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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 23, 1968
Apathetic people featured in film
By RUTH RADEMACHER
Kansan Staff Writer
Credits flash across the screen and the camera focuses on the faces of men in the slums of a large American city. The city is New York but the faces and the slums could be found in any large American city.
These are the faces of men with nothing to do and no place to go. They are the unwanted and the lonely.
The faces are grizzled, dirty. We do not like to look at people who are miserable, says the narrator. He is right. Looking at these faces is unpleasant.
"Superfluous People," a film presented yesterday in the Kansas Union Forum Room as part of National Affairs Week has many scenes—this is one of them.
The scene changes and the faces also change. The audience finds itself in a large metropolitan hospital.
Here are the cute but unsmiling faces of children, many of them infants. They are the unwanted and the lonely.
There are more than 2,000 children in New York hospitals right now, waiting for someone to love them. The faces are pleasant to look at, but thinking about their destiny is not pleasant.
A baby that grows up in a hospital is usually apathetic, says a welfare worker. A baby needs close physical contact, she says. No matter how nice the hospitals, the personnel cannot give the proper amount of attention.
Many of these cute faces will become delinquents or mental cases. They need love. Look at the faces, but don't think about their destiny. It is unpleasant.
The scene changes again. This
time back to the slums of the city, but there are different faces.
Faces with nothing to do and no place to go. Not dirty, grizzled, old men, but America's young men. They are the unwanted and the lonely.
These are the faces of people who do not have the opportunity to participate in the "American Dream" which is so deeply ingrained in our society, says another welfare worker.
There are no jobs, no money,
no chances for a better life.
These young men are on their
way to becoming dirty, grizzled
old men. Looking at them is
unpleasant.
Another scene change. An old lady stares out from the screen. Unwanted and lonely.
The new neighborhood looks much like the one she left—probably next in line for urban renewal. The difference—she knows no one here. Old ladies don't make new friends easily, she tells us.
An old lady. One of thousands of old ladies who have been displaced because of urban renewal projects. She had lived in the same neighborhood all her life. At the age of 80 she was forced to move.
This old woman spends most of her time alone in her apartment. She has no friends. She has had four serious illnesses since her relocation. She is waiting to die. Thinking about this is unpleasant.
The film ends asking, "Should an affluent society contain so many superfluous people?"
Seven people found time to look at these unpleasant faces.
Outside in the lobby of the Kansas Union, a crowd had gathered to watch the Olympics on color television.
Fashion show planned
People-to-People will sponsor an international fashion show at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom. It will feature costumes modeled by KU international students.
Held in conjunction with a downtown women's apparel shop the show is free and open to the public.
The fashion show is being held to promote international understanding and cultural exchange among American and foreign students, said Kathy Alexander, Pratt senior and P-to-P publicity chairman.
Countries represented in fashions will be England, France, Scandanavia, Japan, Korea, as well as winter fashions from the Village Set in Lawrence worn by members of People-to-People.
Mark Edmonds, Lawrence senior, will provide the musical accompaniment. Kathy Delp, Topeka junior, and Cricket Appel, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, are the coordinators for the show.
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Albert Ravenholt, specialist on Far Eastern political affairs is speaking at KU this week.
Ravenholt is sponsored by the American Universities Field Staff and the political science department.
Far East expert to talk this week on political affairs
ALBERT RAVENHOLT
AUFS speaker at KU
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He has studied Far Eastern affairs since the beginning of World War II when he served in China, Burma, India, Indochina and the Phillipines as a correspondent. In 1946, as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, he spent a year at Harvard University in advanced study of Far Eastern History and affairs.
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In 1948 he returned to China and for more than two years observed the changes in Chinese society as the Communists solidified their control of the mainland. His work during that period also took him to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Phillipines.
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A church official told 45 members of the Kansas Camping Conference that camping is learning to live with others.
Camp life involves learning to live with other people
Rev. Glenn R. Johnson, Associate State Minister of the Kansas Council of Churches was the keynote speaker for the seventh annual Camping Conference in the Kansas Union Kansas Room yesterday.
"When we begin to do everyday tasks together, we learn to live with people," Mr. Johnson said. A camping situation provides an opportunity for persons who do not know each other, to work together and to grow together.
Both the camp and the community mold a child and his future dealings with his environment, Mr. Johnson said.
Mr. Johnson compared a camp to a community—both physically and emotionally.
Mr. Johnson said, the individual learns to use his freedom within the group. He learns not to play his guitar or scream loudly in the middle of the night
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because of others who are close and trying to sleep, but he learns to distinguish freedom and lack of discipline. Mr. Johnson said.
Music students in recital tonight
The annual conference, for camp administrators and personnel was sponsored by the University Extension, the American Camping Association, Inc., the Kansas Council of Churches, and the KU department of physical education and recreation.
Nine KU music students will perform in the School of Fine Arts Honor Recital at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The students were selected by the faculty as a result of "superior performance" during previous recitals, the School of Fine Arts office said.
Performing will be Barbara Jean Vigil, Osage City senior, soprano, and Robert Benton, Des Moines, Iowa, senior, baritone, singing as a duet; Marquita Meeks, Kansas City sophomore, violinist; Nancy Watson, Kansas City, Mo., senior, pianist; Tracy Weidman, Lawrence junior, flutist; and a string quartet consisting of Robert Waugh, Derby junior, violinist, Ann Marshall, Atchison sophomore, violinist, James Francis, Fresno, Calif., sophomore, viola, and Jay Finlayson, Omaha, Neb., junior, cellist.
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