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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 28,1968
Concern shown for Biafrans
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participants were accompanied by fellow students playing bongo drums.
"It astonished me," said Howard Kahane, a vigil organizer who stayed the entire night. "I never dreamed people could be so dedicated."
At 3:30 a.m., several students made apligrimage on foot to downtown churches, where they left candles and explanatory notes on the doorsteps.
Throughout the vigil, letter writing tables were functioning in the School of Religion lobby. Students wishing to write their congressmen and presidential candidates were provided with stamps and stationery. More than 530 letters were mailed during the 24-hour period.
Monev Contributed
Money was also contributed.
A total of $325 was donated during the course of the vigil.
The funds, says "Biafra Lifeline"
co-ordinator Judith Kahane, will be sent to relief agencies.
Despite the tension between KU's Nigerian and Biafran students, the vigil passed without violence. There was a close call Friday night, however, when a heated argument erupted between a Biafran and an unidentified Nigerian. The two were separated before they could come to blows.
Soon afterward, the same Nigerian became involved in a heated argument with Mrs. Kahane. The confrontation came to an abrupt end when the Nigerian noticed that his car, illegally parked in front of the Union, was about to be ticketed.
At noon Saturday, the picketers lowered their signs and walked into the School of Religion. The vigil was over.
Mrs. Kahane feels differently. The "Biafra Lifeline" may be over, she says, but the work will continue.
English change is proposed
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over the past two years," Gowen said, "our department will be in trouble by September, 1969."
Gowen said the entire class would meet with a professor only once a week. Teaching assistants would lead smaller discussion and testing groups twice weekly. Students would be graded by the professor in consultation with the teaching assistant.
The proposed plan would maintain some of the smaller sections under qualified assistant instructors who are responsible for signing grade sheets, while also offering sections numbering from 80 to 120 students under a full-time faculty member.
While this system "would assure every student a bonafide, exertioned teacher," Gowen said, it would also provide a training ground for teaching assistants.
Technically, teaching assistants, unlike assistant instructors, are not qualified to sign grade sheets.
Space limitations are the biggest block to immediate institution of the proposal. Gowen said there are about seven classrooms on campus large enough to accommodate proposed large sections. The scheduling of these classrooms is very tight.
"While this is probably just a pipe dream until the completion
of the humanities building in two years," Gowen said, "We hope to put this into operation next year."
Gowen said two other proposals designed to alleviate the teacher shortage and available space squeezes are under discussion.
One would eliminate English 3 and condense material presently covered in the nine-hour requirement into English 1 and 2.
The other would maintain English 3, but would accomplish essentially the same thing by allowing English 1 exemptions.
Gowen gave no forecast on when or if these proposals would be put into operation.
Fave Sianed
HOLLY WOOD (UPI)— Faye Dunaway has been signed for the starring role in "Puzzle of a Downfallen Child" for Paramount.
"It was an encouraging beginning," she says, "but so long as children are dying—only a beginning."
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A side product of this weekend's KU "Biafra Lifeline" was the creation of an original Biafra folk song.
The song, composed and written during the early hours of Saturday morning, is the work of two KU coeds: Nancy Weigand, Wichita sophomore, and Hanna Wallace, Los Angeles freshman. Entitled "Lifeline to Biafra," it asks Americans to show concern rather than apathy toward the guiltless children starving in Africa.
"Lifeline," the girls say, was a spontaneous, spur of the moment idea.
"We wrote the song because we wanted to call attention to the plight of the children," Miss Wallace says.
"Lifeline" was first sung in public at the interfaith service held late Saturday morning. Future performances are planned before religious groups and other interested organizations.
The lyrics for the song go as follows:
Lifeline to Biafra
Lateline to Blair
Biafra, Nigeria, who is wrong, who's
right?
right?
The only thing the children know
is hunger's darkest night.
Biafra, Nigeria, who's to say
right
But we must all the children die.
Children cannot fight.
We the greatest nation in the world today.
Have the power to save these people.
We the greatest nation, food beyond
We the greatest nation, food beyond
our need
Cars can just turn our backs
When staring people plead.
Look around, Americans, search your hearts and know.
Look around, Americans, search your hearts for the treasures. We can’t ignore their plight. Our aid to them must go. Look around, Americans, if you’re
Our aid to them must go.
Look out, around, Americans, if you remember that.
In this age of apathy,
The time to act is NOW.
Open your eyes, America, what's it
will they live or will they die.
going to be Will they live or will they die. It's up to YOU and ME.
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Londoners protest VN war
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an offense.
"The stone is split right down the center," said William Rixon, warden for the national trust which cares for Runnymede.
It was not immediately clear whether the attack on the memorial was connected with the London march.
There had been fears that the demonstration would explode into violence. A similar protest
18 months ago turned into a riot.
One crowd of several hundred marchers chanted "Hurrah, hurrah for LBJ" when they approached the embassy Sunday, but when they were close they suddenly changed their chant to anti-American slogans.
They apparently thought the pro-American ploy might get them through police cordons.
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