University Daily Kansan
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Thursday. Jan. 5, 1961
Rock Chalk Plans Begin
A faculty skit and four fraternity and sorority teams have been selected to present skits in the 1961 Rock Chalk Revue-March 3 and 4.
Skits will be presented by Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Chi Omega; Alpha Tau Omega and Pi Beta Phi; Phi Kappa Psi and Chi Omega and Delta Upsilon and Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech,
will write the faculty skit.
Bob Sanders, a student at Kansas State University, has been hired by the Rock Chalk staff to arrange the skit music and overture.
Last year five sororities and fraternities presented Rock Chalk skits. First place went to Delta Gamma and Alpha Tau Omega. Second place went to Chi Omega and Delta Upsilon.
African Leaders State Unity
CASABLANCA, Morocco — (UPI)
—Leaders of the "Little African Summit" conference who seek to return deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba to power announced today they had reached "complete agreement" on future policy toward the Congo.
Morocco's information minister Moulay Ahmed Alaoui, spokesman for the conference, said the agreement was reached in consultations which began yesterday and continued until the early morning hours of today.
Alaoui said the leaders of the eight delegations here were happy to take note of their complete agreement, but he did not spell out the exact nature of the agreement.
INFORMED sources said the leaders may agree to go along with continued United Nations intervention in the Congo if the world organization modifies its present anti- Lumumba strategy.
The nations represented at the conference contributed about one third of the 19,000-man U.N. force in the Congo, but have either withdrawn their units or have threatened to do so. These nations back Lumumba while the United Nations has favored his rival, President Joseph Kasavubu.
The Congo crisis and the Algerian question topped the conference agenda which also included nuclear explosions in the Sahara, the Palestine question and a proposal for a Pan-African charter.
ATTENDING the conference which opened yesterday were King Mohammed V of Morocco, the presidents of the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea and Mali, Ferhat Abbas, "premier" of the Algerian provisional government, and representatives of Libya and Ceylon.
tine question was added to the agenda at the insistence of U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser whose government considers itself still at war with Israel.
A spokesman said the conference had begun considering the "fundamental principle" which would constitute the projected "charter of a new Africa" proposed by King Mohammed yesterday.
The 10-point plan of African cooperation, based on a policy of nonalignment with big power blocs, calls for the creation of an African consultative assembly and an African committee of member nations. These bodies would meet periodically to coordinate political, economic, cultural and military affairs.
Nachman Aronszajn, professor of mathematics, has received a renewal of his contract with the Office of Naval Research for another year's support of "Studies in Eigenvalue Problems."
Navy Gives Math Contract
Speech Lectures Seen Effective
A recent survey showed that beginning speech courses could be taught on the mass-lecture system without giving up any high quality of instruction.
Kim Giffin, professor of speech and drama, and John Waite Bowers, former KU graduate student and research assistant from Iowa State University, conducted the survey.
The comparison of oral and written examinations between students in the KU speech instruction system now with classes averaging 15 and a mass-lecture system showed almost identical improvement in the students knowledge of speech principles and speaking skill, according to Prof. Giffin.
Break With Cuba May Jar Western Hemisphere Unity
He also said the survey was conducted to find a way to handle the increasing KU speech enrollment without sacrificing the quality of instruction or adding large numbers of faculty members.
Avoid running at all times.— Satchel Paige
Two KU faculty members, experts on Latin American affairs, indicated today that the U.S. diplomatic break with Cuba could cause a greater rift between the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.
"It must be realized that our difficulty with Cuba is a symbol of the overall deterioration of relations between the U.S. and other Latin American countries," said Katherine Nutt, visiting associate professor of history.
Informed sources said the Pales-
"This break suggests the further deterioration or erosion of the concept of the Western Hemisphere community," added Larry L. Pippin, visiting professor of political science, "and may indicate a new alignment in Western Hemisphere affairs."
BOTH AGREED that the implications of the break are not to America's advantage.
"In the event it was Soviet planning, which it could be, the situation could be exploited by the Soviet Union to its advantage," Prof. Nutt said.
"Perhaps they thought this would draw our attention from Laos."
"It is a nuisance to the U.S. that keeps us, in the news and in a bad light before the rest of Latin America. If the events focus on any part of the world, the Soviets are active in another.
PROF. PIPPIN said the break may have been motivated by America's frustration in the Cold War with Russia among other reasons.
"With the danger of losing out in Southeast Asia where we have lesser relations, Cuba is closer at hand and the break was more direct," he said.
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Prof. Nutt said the U.S. had no alternative but to break the 60 year old ties with Cuba.
"Castro has done everything to force this," she said, "and there wasn't much point in our not breaking off when he ordered the reduction of the diplomatic staff to eleven people. This would have been a token staff with which it would have been impossible to operate.
"I THINK he has overplayed his hand and hurt himself diplomatically, not economically, because it is obvious that Cuba has to and intends to sell its sugar elsewhere."
Prof. Pippin speculated that other Latin American countries would not break off relations with Cuba just because the U.S. had.
"It would be pretty hard to break off when they would feel the re-ercussions at home. Venezuela couldn't afford to, nor could Brazil because of the impact on the people."
2 Negroes Register
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — (UPI)— Two 18-year-old Negro youths registered for freshman classes at the University of Tennessee today. They were the first Negroes ever admitted to undergraduate classes at the University.
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