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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 24, 1965
The Long Years
We saw the death of a president, the near-ruption of wars, the genesis of peace and meteoric advances in the void of space.
And we have seen ourselves, emerging from frightened freshmen into too-often blase and sophisticated seniors. We have thought we knew all the answers, only to find we knew very few of them. We have stumbled our way into self-knowledge, only to find we did not know ourselves. And, with restlessness, we approach the period when we will shuck the protective cloak of theory to wear the one of practical reality.
And we hope that our A in political science is a true indication of our ability to gauge the issue and vote the right way. We hope that our sociology course has shown us how to deal with the small child in the city slum. We fear that our time has not been used well enough. And, in a way, we
wish we had more time . . . more time to learn, to think. And we hope we can retain the idealism, the thought without the protective cloak.
WE HAVE LARGELY forgotten the panic of tests and the fatigue of late nights. And we remember the excitement of learning and we hope the excitement does not deteriorate into stolidity.
We have searched for answers we could not find. We only hope we keep looking.
And we sense the untold tragedy of millions and hope we can realize the obligation we have been given. We have felt deeply, but sometimes not deeply enough.
With a curious combination of pain and joy, we are ready to leave. We hope we realize the idealistic expectations we have for ourselves. And we wonder if we will...
Leta Roth
The People Say...
Dear Sir:
IN REPLY TO MISS RUTH Adam's letter in the UDK of May 20, 1965, regarding the Egyptian-Palestinian Refugees relation. I wish to point out the following facts to clear up her misleading statements;
1) Abdallah Muhamed Salem is a common name in the Arab World as is Gary Smith of Bob Jones in this country. You may find more than one person with the same name.
2) The Egyptian officials in the Gaza Strip are few. Most, if not all, of the civil servants in the strip's administration are Palestinians except in the highest positions. The only Egyptians which are in the area are in the military and armed forces and in their camps and barracks.
3) The teachers, to correct her information, start with 15-20 pounds per month and all the teachers are Palestinians.
4) Regarding the travel between Egypt and Gaza Strip, please note
that Gaza is a restricted area enforced by the U.A.R. Armed Forces. ALL persons who want to enter or leave need a permit from the Armed Forces. The total cost is a few cents for the stamp to be pasted on the application. Also, Egypt suffers from unemployment and it does not want to increase it. However, Egypt encourages the travel to other Arab States for work, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Arabian Gulf Sheikhdoms.
5) We have not heard of any discontent among the Arab Palestinian Refugees in Gaza or else "Israel" would publish it all over the world through different media.
6) Egypt has gained nothing from Gaza but on the contrary is losing. Annually it pours a few million pounds to the Strip, in addition to what its Armed Forces spend there and their personal contributions (one day of food allowance week-v).
1) Further, I wish Miss.Ruth Adam was more accurate in her
reference; who made the interview for example? When? Where? What is the importance of Abdallah Muhammed Salem that one may take his word "for granted."
8) By the way, I am Palestinian by birth, and at present am holding a Lebanese Travel Document. Thus, I think I know more fully the situation in the area.
I sincerely hope that my letter will rectify the distorting statements in Miss Ruth Adam's letter.
Hama S. Dana Joffa. Palestine
Dear Sir:
I READ WITH INTEREST AND a smile the letter of Ruth Adam about the young Palestinian of the Gaza Strip in UDK, Thursday, May 20. 1965.
I doubt very much that Ruth Adam believes that the story of this misfit reveals the attitudes and feelings of the Palestinians toward the Egyptian.
Dr. A. Abdul-Rahim Joffa, Palestine
Columbia U. Chapel Sports Non Profit Coffee House Now
Roger B. Wyatt, an 18-year-old Columbia University freshman, took a sip of mulled cider and looked around the long narrow room where 35 fellow students were crowded around small circular tables.
"It's just like any coffeehouse in the 'Village,'" he said. "You'd never know you were in the crypt of a church."
As he spoke, a banjo player in a green crew-cut sweater began to stamp one foot against a small elevated platform and beat out a Kentucky mountain ballad.
Waitresses moved briskly from the small kitchen alcove into darkened corners with orders of coffee and tea (15 cents) and pastries (20 cents). Yellowish light from tiny votive candles flickered against the stone walls and disappeared into a thin mist of cigarette smoke, which hung near the red brick ceiling.
"It's the atmosphere that I like," said Mary Ellen Jacobs, 18, a freshman at Barnard College and Roger Wyatt's date for the evening. "There's good entertainment and food you can't get anywhere else nearby. I even heard the first poetry here that I really liked."
The couple was seated in a coffeehouse situated in the basement of St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University. Known as the "Post-crypt," it is operated by the university's Protestant Foundation and is one of more than 40 similar projects that have sprung up throughout the country in the last five years.
"The purpose is simply to provide a place for students to have informal conversation under the stimulation of various art forms." said the Rev. John D. Cannon, the 31-year-old assistant chaplain who helped originate the project last October. "There aren't many places in the city where students can go
just to sit and talk and appreciate things."
