Thursday, November 21, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Movie depicts life of foreign students
The loneliness and dulness of foreign students' lives in the United States is depicted in the movie "A Dream is a Dream" produced for his master thesis by Ivan H. H. Wong, a graduate student in KU Radio-TV-Film department.
The movie, a semi-documentary, was shot this summer on the KU campus. Wong said it was half a year in the making.
Lasting for 20 minutes, the movie will soon be shown in the Dyche Auditorium, he said.
Wong said he tried to show the central theme of the movie in a first-person narration which starts: "Well, another brand new
'Lin, where are you going?'
In a scene from Wong's film, "A Dream is a Dream," Lin, a foreign student, contemplates his future as an intruder in a strange land.
day begins. A new day means different things for many people. But to me, it's only a copy of the past days.
"I know there are still 172 tree trunks on the way to the campus, and 85 steps to the corner and go right up, I know a few things around here, but I don't know many things about myself.
"How many times I kept asking about myself 'Lin, Where are you? What are you doing?' Well, of course, I am here in the United States. And I am going to school. No, that sounds too obvious for a foreign student. Well, then I must be hunting some kind of fortune in a wonderland. No, that sounds too cynical.
"Then, I suppose I must be in a place I don't know. Well, what difference does it make? There are some times I can hardly tell whether a dream is a reality or the reality is an expansion of the dream."
Despite the fact the film was made on the KU campus and with Chinese students playing the parts, Wong said the film describes the loneliness facing all foreign students throughout the States.
Psychologically, Wong continued, the film is trying to depict how a man reacts to the new surroundings.
"I feel happy that I have the opportunity to show the life of foreign students on screens. I believe most foreign students will share this feeling with me," he said.
Lawsuit charges bias in Pasadena's schools
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—The Pasadena school district is charged with racial discrimination in the first school desegregation suit filed by the Justice Department on the West Coast.
The government asked permission of U.S. District Court Tuesday to intervene in a $775,000 racial discrimination suit filed by three parents and their children.
The Justice Department complaint charged that Pasadena school officials adjusted school zones on a racial basis, causing some schools to enroll more Negro students than under a nondiscriminatory setup.
Pasadena, a suburb of Los Angeles, encompasses the largest Negro community in Southern California outside of Watts.
The government asserted school officials adopted policies that would keep Negro enrollment at predominantly white schools no higher than the percentage of Negro students in the entire system.
Officials assigned most Negro teachers to predominantly Negro schools, the government also charged.
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BONN (UPI)-The world's 10 richest trading nations met in emergency session yesterday to review the crisis over the French france which has shaken the Western monetary system and threatens the stability of the U.S. dollar and British pound.
Many stock and money markets in Western Europe, Africa and Asia were closed in obvious attempts to prevent panicky speculation while efforts are made to resolve the crisis.
While finance ministers and Central Bank governors of the "group of ten," including the United States, gathered behind closed doors, Swiss banking sources predicted complete chaos in the world markets and possibly a panic unless there is another international conference soon to revalue the world's major currencies.
Nations evaluate franc crisis
German border points reported French citizens driving in with suitcases filled with French francs in hopes of converting them into the stronger Deutschmark. But a number of German banks already had imposed ceilings on the purchases of the faltering franc.
The emergency meeting was called by West German Economics Minister Karl Schiller, current chairman of the group of 10. Members are the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Holland, Sweden, Japan and Belgium, also representing Luxembourg with which it has a joint currency system.
In addition, there were observers from neutral Switzerland, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The talks were held in private but informed sources said Schiller appealed for a common solution to the crisis while reaffirming that West Germany will not revalue the mark upwards despite pressures from some circles.
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Schiller blamed inflation in "some countries" he did not name for the current crisis. He
called the crisis a "challenge to all nations" to uphold the 22-year-old international monetary system based on gold, but with the U.S. dollar and British pound sterling as reserve currencies as set up by the Bretton Woods Conference.
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