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Monday, Sept. 28, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Cwens Seek New Direction
Cwens, sophomore women's honorary organization, is taking a hard look at itself to make sure it is relevant to the University.
"Cwens is not exclusively organized to aid freshman women," said Bev Klauer, Dubuque, Ia., sophomore, president of the organization.
Its purpose is to foster leadership, scholarship and service on the entire University level, Miss Klauer said.
One of the projects is to work with freshman women. This is done by assigning a Cwen to each freshman residence hall wing.
"A freshman woman needs someone older to talk to who is not a counselor, someone who has gone through the same thing fairly recently." Miss Klauer said.
"During the first week of school, it is great to have someone there to help with enrollment problems and answer questions," Peggy Earley, Lake Quivira junior, said. "But, after that there is really very little a Cwen can do to help."
Miss Earley, who was a Cwen last year, said that it was a difficult position to be in.
"I would stop in a room to talk
and there would be no questions and nothing for me to help them with," she said.
Libby Burtis, La Junta, Co., junior, president of Cwens last year, said they discussed changing the freshman program so that Cwens only helped in residence halls for the first few months of school.
"We found we were not needed after the first few weeks." Miss Burtis said. "Any problems after the initial weeks are usually handled by freshman women counselors."
The plan was not adopted
Yale President Retains Position
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI)—Yale University, after an unprecedented canvass of student, faculty and alumni opinion, has decided to renew Kingman Brewster Jr.'s tenure as president of the university, it was announced Sunday.
The Yale Corporation—the university's board of trustees—announced it had unanimously decided to ask Brewster to continue in his post and that the
president had accepted.
The six-month review of Brewster's tenure was undertaken at the president's request and was conducted by a special committee.
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Economics Professor Criticizes U.S. Support in Southeast Asia
By SUSAN MORGAN Kansan Staff Writer
"The United States in Southeast Asia is backing one of the most brutal dictatorships the world has ever known," Harry G. Shaffer, professor of economics, said recently. "Nothing gives us the right to burn villages and kill people because we consider one dictator better than another."
In an interview in his office, Shaffer said the government of South Vietnam in no way represented anything America stood for. The rulers of South Vietnam belong to the same class that has kept the people in
Harry Shaffer
. . 'Vietnam's business'
Southeast Asia in poverty and ignorance since time began, he said.
"The Southeast Asia conflict is unjust and immoral in every aspect," said Shaffer. "For every Vietnamese we kill, we make six more Communists."
He said the United States should give serious consideration to accepting the latest peace proposal from the other side in Paris. The proposal includes a set timetable for withdrawal of American troops, an immediate cease-fire, and the beginning of negotiations concerning the release of prisoners of war, he said.
In Shaffer's opinion, it would be in the best interest of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong to honor the proposal because it would mean the United States would be leaving.
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"The present leadership in South Vietnam wouldn't survive, but that wouldn't be all that bad," Shaffer said. Right now, uppermost in the minds of the Vietnamese people are food and peace, he said.
If the present government of South Vietnam does fall, Shaffer said, a coalition government would probably be established.
"I'm not sure whether they will go Communist, but there is a good possibility that they will," he said.
"If they do, our approach should be similar to our approach in Eastern Europe," Shaffer said. "Their government is their own business. We can only hope that they give the people freedom of thought."
Shaffer said the movement in Vietnam was originally strongly nationalistic, not necessarily Communist. When the United States began to get involved by aiding the South Vietnamese, he said, the Viet Cong were forced to turn to the Communist countries such as Russia and China for military aid.
The South Vietnamese government under Premier Ngo Dinh Diem prevented, with American aid, the elections established by the Geneva agreement of 1854 to unify Vietnam, Shaffer said. The
agreement provided for an all- Vietnamese election to determine how Vietnam would be ruled. Because, as Eisenhower wrote in his memoirs, Ho Chi Minh would have received 80 percent of the vote, the Diem government refused to hold the elections, he said.
According to Shaffer, the Vietnamese people would have voted for Ho Chi Minh not because he was a Communist, but because he was a national hero. He had led the Vietnamese people through two wars—one with the Japanese and one with the French. Shaffer said.
"The people of Vietnam admired him the way Americans admired George Washington," Shaffer said.
This type of problem is not easily reckoned with, Shaffer said. The United States can't easily help in the overthrow of a neighbor country, he said.
It is a mistake whenever the U.S. government backs a military dictatorship in either Asia or South America, he said. "With our backing of a minority government, the majority is forced to turn to countries such as Cuba, Russia or China for aid," he said.
“Yet our support of military dictatorships,” he said, “makes us very unpopular among the populations of such countries.”
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