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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 2, 1965
Exchange Editorial
Student Loyalty Oaths
Both the Senate and House have taken initial action on bills that would repeal the loyalty oath as a requirement for recipients of student loans under the National Defense Education Act (NDEA). This is good news for University students who may need the grants (up to $800 a year), loans and fellowships provided under the Act, but who find the oaths repugnant and insulting.
The Senate version of the repeal measure, originally introduced in 1959 by the then Sen. John F. Kennedy, has been reintroduced by Democratic Sens. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and Robert Kennedy of New York.
Clark has pointed out that the loyalty oath provisions are meaningless as a weapon against subversion. Legislation cannot stop lying. In addition, he contends, no such requirements are made for recipients of aid through the Small Business Administration and Soil Conservation programs. "We are willing to assume the loyalty of our businessmen and farmers," he argues. "We should be willing to do so for our youth."
Besides, he says, such oaths are inconsistent with the traditions of free inquiry at universities.
The bill would also eliminate a provision making it a crime for a person who belongs to a so-called subversive organization to apply for aid under the NDEA.
Clark and Kennedy have allowed time for their colleagues to become co-sponsors of the bill. With some prodding from their student constituents, Minnesota's senators might be among the measure's vocal supporters.
Minnesota Daily
University of Minnesota June 22,1965
Honors Programs, the Stage and Drama Are Topics for KU English Conference
From the stage visualization of drama to what the student should be reading in courses of literature, professors of English who taught in the Advanced Placement in English Conference at KU have treated key matters of interest to both student and teacher.
One of the professors is Arthur Mizener, Cornell University teacher, writer and critic, who wrote "The Far Side of Paradise," perhaps the definitive biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Another is Walter J. Meserve, KU professor of English and author of "An Outline History of American Drama," to be published this fall.
Still another is Kester Svendsen, chairman of the English department at the University of Oregon and authority on John Milton.
Meserve used six KU theater majors to present a scene from Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" in two different ways.
MESERVE KNOWS the stage visualization of drama is important to the literate interpretation, and that's why he used a unique technique to demonstrate the uses of modern drama in the classroom to some 200 high school and college English teachers, including distinguished professors and scholars, at the conference.
"I want them to see entirely different interpretations of a scene, so they can visualize how this aspect of drama can be used to their advantage in the classroom of advanced students," Meserve explained.
THE BEST of his talk was built
around this visual illustration. He introduced the scope of American drama by tracing the major movements, such as the trend toward nationalism, the rise of realism and social comedy, the influence of Ibsen, and the spectrum of social drama following the two world wars.
"Too many English teachers use only the historic perspectives and the literary value in their interpretation of drama.
"There are differences when teaching drama in the classroom that was written to be produced on stage. English teachers need to be able to visualize the contributions of actors, directors, scenery, lighting, and costumes, more than just reading or hearing lines," Meserve said.
Meserve considered the literary value as well, for this is his major interest and concern.
MIZENER CONSIDERED what happens when the high school senior studies the novel "The Great Gatsby" or Milton's "Paradise Lost" only to discover that the book is the subject matter for a college freshman English class?
"We're wasting his time, or his high school did," is Mizener's answer.
Mizener and Svendsen were distinguished guests for the recent conference.
Mizzen and Svendsen agreed that there is a great need for communication to alleviate overlap of material studied in the last years
of high school and the first two years of college.
"The term 'honors program' is often a misnomer," Mizener said. "If a high school really prepares a student for advanced placement in college and the data to rate the student includes a wide range of criteria, the college must still create advanced courses in different tracks for different bright students.
"THERE WILL ALWAYS be some opposition from those who say a real honors program is not democratic to the masses, but the bright student is our most neglected one today. We must prepare him in high school, then have something geared to meet his needs and challenges in college," Mizener concluded.
Mizener initiated the honors program at Cornell, which provides expanded sub-sections in major fields of interest after the master honors program the first two years.
Svendsen believes high school teachers must know how to teach an advanced placement class if they expect their students to rate high on advanced placement tests.
"Many students just sit attentively in the classroom and sponge up the brilliant insights of their professors. Teachers must instead stimulate them to do some original study and provide their own insights," Svendsen said.
Formosa: Always a Hot Spot
By Phil Newsom
Little is heard these days from either side of the Formosa Strait.
THE RED Chinese continue to lob shells against the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy on an every-other-day basis, but they seem more for the record than from any serious plan to attack.
Since the 1960 break with the Soviet Union there has been little Red Chinese talk of seizing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's refuge on the island of Formosa.
As for the Nationalists under Chiang, they never have given up the dream of using Formosa as a springboard from which to recapture the mainland.
THE BREAK with Russia forced them on their own agriculturally and industrially and in the development of their own atomic device which they successfully accomplished last October.
SLOGANS painted on the buildings of Taipei remind them of it every day.
They have, of course, been busy elsewhere.
"They must know the techniques to make an English course challenging, and conferences such as these can teach techniques and coordinate high school programs with those on the advanced placement college level." Svendsen explained.
