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YAF Expands The Standard
The Young Americans for Freedom voted last night to release their magazine, "The Standard," to a semi-autonomous board in order to publish the magazine on a statewide basis.
Payton explained that the "Standard's" new editorial board would be composed of an editor, a business manager, an official representative of the KU-YAF, and two board members selected at large from the state.
Marick Payton, Lawrence resident and editor of the present "Standard," told YAF members that the magazine could be expanded to 24 pages and print about 5,000 copies.
Payton will remain the temporary editor of the "Standard" during the summer. Gerald Sullins, Ottawa senior, was appointed temporary business manager, and Thomas McGivern, Highland Park, Ill. freshman, was selected as the KU-YAF representative to the editorial board.
Robert Shaw, famed director of the Robert Shaw Chorale, arrived yesterday to begin rehearsals for the "Missa Solemnis" by Beethoven with the Concert Choir and University Chorus.
The gala concert will be presented free at 8 p.m. Friday in Hoch Auditorium. Miss Florence Kopleff, an alto soloist with the Shaw Chorale, will be the alto soloist in the "Missa."
The other soloists will be Sarah Endich, soprano, also of the Shaw Chorale; Ed Sooter, tenor, Wichita graduate student and assistant instructor of voice, and Reinhold Schmidt, bass baritone and professor of voice.
Robert Shaw Will Direct KU Chorus
The Concert Choir and both sections of the University Chorus, totaling over 400 people, have been practicing intermittently all semester with Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of choral music, on the "Missa Solemnis." Prof. Krehbiel is one of the founder members of the Robert Shaw Chorale and appears with them on RCA Victor records.
Prof. Krehbiel will take a sabbatical leave for the fall semester next year during which he will tour Russia with the Robert Shaw Chorale and do musicological research with Mr. Shaw in the Soviet musical archives.
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stituted last week, without the consent of the council, were made legal.
The changes approved were;
- Departure from the first-come, first-served principle to selection of seats by lot drawings.
- Switch from unlimited block size to a 25 person limit.
- Elimination of single game tickets.
Jerry Dickson, Newton junior and student body president, explained there may be some exceptions made to the 25 person block maximum. He said cases should be presented to the ASC athletic seating committee which will make the decision.
THE ACTION on the resolution dealing with the proposed life insurance plan gave Dickson the responsibility of selecting an independent agent to receive bids for the program here and subsequently administer the plan.
The third legislation passed was an amendment to the ASC publications bill which made the members of the publications committee also members of the University Daily Kansan Board, the governing body of the paper.
Dean Salter, Garden City junior, was elected the new chairman by a 24-6 margin.
TRUDY MESERVE, Abilene sophomore, was elected vice chairman, 13-9; Jo Snyder, Bethesda, MD., junior, won by acclamation for secretary, and Larry Borcherding, Kansas City, Mo., junior, won the treasurer spot. 12-11, to fill the other elective positions.
The Kansas Board constitution has included this provision for some time.
This provision had been in effect before a revised publications bill was passed by the ASC last year. The provision was left out of the revised bill.
Peace Corps Hailed and Derided
By Bob Hoyt
The Peace Corps has been both hailed and derided by prominent Americans. An example of each was seen recently.
Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tex., has called for a complete review of the Peace Corps administration before the Senate acts on its $63.7 million authorized appropriation for 1963.
SEN. TOWER CHARGED that a 65-year-old woman, Mrs. Janie Fletcher of Panhandle, Tex., was dropped because, among other things, she could not run a mile before breakfast. He said that Mrs. Fletcher left an $8,000 a year teaching job in Texas to join the Corps, and then was sent home from the Puerto Rican training center "embarrassed, humiliated and bewildered, with no place to live, while young Peace Corps members with only high school educations and no experience were sent to Brazil."
Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps director, said that Mrs. Fletcher's dismissal was not due to her inability to take part in physical conditioning.
"There were other reasons, and these were discussed with her." Shriver said. "One of them was that of all the candidates for Brazil, she had the lowest language facility."
SPEAKING AT Winfield May 4, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt praised the Peace Corps. In an address before Southwestern College students she said the Peace Corps "will bring to America a better understanding of other nations."
She said the United States will benefit as much as foreign countries in that "this nation's youth will acquire a knowledge of the
At its beginning the Peace Corps was viewed with skepticism by many. Some expected the program to become, as one veteran state department foreign service officer put it, "another hit-and-run set of do-gooders in Bermuda shorts and button down shirts."
language, problems, habits and customs of other nations."
CRITICS WERE apprehensive lest the young volunteers (average age 25) would antagonize foreigners with too much zeal and too many grand ideas, or a lack of any real understanding of what they were about. Some critics are quieter now—others continue to look askance at the program.
Daniel Boorstin, historian at the University of Chicago, said:
"The Peace Corps once again demonstrated both American naivete and arrogance. It is too small to have lasting impact on the economy of other nations, too big in relation to the number of qualified personnel we can provide for it."
Morris Stein, a psychologist at New York University, takes a different view of the program.
"THESE KIDS," Reader's Digest quoted him as saying, "represent something many of us thought had disappeared from America — the old frontier spirit. They are skilled, resourceful, non-materialistic and definitely socially oriented."
Some of "these kids" will have a chance to take the Peace Corps examination Saturday in Room 3 of Green Hall. No pre-registration is necessary.
Blair Butterworth, a Peace Corps representative who spoke here last
week, urged seniors to take the examination.
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"IF YOU WANT A CHANCE to join the Peace Corps, apply now." he said. "Many of those now serving weren't sure of what they wanted to do when they applied. Take the test, and allow us to tell you whether you can be used or not—then you can make up your mind whether or not you really want to go."
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Members of the team pooled their $75 a month living allowance and bought medical supplies to run the clinic for a six-month trial period. They now have a medical adviser and funds to enlarge their clinic.
There also has been tragedy. Two men died last month in the crash of a Colombian airliner the first two fatalities arising from Peace Corps service.
Many of them indicate how well American youth can accept responsibility, providing a sharp contrast to the stories of soft living and flippant attitudes often heard.
ONE DAY IN PAKISTAN a Peace Corps volunteer, using his first aid kit, treated a native who had a cut finger. The next day two natives showed up to be treated for minor ailments, and the following day eight more applied. Almost inadvertently, the volunteers found themselves operating
WHEN DIRECTOR SHRIVER wired the news to the parents of one of the volunteers, he received this answer.
"Don't send flowers—send money. We're trying to raise enough to buy a tractor to send to the village where our son worked."
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