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The Negro Scholar-2
"The cultural and intellectual blight produced by such a widespread, wholesale effort to destroy the personality and the dignity of the Negro is impossible to measure. One can merely survey it, describe it, and get some sense of the effect of such experiences on the Negro as a person, to say nothing of the effect on him as a would-be scholar.
"A course in, say, American institutions and values, or one even in American history, well taught, starts even an ordinarily gifted Negro student to begin considering his own situation, and it doubtless puts a bright young Negro on edge. Freedom, equality, democracy, tolerance, enfranchisement, participation—all these things suddenly begin to take on some specific meaning to him, and he begins to see himself in a new and different light. At best it is distracting. At worst it is traumatic. In any case it starts him thinking about himself and the society that does certain things to him, and he is drawn, to some extent, from his main scholarly activities."
"There is one other major consideration that constitutes an important factor in the state of scholarship in the Negro school and college. It has to do with the growing awareness on the part of the young Negro student of his status and his increasing concern with it. The new experiences he begins to have in college, or even high school, awaken in him a keen sense of the intellectual privations and the cultural blight of his earlier life. Education often begins for him a great new search into the nature of the social order and his place in it.
"It goes without saying that his (the Negroe's) basic training has been inadequate, and this has made it extremely difficult for him to pursue advanced training. His motivation has been destroyed or seriously impaired since he has come from a home that society has dehumanized and has looked toward a future that is indeed dark as far as intellectual growth is concerned. His appreciation for the better things of the mind and spirit has been numbered by the battle he has had to wake for physical survival in a world that even insisted on purchasing his labor on the basis of race instead of ability or competence. How could there emerge from such a culturally disadvantaged group any considerable number of talented persons whose prognosis for significant academic achievement was promising? This constitutes a major tragedy, perhaps the major tragedy, in American life...
"Perhaps he just thinks and gives to this matter little time or attention that is taken from what his main pursuit should be. But, perhaps, he is so oppressed by the very contemplation of his degraded status that he turns much of his attention and energy to it. It could be a W.E.B. Du Bois, who fretted over it, and then turned from his main intellectual interests to devote seventy years to a struggle that ended in despair and disillusionment. It could be a North Carolina student perched on a stool at a lunch counter in a five and ten cents store where he could not eat; perhaps he would then spend five, ten years, perhaps his life—perhaps give his life—in the effort to discover himself in relation to the society of which he is a part.
"These observations seem to suggest that if the problem of the discovery and encouragement of the academically talented in the United States is, under ordinary conditions, a difficult and complex one, it is especially difficult and incredibly complex where Negroes are concerned. It would seem that any effort for the planning and maintaining of programs for superior Negro students must be mindful of these difficulties and complexities...
"The young Negro genius, if he knew himself, would cry out to his country to utilize his talents for the enhancement of the position of his country. He has neither the voice nor the understanding to assert himself. That is the responsibility that we must assume. If we do, there will, in due time, rise up among us new giants in the land, strong in mind and heart, and dedicated to achieving for the benefit of everyone the things they have hitherto found it almost impossible to achieve."
(This is the final excerpt from an address by John Hope Franklin, "To Educate All the Jeffersonians," published in the April, 1960 issue of The Superior Student.)
Official Bulletin
French Ph.D. Reading Examination.
Saturday, January 7, 9 to 11 a.m., Room
11, Fraser. Give books to Miss Craig.
Fraser 120 by noon on January 5.
Language proficiency examinations in French. German, Latin & Spanish will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 7. Register with appropriate departmental language Latin, 213 Fraser; German, 210 Fraser; French, 206 Fraser; Spanish, 205 Fraser.
TODAY
Geology Department Lecture. 4 p.m.
242 Lindley Hall, Dr. Charles L. Drake.
Speak on "Structure of the Continental
Margin of Northeastern America."
Medical Dames. 8 p.m. Parlor C, Kansas, Union, Bridge
Jay Janes, 5 p.m. Room 306, Kansas Union
Dome, 8 p.m.
Epicapish Evening Prayer. 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Catholic Daily Mass. 6:30 a.m. St John's Church, 13th & Kentucky.
Episcopal Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Breakfast follows 8:35 a.m.
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JIM'S CAFE 838 Mass. GOOD FOOD DAY and NIGHT
am 5. Januar um 5:00 Uhr, 502 Fraser.
Umsersch期 program: Das Jawhayk Theater "Die Fahrenden Schueler" zeight: "Amerikaner in Deutschland," Stueck in zwei Akten aufgefuhrt von den welbekanten Berufsauspielern in Deutschen Berufserudolf Kerscher. Abendesen in der Mensa. Alle herzlich eingeladen.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7:30
p.m. 829 Mississippi Bible study and
informal discussion. Refreshments.