They successfully carried out aggression against the borders of India, thus humiliating that nation in the eyes of other Asians.
IN THAT EVENT, Taipei dispatches have reported that Chiang would be willing to make his forces available to a joint command with the United States either in Viet Nam or in a diversionary move against the Chinese mainland.
IN ANY EVENT, lacking the equipment for a large-scale overwater operation, no Nationalist attack upon the mainland could be carried out without U.S. aid. And U.S. military aid to the Nationalists was predicated strictly upon the defense of Formosa.
But as the years passed and the Chinese Communists successfully regimented the mainland's 700 million population, the hopes increasingly seemed only a dream.
But as the war in South Viet Nam has escalated, the Nationalists are beginning to believe they see a change in their own situation, particularly if the Red Chinese should intervene in South Viet Nam.
And with this thought in mind, a Nationalist Chinese division is receiving accelerated training in amphibious operations.
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BOOK REVIEWS
DAVID WALKER'S APPEAL TO THE COLOURED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD (New York, Hill and Wang, American Century Series, 1965).
This summer promises to be one of the most explosive in history in the fight for human rights. Thus many publishers are searching for various bits of history of the civil rights movement and early tracts for equality. This edition of David Walker's Appeal is only one of several published this year.
David Walker was a free Negro who, not being able to endure Negro life in the South, went to Boston and established a small business, buying and selling sea clothing. With his own funds he first published his Appeal in 1829. Walker was a leader in the antislavery fight, along with Garrison and John Brown. A price was put on Walker's head, and in 1830 he was found dead outside his shop. In the words of the introduction to this edition, "it was Walker's ungentle probing that first laid bare the deep-seated schizophrenia of the South, where the right hand held the Bible and the left the bull-whip."
THE COMPLETE TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (Modern Library Giant, $3.95).
This is it, in one volume. Poe goes on and on, passing through the literary fashions, becoming identified with various motifs, undergoing brief periods of obscurity, getting picked up by the Hollywood makers of horror movies, always there as the writer who probably has captured the fancy of more American readers than any other figure—and that includes Mark Twain.
Modern Library Giants did not stint with this edition. You can find the marvelous, ringing, rhythmic poetry that your grade school teacher sang out to you (the tintinabulation of the bells and beautiful Annabel Lee). You can find the marvelously shocking stories of the house of Usher and the cask of Amontillado and the Red Death and the black cat and the tell-tale heart and of course the adventures of M. Dupin. There is even that imaginative "Balloon Hoax" that Poe dreamed up for the New York Sun in the 1840s.
THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS, by Ian Fleming (Dell, 50 cents)—Not a James Bond novel. Brief and sketchy, it's little more than a short story, describing international espionage, African diamond mines, and communism. Good for those drowsy summer afternoons.
EUGENE ONEGIN, by Alexander Pushkin (Penguin Classics, $1.45) — The famous novel in verse, by the greatest of Russian poets, and a
work that has become known to many through operatic form. The work dates to the early 19th century, and the story is of the love of Tatyana for the op. Eugene Onegin. Many regard this as the forefather of Russian novels, and this is an attractive new edition from Fenguin.
REACH TO THE STARS, by Calder Willingham (Dell, 60 cents) — If your tastes this summer run to the adventures of a bellboy in a Hollywood tale, told by a man who always writes interestingly, then you might turn back to this 1951 novel brought back in paperback. The hotel is full of eccentrics, as many as normally inhabit Willingham's novels of the South, and there's nothing uplifting, but these days there isn't much in American literature that is.
A PRIMER ON MONEY, BANKING, AND GOLD, by Peter L. Bernstein (Vintage, $1.95) — A handy guidebook by a man who wants to make understandable the questions of gold, paper money, bank credit, the Federal Reserve, the balance of payments, some of these topics that have emerged from the financial pages to become front page newspaper stories in recent years. The book is an original volume, designed more for the layman than the specialist.
THE PILGRIM PROJECT, by Hank Searls (Crest, 60 cents)—The big thing today is the political story, one that seems to be right in the middle of current events. Hank Searls gives us one here that is in the school of "Fail-Safe" and "Seven Days in May." It's about the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and there are spies and assorted types involved in skulduggery. It should not surprise you to learn that there'll be a movie along one of these days based on the book.
THE APRIL ROBIN MURDERS, bv Craig Rice and Ed McBain (Dell, 45 cents)—Here is a collaboration for mystery fans by two well known writers—the late Craig Rice, who had a long list of popular titles, and Ed McBain, who wrote the 87th Precinct series. This one is about skulduggygery in an old mansion which has a landlady as rich as Barbara Hutton and as beautiful as Marilyn Monroe.
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VICTORINE, by Frances Parkinson Keyes (Crest, 75 cents)—The ladies love Mrs. Keyes, and they should, for she provides exciting and tearful interludes in her novels, most of which take place in the South. "Victorine" is about the rice-growing family of Brent Winslow in Louisiana, and about a young man named Prosper who is in love with a beauty named Victorine.