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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 23, 1964
No Sure Preventive of War But UN Could Be Only Hope
Bv Janet Chartier
The value and goals of the present-day United Nations are being evaluated this week. The nation is observing United Nations week.
To save future generations from war, to reaffirm the fundamental human rights of dignity and equality, to make justice and respect for obligations possible, and to promote social progress and better standards of living are the purposes of the UN as stated in the UN Charter.
"THE UNITED NATIONS has become the battleground of ideologies," Mischek Mawema, special student from Zambia, said. "It is a platform where one country is all out to out-wit the other."
Zambia, a new African country which will declare independence Saturday, will soon join the United Nations.
Mawae finds the attitude of the larger nations unsatisfactory. "The UN would serve humanity better if those concerned showed some responsibility," he said. He used Russia's failure to pay dues as an example.
"But the UN should and must exist. It has done much in education and scientific research for underdeveloped countries." Mawema said.
AMERICAN STUDENTS seem to agree with Mawmaw's view, Patsy Goins, Marysville senior and steering committee chairman of the KU-Y Model UN, calls the UN a place to talk over things.
"It best serves in specialized areas where it gives help to underdeveloped countries," Miss Goins said. She referred specifically to the United
Nations Economic and Social Committee (UNESCO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
"The UN is a formal recognition of the value, if not the absolute necessity, of peaceful co-existence." Donna Hanneman, Junction City junior and co-chairman of the KU Peace Corps committee, said.
"This does not mean the UN is the sure answer to war, much less poverty. But it is a day by day sounding board for the problems that arise between and among nations," she added.
MISS HANNEMAN said the UN has shown that great strides toward peace simply don't exist. "The UN draws the line for a 30 miles disputed border and UNICEF distributes powdered milk. To the UN the small strides are the realities of peace and prosperity," she said.
Julie Winkler, Caney senior and co-chairman of the KU-Y, described the UN as having great potential for furthering world peace.
"On the surface, however, it seems to make a mockery of itself by insufficient actions during times of crisis and the unwillingness of members to contribute their share," she said. These contributions include financial and military support, she said.
"LLESS CONSPICUOUSLY," the agencies in the UN such as UNESCO, WHO, and UNICEF, furnish enough real exchange and benefits to merit this federation of world nations." Miss Hanneman said.
A more enthusiastic comment came from Lance Burr, Salina senior and chairman of People-to-People. "I am
wholeheartedly in favor of the United Nations," he said.
"Like a lot of other organizations, it doesn't claim to do everything many people think it does," Burr said. He feels the UN's main service is talking over some of the world's problems.
"This is the only way to approach the problem. Many people think they have easy answers to questions which will never be answered," he said. Some of the problems he cited were apartheid in the Union of South Africa and the admittance of the People's Republic of China into the UN.
ISSUES TO COME before the UN in its next session are also being discussed. Dr. Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science, says the two major problems will be countries behind in paying dues and the admittance of the People's Republic of China to the UN.
"The UN was originally established to maintain the security of the world." Prof. Ketzel said. "The basic differences between the Soviet Union and the United States who both possess a veto in the security council has precluded a consideration of the major conflicts which separate these states."
"But on questions of maintaining peace not involving a major power the UN has been successful to some degree," he said. "If it has not solved the problems, it has at least prevented them from prolonged hostilities."
He cited the Arab-Palestine dispute, the earlier Dutch-Indonesian dispute, and the recent communal differences in Cypress, as examples.
A representative of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business will talk with students interested in management careers next Monday.
Mr. Woodford L. Flowers will discuss Harvard's two-year course leading to a master's degree in business administration, its business placement service and its fellowship and financial aid programs.
College graduates from all fields of concentration who show scholastic excellence or demonstrable promise are eligible for the school.
The MBA program at Harvard Business School is based on the case method pioneered at Harvard. This involves the handling of a variety of business situations and strives to develop the analytical and decision-making capacities essential to the modern business manager.
The Harvard Business School now offers 60 fellowships to first-year MBA students. About 40 per cent of the student body makes use of the deferred payment or loan program.
There are presently five KU graduates at Harvard under the MBA program among the 1300 students
enrolled there. Harvard Business School alumni currently number 27,000, and comprise over half the alumni of all the business schools throughout the nation.
Harvard Man To Talk Business
Mr. Flowers is director of College Relations and a member of the Admissions committee of the Harvard Business School.
Those interested in seeing him should call Mrs. Gladys Padget, Placement Director, 206 Strong Hall.
Math Text Written By KU Professor
William R. Scott, professor of mathematics, is the author of "Group Theory," a book which has been published this month.
The book was written to serve as a text or as a reference in advanced mathematics courses.
Dr. Scott prepared much of the book while on sabbatical leave in 1962-63.
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"We all have our witches, or hate objects," Warminski said. "Again, Mrozek is protesting against totalitarianism," he said.
The final play, "Strip Tease," concerns two theocrats who believe in free will. One believes that, in making a decision, freedom of choice is eliminated. The other feels that it is best to be a man of action and make a definite choice. Each chooses, in his own way, to remove his clothing at the command of an invisible man. The audience watches them lose their dignity as they remove their clothing piece by piece.
Warminski compares the second play, "Charles," with Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," which is based on the Salem witch hunts and trials. Two men search for a scapegoat, represented by Charles, whom they can hate and punish.
"Mrozek thinks that we are victims losing our freedom and he is violently protesting," Warminski said.
Theater Will Stage 3 Polish Plays In First American Performance
Warminski explained that the play is a study of reaction against totalitarianism. "But it is not meant to be linked with any political philosophy," he said. "Rather, Mrozek is protesting against any force which oppresses."
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Three men on a raft, without food, must choose a victim among them who will sacrifice himself for the others in the first play, "At Sea."
In each play, the victim is caught in a trap, Warminski explained. "The position of victim and oppressor evolves from an elementary situation in "At Sea" to the highly civilized play "Strip Tease," he said.
The American premiere of three one-act plays by Slavomir Mrozek, Polish playwright, will open the Experimental Theatre's season.
plays are very aggressive and provocative."
"The plays are extremely avant-garde," he said. "Mrozek is a creator of the logic of absurdity. In these plays he it attempting to justify absurd situations in life."
Warminski interprets "Strip Tease" as Mrozek's protest against overmechanization. "The world has become so mechanized that it overwhelms human beings," he said.
- Lavaliers
- Guards
- Rings
Warminski continued: "Mrozek is a humanist who is trying to bring real freedom to human beings. "His
- Crests
- Pins
Janusz Warminski, visiting director from Warsaw, Poland, and director of the plays, describes "At Sea," "Charles" and "Strip Tease" as "a trio of plays showing the relationship of victim to oppressor."
- Mugs
Warminski said Mrozek gives no solution to the situations he presents in his plays.
"He is trying to point out some of the absurdity of convention. The audience draws its own conclusions," he said.
Warminski believes that the plays, even thought avant-garde, will be appreciated here.
"I think that Mrozek's plays will appeal here because we are performing for a university audience. Students are willing to accept intellectual theater," he said.
The plays will be presented in the Experimental Theatre Oct. 29 through Oct.31.
Students will be admitted with ID cards.
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