About 100 student volunteers help run the nonprofit coffeehouse, which is open Thursday through Saturday evenings. Nightly programs include folk singing, poetry reading and drama.
Except for the presence of a chaplain—whose clerical collar often gives way to a turtle neck—the Postscript's only overtly religious sign is a brightly colored mosaic which serves as a food counter and depicts symbols of life and death and the Last Supper. "There's no hidden agenda," said Mr. Cannon. "We're here to serve the student body, not to preach."
John D. Perry Jr., a Yale Divinity School graduate student who
made a survey of campus coffeehouses, said that the 40 or so non-profit places now in existence in all sections of the country aim at providing inexpensive places for dating and at encouraging the growth of personal relationships through "free and open discussion."
Student coffeehouses are operated by almost every major Protestant denomination, and workers tend to identify themselves as Protestants, according to Mr. Perry. Almost half of the customers, however, are non-Protestants. Reprinted from New York Times.
Some serve only coffee; others offer full meals or up to 40 varieties of tea or coffee. Most occupy student centers, but at least two are situated in rented store-fronts.
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THE ESSENTIAL LIPPMANN, edited by Clinton Rossiter and James Lare (Vintage, $2.45).
One almost marvels at times to consider that Walter Lippmann is a living figure. He has been around so long; his face is so familiar; he has been so mighty a force on the American scene. His works have been textbooks in political science, in history, in journalism. If there is a truly great personal journalist living today it is Walter Lippmann, a man whose words have been quoted since he was a fiery young radical in the days of the birth of the New Republic.
The editors have extracted the essential Lippmann from many of his works, the books, "A Preface to Politics," "Public Opinion," "A Preface to Morals." "The Good Society," "The Public Philosophy" and others, his pamphlets, columns, editorials in the great New York World of the twenties, and articles. If we look closely we can find the young socialist becoming the responsible conservative and even the "new conservative" of "The Public Philosophy" and then the liberal backer of John Kennedy and a man now being reviled by many on the right in American politics.
He has never been an absolutist; this troubles some people, of course, for they don't know where they'll find him. The editors would have had interesting data, for example, could they have included recent Lippmann columns on American foreign policy and the role of this nation in Viet Nam. He has begun to sound to some people almost like an isolationist in his belief that we can't be all over the world all the time.
Lippmann has served as a constant guide for many people, right back to the Helen Hokinson club woman who didn't know how to think until she'd read Walter Lippmann that day. This book may serve as a guide for the future, as well. We are reminded of the need for leadership, for truth, no matter what its ideological trappings may be, for speaking out and saving what we believe no matter how unpopular our words may be at the time.
THE 480, hy Eugene Burdick (Dell,
85 cents).
When you write books like "Fail-Safe" and "The Ugly American" you have a readmade audience. And when your book is about politics—in this politically conscious time—your audience will be even bigger. Eugene Burdick produced a best-seller last year called "The 480." Trouble is, it was written for 1964, and in 10 years the book will be a topical curiosity of the sixties.
"The 480" is about maneuvering for the 1964 Republican nomination. There they are at the Cow Palace, just as they were last July. The big
difference is that instead of coming up with Barry Goldwater the party comes up with a "machine candidate," and not from the Philadelphia or New York machine.
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Slide rules, calculating machines and computers have been put to work, and they have figured out 480 classification groups. Then all the data is fed into computers, and the party comes up with a completely tailored candidate.
Probably nonsense—or is it? It makes hay of the democratic process and the basic idealism of America becomes cynicism and the voters look like so many sheep. But, gimmicky as it is, it is still on the scary side. And one can ask whether it really is a fairy tale.
THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT, by Douglass Cater (Vintage, $1.45).
When this book by the then Washington reporter for The Reporter magazine appeared in 1959 it deservedly received attention as a virtual textbook in Washington journalism. As the years go by, despite the dated quality of some of the references (it deals, after all, with the Eisenhower age), it seems even better, and it now seems more like a classic than a mere textbook.
The Douglass Cater thesis is relatively simple—the press (meaning all the media) has assumed such significance in Washington that it has become a virtual fourth branch. About this he is not entirely happy. He does not like the way the press, or at least some segments of it, has become a hatchet man for certain politicians, or the way the press has fallen into the handout trap, or the way the press has glorified—perhaps without wanting to do so—the congressional investigator.
In the fall that Cater's book appeared Nikita Khrushchev was making his grand tour of America, with the press—because of its bulk—tripping him up and making a glorious circus out of the thing. There also have been the controvers over the Kennedy-Nixon debates (Cater wrote critically of these in The Reporter), the continuing discussion about the press and its handling of the Kennedy assassination and subsequent events.
But these things have happened. Since Cater wrote the book we have seen significant changes in the press conference, with which he deals in great detail. We have seen the question of news management, which he also considers, become of even greater concern, especially in respect to the Cuban affair in 1962.
The subject is an important one, and this book is not at all narrow. It deserves, still, a wide reading. The only possible reservation is that it perhaps needs revision and updating to give it even greater value.—CMP