Call VI 2-0224 for more information or a ride.
Tickets for the Experimental Theatre production of "Anna Christie" by Eugene O'Neill are available beginning today at the Fine Arts ticket office in Murphy Hall.
Humanities Lecture, 8 p.m. Fraser Theatre,
Chair of the Classics
*bcture* for Preparation for a Profession'.
'Anna Christie' Play Tickets Are on Sale
Jewish Religious Services, 7 p.m. Danforth, Channel
FRIDAY
The production will run Monday to Jan. 14. Students may obtain tickets at half price with their ID cards.
for which it acquired treaty rights in 1903.
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Cubans Push Hate Drive
The political blow to the American residents of Cuba was far exceeded by the human impact on the thousands of Cubans seeking to flee Cuba and seek political asylum in the United States from the regime of Premier Fidel Castro.
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THE BREAK IN relations caught the Embassy with an estimated 52,000 visa applications pending for final action. They have been processed at the rate of a thousand a week in recent months, but these were handled by a force of 11 U.S. consuls and a host of Cuban aides, and the Cuban cutback in the embassy staff size forced an immediate halt of the issuance of visas.
Balfour
Some 200 men and women turned away from the embassy yesterday when the visa office closed reappeared this morning and seemed incredulous when they realized the huge glass doors would not again open .
The Castro explanation that the staff reduction was ordered to halt "spying" failed to convince many Cubans. One angered waiter, a former union leader, shouted at a handful of people at breakfast "Americans get a free cup of coffee from a true Cuban here. Let the Russians pay for it."
A CAB DRIVER who dropped off a couple seeking to pick up the visas for which they had earlier applied exclaimed "they (the Cuban government) have gone crazy" when he learned of the Castro order to reduce the embassy staff.
"How are our people going to seek freedom" he asked. "The Americans need a big (embassy) staff just as Cubans would need one in the U.S. for exit visas, if you had a Castro there."
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The faces of visa applicants at the embassy were tearstained and drawn. Friendly embassy staff members came out on the streets repeatedly to urge them to "please go home, for your sake. There is really no hope of your getting a visa."
Wednesday. Jan, 4. 1961 University Daily Kansan
Francis Heller, professor of political science, and associate dean of the College, will review "The Wastemakers," by Vance Packard at the Modern Book Review Forum at 4 p.m. today in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Heller to be Speaker At Book Review
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BRUSSELS, Belgium—(UFI) —A slogan-shouting crowd of 10,000 strikers marched through Brussels again today, smashing windows of banks and stores and howling for the resignation of Catholic Premier Gaston Eyskens.
For the second straight day the government massed paratroopers, tanks, armored cars, and mounted and foot police to guard against a new reported march on parliament by militant leftist-led strikers.
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At the same time, socialist opposition deputies in a stormy parliamentary session called on Eyskens to quit and hold new general elections in this strike-bound country.
The demonstrators, carrying banners and chanting "Eyskens resign" and "Eyskens to the gallows," marched in a column 12-deep through the main downtown streets.
Bookstore Rebate Shows Decrease
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Mr. Newcomb explained that the students still are receiving the benefits of their 10 per cent dividend, for the 3 per cent deducted from the cash refund will be re-channeled into another area of Union services.
"KANSAS UNIVERSITY is rather unique in its policy of refunding part of the student's college expense through the bookstore," Mr. Burge commented. "The only other such plan that I'm familiar with is the Harvard Cooperative Association."
"The total pack of services offered by the Union necessitated the action taken," Mr. Burge said. "We feel positive that students will receive the benefits of the 3 per cent they have invested in the Union."
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They set off firecrackers and booed police guarding main intersections. When the column passed one big bank a hail of rocks and steel bolts smashed 24 windows.
One socialist speaker in parliament angrily waved his fist at Eyskens and demanded his resignation. This set off an uproar, and was followed by another when another socialist deputy charged that he and three other socialists had been held at rifle point by three armed gendarmes.
In the country as a whole, the situation was calm. The strike situation generally was static, with an estimated 500,000 workers still idle,
Socialist-led workers in Brussels department stores joined the walk-out today, but they appeared to have very little effect. Police prevented pickets from bothering shoppers, and only about 20 to 30 per cent of the workers were absent from their jobs. All big Brussels department stores remained open as usual.
Prof. McKinney to Be Lecturer in Ohio
Ross E. McKinney, professor of civil engineering, will be guest lecturer at a conference on "Bio-Oxidation of Industrial Wastes" to be held Jan. 16-20 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service. Prof. McKinney has been studying biological waste treatment for 10 years on grants from the Public Health Service.
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