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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 20, 1968
Sign of the times?
Madame Pandit asks for peace, world unity
Madame V. L. Pandit, sister of the late Prime Minister Nehru of India, yesterday challenged KU students to search for world unity, labeling it "the greatest of all problems."
"Not a unity superimposed or forged in times of crisis, but a lasting unity which emerges from understanding."
The former United Nations General Assembly president told 300 persons in the Kansas Union Ballroom that instead of unity today, there exist small areas of conflict. "Democracies must consider themselves leaders and collect people together." The 68-year-old diplomat cited the United Nations as unsuccessful recently in avoiding conflict because of the rising number of deaths and destruction of values and ideas.
Referring to the opening statement of the UNESCO charter, Madame Pandit said wars begin in the minds of men. She added it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace and a search for unity must be met.
"Until peace is made as glamorous as war; until peace is the great challenge of our times and people aren't allowed to die, we won't build peace in men's minds."
The Indian ambassador called for the artificial boundaries of superstition between men to be replaced with patience, tolerance and recognition of the necessity of differences.
"What we need are alert, thoughtful leaders to anticipate and control events. Because people don't want to face reality, more and more issues remain unsolved."
Madame Pandit explained that she likes young people because they look to the positive side of things. "While most people think too much in terms of the negative, youth know what they believe and what they would like to do."
In a question-answer session later, Madame Pandit says she
sees prospects for a Middle East settlement as dim, explaining that a solution "will require more statesmanship and probing of viewpoints."
Madame Pandit's KU lecture, sponsored by the International Club, is one of several American lecture engagements. She has served two terms in the Indian Parliament resigning in September 1968. The well-traveled diplomat was president of the 8th session of the U.N. General Assembly in 1953 and was appointed India's representative at the funeral of the late President John F. Kennedy.
'Review' posts 'Bumblepuppy' signs
The sounds of words have connotations all their own.
"Raspberry" is a jazzy word;
"slice" a cold one.
Bumblepuppy is a warm word, and since signs bearing the word appeared mysteriously earlier this week, it has been a mysterious word.
Kenneth Irving, Rochester, Minn., senior and editor of the "Cottonwood Review." KU's literary magazine, said last night the signs may have been tacked on the campus' trees and hallway walls by a member of his staff.
"The main thing about it is, it's a nice warm word," he said.
He declined to comment on the reason the signs had been posted but would not deny they might be tied into a publicity campaign by the Cottonwood staff
The unabridged edition of Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines bumblepuppy as, "the old game of nineholes," "whist (a card game) played poorly or without regard for rules."
Irving said the persons who
Thefts reported
A $120 stereo tape player, and two bicycles valued at $15 and $75 were reported missing recently.
James Lee Davis, Springfield, Mo., junior, reported his stereo tape player missing from his car early Monday morning.
Raymond Ho, graduate student,
reported his bicycle was taken from Lindley Hall, Saturday.
the Mizzou Tigers. Maybe it should read straight. Humble the pupv (tiger). "
"It could be the English department in protest over the proposed moving of the business office to the vacated space in the library," guessed another student.
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Two students came closest to the probable intention of the signs, the first suggesting, "It could be a shout of elation."
"It's kind of spooky," said one student, "that it should appear and no one knows anything about it."
Meanwhile, KU students puzzled over the meaning of the inscrutable word.
Another student thought the signs might be an art student's protest.
Further from the still-shadowed truth was one student who said, "It could be a slam against
The other said, "That could be the whole purpose of it—to make people wonder."
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