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Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No. 70
WEATHER CLOUDY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
See Weather—page 3
Wednesday, January 18, 1967
Taiwan student 'army' may be recalled to duty
By STEVE RUSSELL Assistant Managing Editor
There's a small army of Nationalist Chinese reservists at KU. In fact, there's one on every U.S. college campus where there are Chinese students from Taiwan.
According to Wei Pang Kao, Taiwan graduate student and president of KU's Chinese Student Association, every Chinese male student from Taiwan could be recalled to serve in the Nationalist Chinese army.
"IF THE GOVERNMENT, at any time, decides they need us, then we should go home to serve." Kao said.
Kao explained that every male college student in Taiwan must serve two years in the Nationalist Chinese army, i.e., one year of training and one year of regular service. He fulfills his year of training during his four years of college study in a program similar to U.S. ROTC. Kao said.
Upon graduation the student must then serve his remaining year of regular duty. After this he is listed as a "reserve" member of the army who must respond if and when his government should call him back to duty.
KAO ESHIMATED about 50 of the 100 members in KU's Chinese Student Association would be affected by such a call-up. He said about 70 are from Taiwan and about 50 of these are men.
Kao could not say what the chances are that he and his fellow countrymen might be called up, but he left no doubt of the possibility.
"It all depends on the political situation, and that's very hard to predict.
"IT IS POSSIBLE they will need us to add to the man power," he said. "They especially need officers, and we are all officers in the Taiwan reserves since we had to serve two years in the army before we came to the U.S. I am a second lieutenant in the reserves."
"Some people of Taiwan came from China mainland and they want to go back. They have waited a long time and they think this is a good chance. This is what I read in letters and hear from friends," he said.
Kao said that some people on Taiwan are excited over the present power struggle on the mainland.
"WE WILL BE GLAD to go back to our father land and fight the mainland with our friends and relatives if we are called. That's the duty of every citizen."
Kao said that the present riots on the mainland lead him to think there might be a chance to re-conquer the mainland.
He said the people of Taiwan realize that Mao (Tse-tung) has
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Sara Bly is elected as Pan-hel president
Sara Bly, Arkansas City junior, was elected president of the Panhellenic Council last night at the President's council meeting in the dean of women's office.
Miss Bly is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. She is majoring in mathematics and will work toward a master's degree in education in preparation for teaching high school.
Past rush chairman and pledge class president of her sorority, Miss Bly has also been on the
SUA travel subcommittee and the AWS high school leadership committee.
The new president was selected from four finalists by the sorority president's council after interviews last night from 7 to 8:30 pm.
Miss Bly said she was thrilled with her new job, but that she was also cognizant of the responsibility which it entails.
She will be inducted along with all other Panhellenic officers, on March 7.
--UDK Photo by Lynniel Q. Van Benschoten POP TOP NICKEL
Parking in downtown Lawrence, for that matter anywhere there is parking meters, has taken on a new outlook recently. Since the innovation of the pop top soft beverage can, a new slug has arisen. The ring on the pop top can be shaved or bent to fit any average parking meter. Of course the penalty for such action, if caught is still stiff.
Identity problems cited
Guilt feelings affect student life
By JOHN KIELY
Life at KU seems pretty good. A guy can probably buy all he needs and a part of what he wants.
He can drive near his multi-plex living quarters and possibly see the blue-flickering television screen through a window. Perhaps he can hear the cool jazz of Mulligan pouring out the sound system of a stereo phonograph, or the soothing background sounds shooting out of the walls and ceilings of a residence hall lounge.
He may grumble as he walks toward the door of the building in which he lives, because he had to park so far away, but nothing much can be done about that.
THEN HE'LL ENTER his fraternity house, or "luxury" apartment, or university residence hall (the
word dormitory doesn't exist because it implies a place to eat and sleep, not a socially active organized living program), or scholarship hall.
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He'll be linked with his roommates by common experiences, and he'll even be linked with all of his fellow students at KU in the quest for a degree that will lead to a semi-professional or professional white collar position in a work world where a 32-hour week is expected soon.
He'll probably have between one and three roommates and he's probably not too crowded, and almost never has to be alone.
He is linked with them all in other, smaller ways. All have numbers and all can vote in campus elections.
If he is Ed Kaplan, Brooklyn, N.Y., sophomore, and so from another part of the country he may be impressed by the casual way of the University. He may even find it comfortable, at first.
IN SHORT, THIS STUDENT might say life at KU seems pretty good.
If it is, why does one campus chaplain say he's never before seen such an aura of "guilt" on this campus and speak with alarm at the increased use of narcotics and hallucinogenics?
Why does the psychiatrist in charge of the student mental health center mention students who, without being alcoholics, rely very heavily on alcohol?
Why does another campus chaplain say that the disillusioned sort of person he sees today appears radically different from the down-and-outer of his depression days college career?
Why did students view the last national and state elections as anti-elections?
And why did only 28 per cent of the students vote in the last campus elections?
PART OF THE ANSWER IS another question:
Why did Bogart become a hero in this decade?
Long-time cinema critic Bosley Clowther answered that question with his summation of the Bogart characters—Rick of "Casablanca," Sam Spade of "The Maltese Falcon," and most of the others.
He is "the fellow who wants no truck with trite traditions, with all the rituals of politics, with all the bushwa of patriotism and the hypocrisy of stupid romance; but a fellow who can do something positive when he sees what really has to be done, and can do it without a lot of clatter. A man of strength and essential dignity."
He is also a "loner."
What makes this character different from the student is that the student often cannot find what "really has to be done," or decided, perhaps, that he can't possibly do it.
And this last suggests itself to contemporary writer Fritz Pappenheim as a problem new to this age.
"IN THE PRESENT stage of history man has means of self-realization at his command which were unknown to him in former periods. . . . With this tremendous progress toward the realization of the Prometheus dream, a new image has arisen of man who shapes his life and is master of his destiny. . . . The consciousness that man's yearning for self-realization is thwarted becomes a crushing experience which could not have existed in previous stages."
And this consciousness has added to the feeling of alienation. Jean-Paul Sartre writes that man is a pilgrim with no Inn at the destination. And Heidegger says that the only reality is "anxiety," and is only a brief fleeting fear to a man lost in the world and its diversions. It is when man becomes conscious of this
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