7th Model UN to be April 13-15
By GARY MURRELL
For the seventh straight year, the KU-Y will sponsor a Model United Nations.
This year the event will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday. April 13-15, the Steering Committee announced yesterday.
Bob Ward, Wichita junior, acting chairman of the committee, said about 400 delegates, representing 100 nations, are expected to participate. This number will include several delegates from other state universities.
"We anticipate a busy session this spring," he said. "All those interested in working with the Model UN should get in touch with the KU-Y office in the Kansas Union soon."
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Registration will be open until Feb. 26.
Ward said five main points in planning have been stressed for the event:
- Renewed emphasis on the bloc system in which nations with like interests and problems are grouped.
- A mock Economic and Social Council.
- Four pre-assembly committee sessions.
- Your assembly committee sessions.
* An award to the best-represented nation.
- A mock Economic and Social Council.
Issues to be considered by the sessions include Southeast Asia with emphasis on Viet Nam, population control, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Korea and air traffic control.
Political, special political and cultural interest committees will coordinate the work of the General Assembly to member nations. Members of these committees will be chosen later, Ward said.
While these committees are meeting, the Economic and Social Council will discuss major issues confronting young and powerful nations of the UN membership.
The Security Council and General Assembly will meet concurrently at Hoch Auditorium. The Council includes five permanent member nations, with 10 other elected nations filling the remaining seats.
Supervising the project are the following officers:
Ruth Hatch, Davenport, Iowa, senior, secretary-general; Bob Ward, Wichita junior, president of the General Assembly; Fred Hack, Lawrence junior, parliamentarian, and Jim McNish, Topeka junior, president of the Security Council.
Yet to be chosen are the secretary of the General Assembly and officers of the three committees.
Preceding the sessions will be a diplomatic reception Friday, April 14, at the Holiday Inn, and a banquet Thursday, April 13, at the Kansas Union.
In connection with the Model UN, Robert Christopher, a Newsweek magazine senior editor, will deliver an address in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union Tuesday, Feb. 21. He will speak on the United Nations and Communist China.
The Steering Committee will again meet Tuesday in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
KU-Y and Viet group will give test on war
The KU-Y cabinet voted Monday night to co-sponsor with the KU Viet Nam Committee a student test on Viet Nam and an all-student referendum.
Several faculty members have agreed to give the test, similar to one which recently appeared in "Esquire" magazine, to their classes. The test is to gauge the extent to which students are informed on all aspects of the war in Viet Nam.
Dave Dickensheets, Wellington junior and KU-Y co-president, said: "Members of the KU-Y worked with the Viet Nam Committee in drawing up the test, and they tell us that it is very objective."
Dickensheets said that although there was initial discussion on whether or not the issue was "too controversial," the question finally received the two-thirds vote necessary for passage.
"Most cabinet members feel the Viet Nam issue is crucial to the nation," he said. "They feel that KU students should be interested in the situation and know as much as possible about it. The cabinet feels this effort is an educational one and therefore decided to co-sponsor it."
The Viet Nam test, to be given in the next few weeks, is part of
the KU Viet Nam Committee's program to educate KU students on the war. The program also includes discussions, bi-partisan debates, lectures, and the all-student referendum, scheduled for early December.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — (UPI)— Airman Daniel J. Sullins of Overbrook, Kan., was injured in Tuesday's accident on the aircraft carrier Guadalcanal, the Navy reported.
Four men died and 18 were injured when metal splinters from the rotor blade of a crashed helicopter flew across the deck.
Local airman injured in Navy mishap
Sullins was listed in satisfactory condition today at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital.
Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 3, 1966
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It's trade-in time for tired old myths.
Like the one about business. Especially big business. That it is beyond the rugged individualist's wildest daydream to enter this holy of holies because he'll lose something that's very sacred — like his independence.
Sure, it can happen. If a guy or gal wants to hide, or just get by, or not accept responsibility, or challenges.
We're not omniscient enough or stupid enough to speak for all business, but at a company like Western Electric, bright ideas are not only welcome, they are encouraged. And no door is shut. Create a little stir, go ahead, upset an old applecart (we replace shibboleths at a terrific pace - we have to as manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell System - in order to provide your Bell telephone company with equipment it needs to serve you.)
There's an excitement in business. True, we're in it to make a profit, but working to
find new and better ways to make things that help people communicate is very rewarding and satisfying. Did you ever hear these wry words of Oliver Wendell Holmes? "Never trust a generality — not even this one."
That's how we feel about the generality that claims you'll just become a little cog in a company like Western Electric. You might, of course, but if you consider yourself an individual now, odds are 10 to 1 that you'll keep your individuality. And cherish it. And watch it grow. Even at big, big Western Electric.
You know, that's the only way we'd want you to feel. If you feel like coming in with us.