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University Daily Kansan Monday. April 30,1962
Festival Saturday To Feature Skits Cultural Displays
The annual International Festival to be held Saturday in Hoch Auditorium, will feature an international disc jockey show and cultural displays from 15 foreign countries.
KU People-to-People will also have an exhibit at the festival.
The festival is sponsored by a group of international students under the direction of Clark Coan, assistant dean of students, and international student adviser.
The festival is open to the public without admission charge. The exhibits will open at 4:30 p.m. They will be closed during the evening program, but will be open again afterwards.
Margaret Cameron, Stirling, Scotland, graduate student, and Esmeraldino Oliverira, Pernambuco, Brazil, graduate student will act as M.C.'s for the evening program. "Nuptials Around the World."
The program will begin at 7:30 p.m., and will feature wedding skims depicting various international wedding customs.
Examples of the wedding themes include "An Indian Marriage," "Greek Wedding Party" and "A Scale of Happiness (German)."
Members of the festival steering committee include Vinodchandra A. Patel, Baroda, India, special student; Pedro Bonet, Huesca, Spain, graduate student; Yamuna Narayanan, Madras, India, junior; Sinan M. Kuraner, Istanbul, Turkey, graduate student.
Mesobalaje Labode, Abeokuta,
Nigeria, freshman; Jose Alvarez,
Mexico D. F., Mexico, graduate student,
and A. A. Abdul-Rahim,
Damascus, Svivia, graduate student.
Other entertainment during the evening will feature song and dance numbers from Israel, Latin America, Africa, the Philippines and India.
Before and after the floor show, Jalal Razzak, a special student from Baghdad, Iraq, will act as a disc jouney, playing music from Iran, Chile, India, Argentina, Germany, Chile, Iceland, Poland, Greece, Tanganyika, Indonesia, Burma and other foreign nations.
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World Crisis Question Is Dormant as Various Other Topics Are Discussed
A view that United States citizens have over-simplified their enemy was one of a myriad of subjects discussed at a meeting last night sponsored by the World Crisis Committee.
Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science, said that an example of this simplified view is seen in certain groups whose remedy for U.S. problems would be a simple matter of getting rid of "Reds" in the U.S.
Felix Moos, instructor of anthropology, said that this same thinking was shown in Nazi Germany where Hitler preached that ridding Germany of Jews would be a solution. Moos spent 20 years in Germany when it existed as a totalitarian state.
Tom Moore, director of the KU-Y. said that the United States is a large enough country that its citizens easily gain the false idea that the entire world is similar to the United States, especially as concerns our standard of living.
"You can tell a person that the average yearly wage in Nigeria is $40 and it doesn't make any impression. They fail to comprehend it as a fact." Moore said.
The informal discussion attended by 13 persons fluidly moved from the principal topic, "World in Crisis - Why?" to such questions as the degree of each individual responsibility for their actions and conversely their inactions.
No concrete attempt was made to reach an academic answer to the question of why the world is in crisis. Whether the world was indeed even in crisis was debated by Moos who viewed the present world tension as simple repetition of history.
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Often during the discussion the participants broke into the conversation with the point that they were digressing from the stated topic.
Moos said at one point in the two and a half hour meeting, "We're going around in circles."
"You sure are," said a lady in the
backrow as she closed her eyes and propped her head with a hand, in turn supported by an elbow resting on an adjoining chair.
The prior publicity for the discussion stated that no academic answer would come from the informal gathering. The meeting lived up to its advanced billing.
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