CWC class to aid Vietnam strike group
By KENNY CUMMINS
Kansan Staff Writer
Members of a course in nonviolence are assisting the Student Mobilization Committee in organizing the Oct.15 war moratorium as part of their "lab" duties for the course.
The three hour non-violence course is being offered this semester to North College students.
Kemp Houck, assistant professor of English and course instructor said one-third of the nearly 40 member class were students from outside of North College
who petitioned to get into the course. Students not enrolled in the course also occasionally attend. he added.
Houck said one of his hopes for the class was the students' involvement in some non-violent activity as the "lab" part of the course, but, he added, this was for each individual to decide.
Some of the class members not working with the Mobilization Committee are participating in the Sunday peace vigil at South park.
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Red Chinese challenges to Russian claims of Sino-Soviet border territories create the most dangerous threat to world peace since Hitler, said Colin Jackson, member of Parliament and British expert on Asian affairs.
Russians, Red Chinese threaten world peace
Jackson addressed an overflow crowd of about 200 law and journalism students Tuesday in Dyche Auditorium.
Jackson, who has just returned from a working visit to East Asia, told the group that there can be little hope for a lasting peace in South Vietnam until more liberal policies are adopted relating to
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moderate South Vietnamese nationalists now in exile or in jail and to all religious groups in the country.
The split between Moscow and Peking is caused not only by
ideological differences and the border conflict, but also by the differences in temperament between the pragmatic Soviet view of socialist expansion and the relative arrogance of the Chinese nation, whose capital city was a thriving trade and cultural center when Moscow was still a muddy village, Jackson said.
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President Nixon's statement on Okinawa in July that the United States will never again interfere in the internal affairs of an Asian nation was welcomed by leaders in that region, he said. Jackson also said that the failure of the attempted communist coup d'etat in Indonesia is encouraging evidence that fears of an easy communist takeover in Southeast Asia are unjustified.
the course has been its meeting places. Classes are held on the hill below the Campanile when weather permits, or in the Kansas Union—Zone X tunnel.
Houck said he prefers the non-classroom setting because "the normal classroom setting influences the way we think and the way the course is taught."
Houck described the two extremes the class might adopt to determine final grades. One possibility was the requirement of written work solely for a grade. The other was petitioning the Chancellor to waive the current grading system and place the course on a pass/no credit basis.
"The University teaches violence by its equal time policy. We are not telling the University to stop teaching this. We are asking them also to teach non-violence," he said.
Houck began planning the nonviolence course about a year ago, he said, as the only avenue open to an instructor who wanted to teach a course outside of his department was the College Within the College program.
An incident occurred at Notre Dame last summer which strengthened Houck's bargaining position. Protesting students presented the university with a list of demands. One of the demands accepted called for the creation of a course in non-violence.
The students are discovering social action which could involve a lifetime of work. Houck said he hoped the students would find a location in the area of nonviolence where a "gap" existed and would concentrate their efforts in that location.
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