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Wednesdav. February 12, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Class examines '30s depression
By JOHN CRICHTON Kenson Staff Reporter
A new University of Kansas history class is offering students a close look at the life of slavery.
The class, Hard Times - The Depression Years in America, 1929-1941, is an in-depth examination of the great depression and its people.
people. There is a lot of interest in the experience of the '38s because we are entering a period of hard times," John Clark, professor of history, said recently.
Lark teachs Hard Times along with four other history professors: David Katzman, Donald McCoy, William Tuttle and Theodore Wilson.
Clark said the course was designed to give students a close-up and detailed view of the depression rather than the overview students usually get from a general history.
During the semester, the professors will present lectures on how the New Deal affected farmers, laborers, artist and minority groups.
Katzman said, "You can't understand the society without understanding the deeper problems."
"We want to look at the impact of the depression, the effects it had on people and their towns and cities and how these people responded to it," Clark said.
"You and I were brought up in a world that was dominated by a great search for economic security. People in the '40s, '50s and '60s thought if they could achieve
economic security, all other problems would solve themselves. You can't understand that without understanding the effects of depression."
Clark said that in trying to understand the depression, one had to look at the programs involved and learn how they came about. He pointed out that the social security was a compromise proposal.
One can get a better perspective on some of the myths that have evolved in American politics by closely examining the depression, Katzman said.
"One myth was that centralized government programs failed," he said. "In many cases, it was an error."
Both Katzman and Clark agreed that most students were aware of the depression.
"People don't have the same attitude toward money today," Clark said. "They just don't know what it is like not to have money, something they ought to put into effect."
Katzman said, "College students today expect that there will be a job waiting for them, but now there is a kind of irritation that it may not be the job they want. In the '30s were no jobs. People lost their faith in the system.
By 1942 people had more money than they had ever had in their lives. Clark said.
"Retrospectively, it seems to me that it would have been better for us to struggle with the '30s' community spirit. "All the community spirit that you can see building up in the '30s was wiped out with a
There are 160 students enrolled in Hard Times; Katzman said he hoped that they learned an intellectual lesson and were affected emotionally. He also wants them to know things that will help him apply applications for the increasingly hard times in the '70s.
rush of prosperity. The war came and manu-
factured those that were paused, not neve-
r were never.
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A Women's Self-Defense course is geared to all of the above. The class consists of ten sessions one hour each, two week
Class Number
1 Ferries from and counters to frontal choke holds.
2. Escapes from rear choke holds. The front kick,
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2 Exeps from rear choke hold. The front kick.
3. Escape from and counters to attacks and holds from the rear. The back kick.
6. Dellera when you are on the ground and your opponent is sitting on you, laying on you, standing at your feet, standing to either side or standing by your head.
4. The back kick continued. Spinning hand strikes. Review
5. How to use an umbrella or short stick as a weapon.
1. Repeat.
7. The roundhouse kick, Defenses from a seated position or
introduction to the Nutchake
6. Defenses when you are on the ground and your
10. Miscellaneous.
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