Teacher Training Is Big Problem Parker Says
A professor of English at Indiana University, said last night that the number one problem for the foreign language profession is teacher training.
"We are a little late in this as well as in rockets, but we can catch up." William R. Parker, former chairman of the foreign language division of the U.S. Department of Education, said.
Prof. Parker will give the Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. tonight in Fraser Theater. He will speak on John Milton.
HE EMPHASIZED that language teachers in the future will have a new duty—a duty to teach people to teach themselves a foreign language.
Parker, who ten years ago convinced Americans that they would have to "talk" to people if they were going to lead the world, answered the five most difficult questions concerning the future of foreign language study.
Foreign language for how many? "My present answer is everybody," Parker said.
HOW MUCH FOREIGN language study should be offered? Parker's answer was, "two years for every high school student and more for those desiring it."
"Every high school should offer four to six years of language study and if possible two foreign languages. College-bound persons will need a minimum of four years as preparation for teaching, business administration abroad, and foreign service.
"Those students with interest and aptitude must be identified as soon as possible." Parker added, "so they can be counseled and encouraged to study a language for four to ten years."
WHEN SHOULD foreign language study begin? Since younger children learn a language quicker than older ones or adults, language study should begin as far back from the senior year as possible, Parker said.
"In my judgment," Parker said, "every major American university should now offer instruction in about 50 foreign languages and should be stockpiling materials for the instruction of 50 more, should they be needed."
What kind of instruction is needed? Parker said that although it is difficult to decide which of the present 3,000 languages will be most serviceable, the experience of learning a second language makes it easier to learn a third, fourth, and fifth. He said that the experience of learning the first foreign language should be made a rewarding experience so it would be an eye-opening introduction in the process of learning a foreign language.
HE ENCOURAGED teachers to stop thinking of themselves as instructors of a specific language and start thinking of themselves as foreign language teachers.
He also urged them to be open-minded about new methods and techniques and work steadily to improve their own language.
Nuclear Tests May Resume Tomorrow
WASHINGTON （UPI） Preparations for the resumption of U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests appeared to be moving into their final stages today.
Officials have said the series is tentatively scheduled to start tomorrow. Whether this happens may depend on the weather and technical developments at the Christmas Island Testing Range, 1,200 miles south of Hawaii.
The apparently imminent resumption of the U.S. tests came as the Russians threatened to fire "new types" of nuclear weapons if the United States does the same.
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Noon Election Count at 700
The chairman of the elections committee describes the turnout at this morning's ASC elections as "very strong."
Mel Saferstein, St. Joseph, Mo., graduate student and chairman of the committee, said, that 687 students had voted by 11:50 this morning. This is an increase of exactly 100 votes over the same time in last Spring's elections.
"If the current voting rate keeps up," Saferstein said. "There should be 1,400 votes by 5:15 this afternoon when the polls close for the day."
Chairman Clyde Doyle, D-Calif. and the other three sub-committee members entered a side entrance unseen by the demonstrators. Doyle, who said the closed sessions would involve "subversive activities" in this area, would not comment further about the inquiry.
Students Picket Security Hearing
ALMOST 100 STUDENTS from several colleges and universities in and around Los Angeles began picketing one half hour before the hearing started shortly after 11 a.m. They were joined through the morning by additional students and marchers representing two organizations whose members have been subpoenaed for this investigation.
Tuesday, April 24, 1962
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — A House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities opened four days of hearings under tight security restrictions here today while several hundred students and others picketed outside against the group.
The fifth floor of the Federal Building where the hearings were being conducted was restricted by Deputy U.S. Marshals to committee personnel and witnesses.
Those organizations are the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms and the Fair Play for Cuba committee.
It was reported that some 60 subpoenas had been issued to persons from those groups as well as from a student organization and local 2058 of the United Steelworkers Union.
MONITORS ASSIGNED by the picket leaders wore armbands, distributed leaflets and issued regulations which they said were aimed at keeping the demonstrations peaceful. Police said they knew of no planned disorder and said they thought student groups which favor the House Committee would confine their demonstrations to campuses.
Police kept the marchers within a path about three yards wide which was roped off along the entire length of the sidewalk outside the building. An equal amount of space was reserved for pedestrians and the wide space of sidewalk outside the main entrance was kept clear for the normal flow of persons using the building. A number of spectators formed to watch the pickets, however.
About a half hour after the picketting began, a motorist in a yellow station wagon drove alongside, shouting, "You're a traitor to your country, traitors every one of you." He kept driving while the pickets simply stared.
The pickets carried signs with slogans which included "Give 'em Hell, Subpoenaes," "Stop the Gestapo," "The Committee is Immoral." "Freedom Yes! Doyle and HUAC No." "Salem Witchhunt 1681, Judge Thatcher, Boston 1921, and HUAC 1962."
The precautionary measures were taken to prevent crowd scenes from erupting into violence like that which occurred when another such subcommittee held hearings in San Francisco in May. 1960. That episode was highlighted by police use of fire hoses on demonstrating students.
HE PRAISED his poll workers saying, "With the large number of ballots being cast, the poll workers are doing a fine job." This is an improvement over last semester when a polling place had to be closed for a time because of a lack of poll workers.
The polls opened about 15 minutes late this morning because of a mix up in the ballots. When the ballots were returned from the State printer in Topeka last night, the name of one student body president candidate was in capital letters and the other in small letters.
