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University Daily Kansan Monday. Dec. 3. 1956
Refugee Students Look To Free World For Aid
—(Reprinted with permission from Life Magazine) YOUTH AIDS CAUSE — 15-year-old boys like Pal Pruck, pictured above, take an active part in the Hungarian uprising against Communism.
Hungarian students, who recently underwent a murderous reprisal for daring to question the authority of their Communist rulers, now look to the free world for vindication of their sacrifice.
American students, who have never had their beliefs in freedom tested by Russian machine guns and mortars in their country, can, by contributing to the Hungarian relief fund drive, show the oppressed their fight for freedom was not in vain.
Singing and shouting "solidarity" with Poland, participants in a student demonstration in late October began the riots and civil war against Communist agression which left Hungary in chaos.
Inspired by Poland's stand against the Soviet Union, the fearless students marched through Budapest's streets to present their demands to Radio Budapest.
During the march one youth mounted the pedestal of the bronze monument to Alexander Petofi, poet-patriot, and repeated his words: "By the God of our Hungary, we shall be slaves never more."
Some of the rioters were killed, other were captured, and still others fled into hiding in Hungary or into free countries.
A recent report from Budapest said that more than 1.500 students from Sarospatak college are waging guerrilla warfare against the Russians. Sources say these students can hold out indefinitely because they have plenty of food, the protection of wild and broken country, and a few shells for anti-tank guns which they captured by getting Soviet soldiers drunk.
Students are part of the more than 100,000 refugees who have escaped to Austria and other free countries. The refugees, some of whom are still braving minefields and Soviet fire to cross the Iron Curtain border, fled from their war-torn homeland with few personal possessions and some in need of medical care.
These refugees are the ones who look to the free world, to the United States, for help. Money is needed for food, clothing, and medical supplies.
Tonight when the cartons are passed at the halftime of the basketball game and when the donations are collected Tuesday-and Wednesday. University students should give generously to show the young freedom fighters that they are not being ignored by the young men and women of America.
Jane Pecinovsky
Emergency Drive To Begin At Game Half-Time Tonight
Tonight during the half-time of the KU-Northwestern game the Allen Field House lights will be dimmed...Ralph Varnum, Kansas City, Mo., junior and ASC Campus Chest chairman, will come onto the floor and introduce Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism... Prof. Telfel, a native of Hungary, will describe briefly the recent Hungarian uprising...en appeal for support will be made while members of the Junior Panhellenic council distribute cartons to the audience...
Thus, simply but dramatically will begin one of the most unique fund campaigns ever attempted: the $500 emergency drive for the refugee Hungarian students whose demonstrations began the revolt for LIBERTY.
"It is hard to realize that these students are people like ourselves." Varnum said. "They are working for freedom and they are looking to us for support and guidance. It is
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Jane Pecinovsky
Managing Editor
a challenge to us, and we must meet it."
The drive will run through Wednesday. Student Union Book Store rebate receipts will be collected at organized houses and their returns added to the fund. Booths located at prominent places on the campus will also take donations.
The money collected will be sent to the World University Service in New York and from there will be dispatched to its Geneva headquarters for distribution among Hungarian refugee students in Austria.
Already over 1,300 students have fled from Hungary into Austria and have set up camps near the border. Since they brought only what they could carry on their backs, they need immediate resources to tide them over the emergency.
"It will be used to provide basic needs such as clothing, food, shelter, first aid and textbooks for the students." Varnum said.
American students have shown a tremendous response in aiding these students, according to the WUS. Contributions have been announced by schools throughout the country and most of the money has been raised in spontaneous demonstrations and rallies called by the students.
To meet this need the WUS several weeks ago sent out an appeal to United States universities and colleges for financial support.
Five hundred dollars might seem like a small contribution for a university with so large a student body, but as Varnum said: "We hope to go over the goal."
Editor:
.. Letters ..
I am not certain on which side of the integration fence Mr. Webb stands—perhaps he is among the many "fence-sitters." However, I consider it little short of a mockery on democracy to suggest that a non-white has "freedom of choice" in joining fraternities when certain fraternities have constitutional principles forbidding non-white entry.
Mr. Webb states "exclusiveness is not undemocratic as long as it doesn't deny anybody's right." Equality of opportunity is certainly a basic tenet of American democracy and it would appear to me that one's opportunities were considerably cramped if he is, in effect, barred from entering the door of fraternity admission without even being granted the opportunity to knock.
Fence-sitting is a rather awkward state of being—physically and mentally. Why Not jump down on one side or the other? Surely, being a journalist, you have strength of your convictions.
(Editor's note:
Frederick Farnsworth Topeka junior
The idea of the editorial was to show that the person is better off if he didn't attempt to join an organization which has rules against his race or creed.
You said it was "a mockery on democracy to suggest that a nonwhite has a freedom of choice in joining fraternities." However, the president of Tau Kappa Epsilon at Colgate University is a Negro.
Rebate Receipts Will Be Accepted
You can support the Hungarian relief drive by donating your Student Union Book Store rebate receipts. Rebate receipts will be collected at organized houses tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday.
You are absolutely correct about the situation here. But, my belief is that the situation will change in the future. I feel that when a person fights to join a private organization which bars him, he is making a sad mistake.)
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