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University Daily Kansan Monday. March 13, 1961
Booming Brazil Still Backward, Faculty Told
It is difficult for Brazil to change from an underdeveloped country to one of heavy industry, Seymour Menton, associate professor of Romance languages, said at the Faculty Club last night.
"Transportation of raw materials is difficult because the coal is in the central part of the country and the iron ore is in the northern section." he said. "The mountains make it almost impossible to transfer one product to the other area for processing."
Brazil is larger than the United States, excluding Alaska, he said, but only one-third of the area is inhabited.
SIXTY-MILLION PEOPLE are
Self-Rule-
(Continued from page 1) with a question mark, and it is true that we wonder about her test of truthfulness and equality for democracy," he answered.
"It is heartwarming to know that your people are taking the initiative to try to solve the situation."
"We have been asked about the stability of our one-party state." Kyei said, exposing a new topic for discussion.
"We have to have this system in order to unite," he said. "You cannot judge African democracy by your system of democracy.
"THIS IS TRUE in Nigeria too," Okediji said. "Under the colonial system of power, we owed direct allegiance to the king. Consequently, if the people are happy and their needs are provided for, we do not feel there is a problem to consider in terms of the one-party system."
A member of the audience asked the students about their reaction to the death of Congolese Premier Patrice Lumuba.
"Africans felt bad about the death of Lumumba," Kyei said. "He was not pro-consist. He was a Catholic, and he was shot while praying."
"Lumumba was a hero," Okediji explained. "He was a symbol of African solidarity and unity. All of Africa was upset over the death of this man."
Class Officers-
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ey, Kiowa; secretary, Gretchen Lee,
Hays, Lois Reynolds, Hays, and
Sharon Graves Logan; treasurer,
Wayne Bruning, Robinson; Carolyn
Toews, Inman, and Jenelyn Hedlund,
Overland Park.
Sophomore class: President, James Christian, St. Louis, Mo. and John Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla.; vice president, Kenneth Carlson, Kansas City, Mo., and Thomas Hyland, Washington; secretary, Mary Reeves, Oberlin; Lana Farobi, Pittsburg, and Kay Consolver, Wichita; treasurer, Dennis Rice, Prairie Village, Martha Shirley, Mankato, and David Stanton, Atchison.
Crackdown Inside Jail
LONDON — (UPI) — The Prison Officers Association, the union for British jail guards, has urged that metal food trays be replaced in prisons, on grounds that prisoners can use the trays as weapons.
PHILADELPHIA-NEW YORK EXPRESS
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concentrated mostly in large cities" Prof. Menton said. "There are over a dozen cities of more than 200,000 inhabitants, but there is no middle class. The people are very wealthy or very poor."
Prof. Menton said the lack of a middle class was due to the lack of industry.
"Land owners are the wealthy class, and the laborers make up the lower class," he said.
The country is highly illiterate" he said. "Only a few students go to high school and fewer graduate from college."
PROF. MENTON illustrated his speech with slides he took while he was studying South American literature in Brazil last year.
He showed the experimental architectural forms the Brazilian contractors are using.
"Since the cities are expanding so rapidly, it is not surprising to see an old church beside a modern hotel," he said.
"In the large cities of Brazil, the problems of traffic and slum areas are great," he said.
Prof. Menton said many beaches are being filled and highways built there to lighten the downtown traffic.
"There are always one or two streets where cars are not allowed," he said. "The street is reserved for pedestrians."
"BRAZILIANS LOVE the modern art form," he said. "It is reflected in their museums, their parks and their buildings."
"Brazil is a beautiful country to visit," he said. "The city of Sao Paulo is probably the prettiest in the world. It is surrounded by mountains. The sea is a deep blue and almost everywhere you walk you see the mosaic sidewalks."
Wilson Awards-
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ton; Mrs. Louanna Cole Simmons,
Raytown, Mo., German, Texas;
David E. Sutherland, Baton Rouge,
La., Sociology, Cornell; Joseph B.
Waterhouse, Dodge City, Philosophy,
Stanford.
MORRISON WILL attend Oxford University in England as a Rhodes scholar. His Woodrow Wilson fellowship can be held for him.
The 13 KU seniors who won honorable mention are:
David K. Anderson, Riverton; Carolyn Caskey, Independence, Mo.; Edward G. Collister, Lawrence; Nancy Craven, Hillsdale; Barbara Foley, Lawrence.
Mrs. Therese D. Ruhmann, Lawrence; Sarah Seevers, Wichita; Neal R. Wagner, Topeka.
Dennis E. Hayes, Mission; John L. Hodge, Kansas City; John H. Jewell, Garden City; Dorothy R. Jones, Frankfort; Angie Magnusson, Wichita.
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor than a critic. —Winston Churchill
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