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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 23, 1968
'Viet war is impoverishing VISA volunteer reports
By DORIS BOLINGER Journalism Camp Reporter
Carolyn Hamm, former Voluntary International Service Assignments (VISA) worker in Vietnam, told approximately 20 people Wednesday at a meeting in the Oliver cafeteria that the Vietnamese people's view is "the Americans are impoverishing us so we have to depend on them."
Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, Miss Hamm worked with other volunteers under the direction of UN organizations in a program based on a pacifist position.
"THE WAR is causing suffering on all sides, so we should help on all sides," Miss Hamm said. She believes this is the best way because of the basically neutral position and non-relief view.
Working in the district town of Ankhe on the edge of the Central Highlands, Miss Hamm lived in a kind of barn within the large
refugee area. This is the location of the 1st Cavalry Division, where many of the peasants worked at the base doing menial jobs for from 50 cents to a dollar a day.
"As I got to know these families, and it took a long time, we began to relate to each other as people, rather than as Americans and Vietnamese," Miss Hamm said. She added that after she learned the language, people told her more and more about themselves and how the war affected them.
CONSTIENTLY, especially among the farmers, their stories told of their homes being destroyed by American bombs and ill treatment by American soldiers at the base.
The people understand the American soldier's viewpoint, she said, but wish there was some other form of communication between the soldiers and themselves besides one of physical contact.
Some of the G.I.'s give gifts to the refugees, but this only strains the relationship, she said. "They want to be able to give back, if it is given out of friendship."
They view Americans as imperialists, Miss Hamm assured the group. "In terms of Vietnamese history in trying to achieve national independence, they feel that because we supported the French, how can we be for their independence?"
"THE REAL HOPE is giving them a chance to establish a neutral government," she offered as a solution for South Vietnam. She added that the NLF had a realistic solution with their "independent, neutral, democratic, South Vietnam."
She sees unification of the country as a gradual thing. "They consider themselves basically as brothers with a few cultural digressions."
Alumni treasurer notes changes
By DIANE WANEK
Journalism Camp Reporter
Jewell M. Campbell, former KU baseball letterman and treasurer of the KU Alumni Association in Seattle, has noted many changes on campus since he arrived here.
"The changes in this campus since I've last been here are like the changes between day and night," he said. "The building of the new dormitories is probably the greatest change."
A CHANGE Jewell would like to see is a new $155,000 track with more lanes at KU. He said that the Alumni Association in Seattle would probably contribute toward the building of a new one and that he would like to see KU alumni from all over the nation contribute to this.
tors. His wife is also a graduate of KU and majored in music. She, too, has been an officer in the Alumni Association.
terested in the track than a normal graduate of KU because he was on the track team here in 1932. "One of my most vivid recollections is when Glen Cunningham and I were on the track team together," he said.
Now employed as chief claim clerk for the Milwaukee Railroad in Seattle, Jewell keeps his fingers in the athletic pie. He sells tickets for all the University of Washington home games.
Jewell majored in physical education and had James Naismith and Forrest C. Allen for instruce-
Mid-calf coats added for fall
Fads and Fashions
Jewell is probably more in-
By JOAN JARVIS Journalism Camp Reporter
If you can buy only one coat this fall, consider a mid-calf.
Also changed will be KU's Photo-Interview Day, since Big Eight rules specify that a football squad may not assemble for pictures earlier than one day prior to the start of fall practice.
THE REVISED photo-interview session will be August 29 starting at 9 a.m. at Memorial Stadium.
The mid-calf coat is an allweather coat for cold, rain or snow. Mid-calf coats are usually worn over skirts that are longer than the coats.
The reporting schedule for Jayhawk gridders, announced last week will be changed because of a misunderstanding of the new formula for calculating the earliest opening date for fall football practices.
Coach Pepper Rodgers said the Jayhawks will drill without pads August 30 and 31 and September 2 and begin two-a-day practices in full gear on September 3.
Grid practice set back day
The University of Pittsburgh (Pa.) School of Dental Medicine has a chant, "Rock Chalk' Jayhawk! Pitt Dental!"
For this fall there are three major skirt lengths. The shortest skirt this year should be no more than three inches above the knee. The newest skirt length is one inch below the knee and third, the mid-calf length, which is really not appropriate for day dresses or skirts in the city, but great for coats and skirts in the country. All of these lengths will vary according to the individual.
It is believed at Pitt that it was introduced in the fall of 1912 by three students who had attended KU.
The Jayhawk is happy that for more than half a century he has been of some service to the Panthers.
Boots wear best with midcalf coats. Boots are for the country and all the different types of weather.
Capes are stylish substitutes for coats. The mid-calf cape, like the coat, is an all-weather wrap. Patterned in tweed or herringbone, capes also look sharp with boots.
An adaptation of 56 years' standing has just come to light here.
The new fashions for this fall are really considered mood fashions. You have got to understand them and work with them. Try different accessories with them and experiment with unusual hair styles. They are not everyday clothes. Wear them only when you feel like it.
'Rah, rah Jayhawk'
Thousands of fans in stadia and fieldhouses have thrilled to the "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk!" chant of the University of Kansas.
Teddy Roosevelt called it "the world's greatest college yell."
No apology is due the Jayhawk's Wildcat neighbors up the Kaw river. In those days the University of Kansas often was called the Kansas State University.
GOOD YELLS inevitably are borrowed and adapted. Thousands of colleges and high schools must get a repertoire of pep-inducers somewhere.
More millions have heard it in nationally televised football and basketball broadcasts.
THE "ROCK CHALK, Jayhawk" has gone a long way since its ancestor tumbled from the fertile mind of Prof. E. H. S. Bailey of the chemistry faculty in 1886.