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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 11, 1968
Author views U.S. scene
Along his his other talents, C. P. Snow is an astute observer of the contemporary political scene. This became evident during a brief interview Saturday morning.
Snow, who was at KU for Friday's dedication of the Spencer Research Library, found time to talk about the present world situation.
Despite the election of Richard Nixon, a Republican, to the presidency, Snow seriously questions whether the trend towards centralized government and increasing federal power will be reversed.
"I doubt if any administration is going to make much difference," he said. "It may superficially, but in the major programs, I think it's impossible."
Snow attributed George Wallace's nationwide appeal in the 1968 election to working-class fears of the Negro drive for equality. He compared the Ala-
baman with Enoch Powell, a British Conservative member of Parliament who favors barring colored immigration into Britain.
"He is a very clever man," Snow says of Powell, "but a man of violent emotion, in some ways not unlike Wallace."
Both politicians draw their national support from whites in congested urban areas, he added, especially from workers who fear colored encroachment into jobs and housing.
"I don't think it's going to effect real politics by 1 per cent," he said.
By contrast, Snow had praise for the involvement of youth in this summer's McCarthy movement.
The "New Left" movement holds little fascination for Snow. He characterizes is as a rather trivial letting off of emotion, which will do nothing towards creating a more just world.
Mild earthquake felt slightly here
An earthquake of medium magnitude felt over a 23-state area Saturday had little effect in Lawrence, James A. Peoples, professor of geology, said yesterday.
Peoples said the tremor apparently measured here between 1 and 2 in intensity on the Richter scale, "just above bare detectability." Many Lawrence residents felt the shock, which Peoples said reached here at 11:03.5 a.m.
Peoples said the earthquake was nevertheless "one of the biggest disturbances here in about 10 years." The National Earthquake Information Center measured the magnitude of the shock at its origin in Illinois at 5.5 on the Richter scale, the severest earthquake in the eastern half of the nation since 1944.
The original disturbance apparently occurred about $1\frac{1}{2}$ minutes before the shock hit Lawrence, Peoples said. "I am suspicious that there were two earthquake shocks, spaced about two minutes apart," he said, but evidence to support this view is "very slim."
"I wouldn't like my own country to be without those who contribute the most," he said. "Most people do not doubt that this is the right way to produce the highest academic excellence."
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Snow said one of the main objections to special schools is that psychological disadvantages are created for the gifted students. "This problem is a bogey and not very real," he said.
Snow said other critics claim that special schools produce a privileged, elite class. He admitted that this is true. However, Snow said the end result is worth the social injustice.
Snow warned that this country is neglecting the gifted student.
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C. P. Snow, British author and scientist, told a Hoech Auditörium audience of about 600 that the United States should adjust its educational system to get the most out of its intellectually gifted children.
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Snow's talk last Friday afternoon was the concluding event of the dedication of the Kenneth Spencer Library.
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Richard Reber, pianist, will perform in faculty recital at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall. Murphy Hall.
American Olympic champions "We assume that high athletic gifts are pretty rare among the human race," he said. But people are much less likely to come to the same conclusion about intellectual gifts, he said.
Snow compared the intellectually gifted to a few of the American Olympic champions.
"Social justice and special education do not fit," he said.
"The only way to achieve perfect social justice would be to educate no one at all."
For his recital, Reber will play Mozart's Fantasy, K. 397; Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28, No. 17; Mazurka, Op. 50, No. 3; Nocurte, Op. 62, No. 2 and Sonata, Op. 35.
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