Because of this, the elections committee had to get the ballots reprinted by a local printer early this morning and put the voting numbers on by hand.
SAFERSTEIN SAID THAT three of the voting districts will need a marked increase in voting in order to get the number of votes required to be represented on the ASC. The constitution says that a district must have either 50 or one-half of the students enrolled in the school whichever is less, to be represented.
At 11:50, the School of Law had 18 of a required 50, the School of Journalism had seven of a needed 41, and the School of Pharmacy had only three of the 43 votes they need to get ASC representation.
"The rest of the districts seem assured of getting a seat," Saferstein said.
The freshmen are leading the other classes in voting for their class candidates. The current freshman class is voting for sophomore officers, the sophomores for junior officers and the juniors, and those seniors who will be returning next fall, for senior class officers.
the sophomore officer candidates have 253 votes,the junior aspirants 192 and the senior candidates.128.
The results of the ASC elections will not be known until tomorrow night when all the ballots will be counted.
The polls have been very active between classes with the lines thinning down during the class periods.
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Printer's 'Goof' Causes Reprint of 5,000 Ballots
The ASC elections were almost trapped in quicksands last night but wiggled out just in time to start the elections this morning — seventeen minutes late.
The problem which held up the election was the length of a name — Gerald (Kep) Kepner Jr.
Mel Saferstein, St. Joseph, Mo. graduate student and elections committee chairman, discovered last night that on the presidential ballots, Jerry Dickson's name appeared in large bold capital letters. His UP opponent's name, Kepner, was not in bold letters. The state printer had goofed.
Saferstein then arranged for new ballots to be printed . . . here in Lawrence. Some 5,000 ballots were printed, all night long, to take the place of the 5,000 ballots which had to be discarded.
Saferstein picked the ballots up this morning at 6:30. Then began the race of getting them punched
before the 8 a.m. deadline. (Each ballot has to be punched for counting and to prevent ballot reproduction.
Saferstein said the state printer made the mistake because the name Gerald (Kep) Kepner Jr. was too long to put on the ballot. The printer evidently reduced the name to small letters so it would fit on the ballot.
The new ballots have both presidential candidate's names in full and in capital letters . . . but in smaller type.
But it looks as though Saferstein's worries aren't over yet because the printer also left on the ballots the name of class officer candidates who have withdrawn from the election and merely crossed the name over with a grev line.
Saferstein said that if students vote for those candidates who have withdrawn from the race, the ballots will have to be counted by hand.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER—Mel Saferstein, St. Joseph, Mo., graduate student and election committee chairman, arrives at the polls 17 minutes late—with some of the freshly-reprinted and corrected ballots.
Nuclear Tests To Be Discussed By Professors
Four KU faculty members will discuss nuclear testing at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics; Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics; Charles Landesman, assistant professor of philosophy; and Richard Burke, assistant professor of human relations, will participate in the panel discussion sponsored by the Student Peace Union.
THE PANEL MEMBERS will present their opinions, question each other, and answer questions from the audience.
The discussion coincides with the date set for the resumption of nuclear testing by the United States.
Larry Laudan, Lawrence graduate student and acting chairman of the SPU, said, "This week is the week when this thing goes or not. If we can't take advantage of the interest created by nuclear testing we won't get started."
Laudan said the primary goal of the SPU is education.
"IT DOESN'T DO US, any good to talk to each other," he said.
to talk to each other," he said. "We've got to reach other people." Laudan said the group collected 327 names in two days last week on a petition against the resumption of nuclear testing by the United States. Forty faculty members were among those who signed the petition. Telegrams have been sent to President Kennedy, his advisers on disarmament, and Kansas' Representatives and Senators.
Laudan said new U.S. tests may well contribute to the spiraling arms race.
Laudan said some were afraid to sign the petition. He said he got such replies as, "I agree with what you are trying to do, but I don't think I can come to your meetings . . . My career might be jeopardized . . ."
"WHERE IS THIS going to take us?" he said. "The question is not where we are today but where we will be 10 years from now."
Laudan said the SPU will meet tomorrow night to plan activities or the next few weeks. They will decide whether to make a "peace walk" on campus to protest against J.S. testing after resumption.
HE SAID HE received a long distance telephone call from the national SPU office saying they expect 45,000 to 50,000 students to participate in such walks in the United States this week if testing is resumed.
(The SPU did not officially endorse this afternoon's protest march by Charles McReynolds, Coffeyville graduate student. However, Laudan said this morning that several SPU members were planning to take part in the march.)
He said the local chapter of the SPU will distribute pamphlets explaining their position on nuclear testing.
Graduate Gets Fulbright Aid
The grant which will enable Miss Wright to study French history at the University of Nancy, Faculty des Lettres, provides round-trip transportation, orientation, tuition, books and maintenance.
Janet Wright, Prairie Village graduate student, has received a Fulbright grant for study in France next year.
Miss Wright, a history and sociology major, graduated with distinction in February, 1962, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa last week. She has been president of Mortar Board, senior women's honorary society; chairman of the Elizabeth M. Watkins scholars, highest all-University honor accorded undergraduate women, and president of Junior Panhellenic.
Earlier this month, Miss Wright was named an alternate Woodrow Wilson scholar for study at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France.