Monday, Oct. 26, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 7
Africans Show Dean Idealism, Eagerness
THE HOPE that new African nations would maintain the idea of the dignity of the individual was expressed by Burton W. Marvin, dean of the school of journalism, Saturday.
Dean Marvin was speaking at a reception given by the African Club in celebration of the independence of Zambia, the newest African nation. Marvin spent nine weeks in Ethiopia, Tanganyika, and Nigeria in the summer of 1963 conducting journalism workshops with three other American journalists.
"THE GREATEST ASSET we had was their idealism, their eagerness to do something in the area of mass communications."
"In those nine weeks, working closely as we were, I think I did catch some of the feeling of the continent." Dean Marvin said.
Dean Marvin said the Americans also learned from the African people during the time they spent there.
"We learned that it is quite literally impossible to pick up one system and transplant it in another society," Marvin said.
The dates for the Experimental Theatre productions as they appeared in Friday's Kansan were incorrect.
Theater Play Date Corrected
The one act plays "At Sea," "Charlie," and "Strip Tease" will be presented tonight through Saturday instead of Thursday through Saturday.
All three plays will be presented each night in the Experimental Theatre, Murphy Hall. Janusz Warminski, Warsaw, Poland, is directing the productions.
Curtain time is 8:20. ID cards will admit students.
THE JOURNALISM SCHOOL dean said this was true not only with what was workable in the areas of journalism, but also in the area of politics.
"I am concerned about the talk of a one party state—this frightens me," Marvin said. "You say 'We'll see to it within one party that things get done.' I think two parties will develop, but it's not up to us to walk in and tell them they need two particles," he said.
MARVIN CITED the progress that has been made in Africa, especially in the area of education. He said the African system of co-operative education could be used as an example for schools in Missouri and Kansas.
Marvin said he felt the State Department was worried before he and the other journalists left that they might receive attacks about the United States' racial problems.
He said he felt they knew that the U.S. government was trying to combat the racial problem.
"WE FOUND Africans in 15 nations very understanding," Marvin said.
"When I left Africa, I felt a little sadness that these newly independent nations still have a difficult time ahead of them." Marvin said. "I hope the English are allowed to stay and help, as they want to."
EBEN K AWAD ZA, graduate student from Rhodesia, which until Saturday has been a part of Zambia, gave a short history of Zambia at the reception.
He said two men had done much to mold the history of Zambia and Northern and Southern Rhodesia —Dr. David Livingstone and John Cecil Rhodes.
LIVINGSTONE, the missionary doctor, came to the area in 1869 with a message for the people and Rhodes came 20 years later with a private army known as the British South Africa Company, Kawadza said.
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