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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 12, 1957
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
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Thanks From Sweden
(Editor's note: With the help of contributions from University students, Torbjorn Ek, Savsjo, Sweden graduate student was able to fly home to his father's funeral. The following is a letter expressing his thanks.)
Editor:
I am sure I never have had any similar difficulties to express myself in words as I have right now.
I shall try to thank you all who made it possible for me to go home to my father's funeral—but how shall I carry out that intention? I am afraid that there are not any superlatives in my vocabulary big enough to express the thankfulness I feel.
First now afterwards can I fully understand how really important it was for me and my family that I could go. I dare not think how it should have been without your help.
So let some simple words come just directly from my heart: Thank you; thank you very much.
I should always have felt that I probably could have gone if I really had wanted to, but my own career was more important. And who should have taken care of all the problems that arose so suddenly and unexpectedly? Neither my mother nor my two sisters who are both in school were in condition of taking any actions. I now had time to clear up the most urgent things; the rest I hope I can fix from here.
Lots of people at home wanted to hear about America and how it was possible for me to come home.
Never have I heard people express so many sympathies for the United States and its people. Local papers in my home town as well as the biggest newspaper in Scandinavia wrote about your action under such headlines as "The Helpful America."
Many could not believe that there still exists such humanity in our cold world.
A professor at the University of Stockholm under whom I studied before my arrival in the United States said:
"What helpfulness, such humanity! Such a spontaneous action warms my heart more than the many millions of dollars we have got from America in economic help."
He as well as everybody I got into contact with during my stay in Sweden felt very sorry to admit and to confess that such an action as yours probably should never have been taken for a foreign student in Sweden.
But as my professor said:
"We have learned something. Greet the American students very welcome to us."
Once more, for all your help and support, thank you very much, and welcome to Sweden.
—Torbjorn Ek
Recognition-
In the current dispute over granting correspondents visas to Red China, the State Department has defended its refusal by saying that it cannot protect Americans in a country which the U. S. does not recognize. This brings to mind another point: Why not recognize Red China?
Doesn't Red China Exist?
This does not imply, of course, that the U.S. should approve Red China's admittance to the U.N. Recognition means simply acknowledgement of a nation's government, regardless of its "goodness" or "badness." However, in modern diplomacy it has been twisted to mean acceptance of a regime.
One of the main arguments against recognition is that Red China is a Communist state and hence opposed to our capitalistic society. But if recognition means acknowledgement, we should not have to accept Red China's ideological beliefs to recognize it.
It took 17 years for the U.S. to accept the Soviet regime as the "legal" government of Russia. Will the same pattern of useless procrastination be followed in the case of Red China?
The Communists have controlled the mainland of China since 1949. Chiang Kai-shek, then president of the Chinese Republic, refused to surrender his title and retired to the island of Formosa
with several million loyal followers. There for eight years his main concern has been building a military machine to reconquer the mainland.
It is utterly ridiculous to believe he can do this, and even more ridiculous that the U.S. should continue to recognize Nationalist China as the true China. An often proposed solution is to recognize Formosa as one entity and Red China as an entirely different one. It might be a workable solution.
The case also has a paradox. For nearly two years, an American representative has been meeting with a Red Chinese representative in Geneva to negotiate for the release of Americans still held in Red China. By carrying on such talks, is the U.S. not acknowledging the existence of a nation?
The present regime in China is well established, and shows no sign of serious instability. It has taken definite steps to modernize the nation and improve the standard of living. It is accepted by the Chinese and nearly every other nation.
Great Britain has a solid policy on recognition. If a certain group shows itself to be in control of the government, it is promptly recognized as the legitimate government. This policy is worthy of study by the U. S.
—Felecia Anne Fenberg
... Letters ...
An Answer
Man in his lowest common denominator is a mixture of gases and minerals, of carbon and water. A step further, man is an organism with a system which permits him to react to certain stimuli.
On a more elevated plane, he is completely separated from the rest of the animal kingdom by his powers of imagination and faculties for reasoning. Man is the only animal that laughs, cries, loves and cooks.
The Group for the Improvement of Human Relations is doing its best to correct this anomaly. As long as its conciliatory methods are of quiet persuasion, it should be commended for it, and it should receive our support.
It is unfortunate that man should misuse the faculties with which he _was endowed by his Creator, when he begins to discriminate among his fellowmen on the basis of race, color, or creed.
It does not matter if man is tall or short, fat or thin, beautiful or ugly, white, black, yellow, blue or green; he is not an animal, nor is he a mere machine, and he certainly is something more than so many pounds of meal in motion.
Mike Cardenas
Mike Cardenas
Chihuahua, Mexico
Graduate student.
Editor:
Not Yell Author
A story in the University Daily Kansas March 7 concerning myself gives me the credit for having devised the official yell of the School of Engineering and Architecture. This is the "hyperbolic paraboloid" yell, familiar to all engineering students and graduates.
We always wound up matters with a "hyperbolic paraboloid." Perhaps this explains how many people attribute the authorship of the yell to me.
I hope that my letter may assist in clearing up this misunderstanding and that you will publish it in your paper with that thought in mind.
I have always been told that Frank O. Marvin, the first dean of the school, was the author of this vell. I know that I had no part in it.
In earlier years I was often called upon to lead the group singing at school functions, and I made it my custom to call for the "Crimson and Blue" and a University yell at the close of the festivities.
Frank L. Brown Professor of applied mechanics
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