Monday, October 21, 1969
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Small World aims to help foreign wives
By FRED CHAN
Kansan Staff Writer
Women from different countries study, cook and sew together; children speaking different tongues play together. This is Small World.
Small World is a volunteer co-operative designed to help wives of KU foreign students and faculty improve is sponsored every month to interesting spots such as Haskell Institute and local community centers.
Mrs. Jacob Enoch, wife of a KU physics professor, first initiated the idea after returning from Cumana, Venezuela, where her husband was a faculty member at the University of the Oriente.
Realizing the loneliness one experiences in a foreign land, Mrs. Enoch said she and wives of several KU faculty members decided to do something for the foreign women at KU. Together they planned the Small World.
The Small World was put into operation last March. "Response was quick and warm. More than 100 women participated in the program, and they truly enjoyed the experience," Mrs. Enoch said.
"Foreign women usually are isolated in the community while American women like to meet people from different countries. Small World provides the opportunity for them to get together," she said.
Small World meets at Lawrence First Presbyterian Church every Tuesday and Thursday for two hours. A trip is sponsored every month to interesting stops such as Haskell Institute and local community centers.
The only cost is a $1 membership fee and 15-cents for coffee, juice, crackers during each meeting. Mrs. Enoch said.
The current enrollment in Small World includes 61 women from 25 countries as well as 40 American women, she said. Ninety-one children participate.
Philosophy Club meets
Rex Martin, professor of philosophy, will present a paper on civil disobedience at the first meeting of the undergraduate Philosophy Club, Oct. 23.
The club will meet in the Curry Room of the Kansas Union at 7:30 p.m.
24-hour vigil to be held; concern for Biafrans
A 24-hour vigil will be held Fiaidy in front of the School of Religion by students, faculty and other persons concerned with the plight of the starving Biafrans.
The vigil, which is scheduled to last from noon, Friday Oct. 25 to noon the following Saturday, is part of a national "Biafra Lifeline" program to show American concern.
At the same time the vigil is being held, a Bifra teach-in will be conducted in the School of Religion building. The teach-in
KU deans speak to businessmen
Deans Clifford Clark and Frank Pinet of the School of Business will speak in Independence, Mo. today and Bartlesville, Okla., tomorrow.
The Independence audience will consist of businessmen and school officials from southeastern Kansas, Pinet said.
The purpose of the meeting is to introduce Dean Clark to the business community as well as to seek advice for the future plans of the School of Business, Pinet said.
Professors Frank Riley and John Tollefson will accompany the two deans to Bartlesville, where they will visit with executives of Phillips Petroleum Co., Pinet said.
Pinet added that he and Clark plan to make similar trips to several cities in Kansas before Thanksgiving.
During daylight hours, vigil participants will carry signs. After dusk, candles will be lit.
will include films, speakers, discussions and folk music.
Mrs. Judith Kahane, group spokesman, says that in addition to the vigil and teach-in, an information table has been operating in the Kansas Union during the last week.
"Stationary and stamps are provided at the table for those wishing to write their Congressmen or presidential candidates concerning the Biafra situation," Mrs. Kahane said.
KU-Y is also conducting a relief fund drive on campus and other persons are canvassing in the residence halls, she said.
Anyone interested in participating in the vigil should contact persons at the Biafra table in the Union, the KU-Y, their residence hall representative, or their religious student center, Mrs. Kahane said.
Senators Pearson of Kansas and Brooke of Massachusetts have co-sponsored a resolution urging that U.S. transport planes be provided to relief agencies to deliver food, Mrs. Kahane said.
About 50 letters a day are being written at the table in the Union, Mrs. Kahane said, but these are not enough.
"President Johnson must know he has public backing in any American efforts to provide assistance to relief agencies," she said.
Mrs. Kahane says the starvation in war-torn Biafra becomes more widespread with each day.
"Six thousand are dying each day now. If action is not taken soon, thirty thousand will be dying each day by Christmas," she said.
Because of the war, Mrs. Kahane said, no crops have been planted in the embattled region.
"This means that even if the war ended tomorrow, the area would still face a year without any food supply. All food will have to come from outside."
Freshman petitions due
Petitions are now available for freshman class officers and women ASC representatives in the ASC office.
Petitions must be filed by 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, for the election Nov.20 and 21.
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