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(Continued from page 1) Kansan for maturity and responsi- bility.
"TISHS AWARD highlights the role an independent and free student newspaper can play when it is confronted with a situation that calls for mature and responsible action."
The Kansan won the award for a series of editorials discussing discrimination at KU. Three years ago the Kansan pointed to discrimination in the way in which a University housing list was drawn up. At that time separate lists of landlords willing to rent to KU students were kept for Negro and white students. When the practice was called to the attention of the administration, it was immediately stopped.
In October of 1960 the Kansan's attention was called to its own practices. It was discovered that the Kansan was printing advertisements which promoted discrimination in housing. The governing board of the Kansan unanimously resolved to ban such advertising. An editorial explaining the Kansan's decision said:
"The newspaper can only keep faith with the ideals of racial equality and actively reflect them in its editorial matter. We believe that if discriminatory matter is banned from our newspaper, we may, in a small way at least, contribute to the spirit of tolerance."
THIS YEAR THE Kansan became concerned with the listing of discriminatory renters on the University's housing list and urged the discontinuance of this practice. On Wednesday, Nov. 8, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced that discriminatory landlords would no longer be listed on the University housing list. A Kansan editorial the following day called the new housing policy, "the most significant advancement in human rights the administration has made since W. Clarke Wescoe assumed the chancellorship.
"The revised University policy concerning the housing list is a barometer of the desire of the University and student body for progress in the field of civil rights. However, the new housing list policy is but a small step in a long march toward complete racial equality."
This is the second major national award the University student newspaper has received in the last year. Last year, the Kansan reporters and editorial writers won first place for the School of Journalism in the
Cambridge Staffer To Lecture Here
A senior staff member of the Cambridge University Library in England will give a public lecture at 3 pm, April 5 in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union.
J. C. T. Oates will discuss the 18th century author Laurence Sterne. He will speak on "The Sterne Vogue, 1760-1890," and will present a group of Sterne songs recently taped in England.
Mr. Oates is a former editor and the author of articles and reviews on bibliographical and literary subjects.
Stockpiling Action Soon
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The White House said today that President Kennedy is ready to act to correct what he considers the alarming federal stockpile of strategic materials.
Kennedy's Commitment to Help South Viet Nam Weighed Carefully
By Charles W. Corddry
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—A war is under way in South Viet Nam and every day the United States is getting more deeply involved.
It conceivably could bring on a major confrontation with Communist China.
But the fact remains that the Kennedy administration has weighed all the risks and decided that South Viet Nam must be held against the attacks of Communist guerrillas.
One question the administration had to ask before it made the commitment was this: Will Red China become involved?
THE DECISION HAS BEEN that the answer is no. The administration has decided that Communist China is not likely to move in openly and actively.
The result has been that U.S. involvement has been carried out in semi-secrecy. It is the first big test of the administration's strategy of counter-guerrilla operations in the peripheral areas of the free world where the Communists hope to take over by indirect aggression and subversion.
In the administration view, the Communists have resorted to this tactic out of fear that even Koreatype conventional war could grow into a nuclear holocaust.
ONE REASON THE United States does not think Communist China will intervene is said to be the certainty — conveyed to Peiping through neutral channels — that active intervention would bring decisive Western reaction. This in turn could precipitate a major conflict.
This theory has its opponents, one of whom is Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. In an interview last week with William R. Frwe, United Nations correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, Nehru
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said there was danger of "large scale intervention" in response to U.S. aid in South Viet Nam.
To the fans Jim Pierisall is a hot-tempered screwball. But to his wife, he's "calm and sensible, an understanding husband." In this week's Post, Mary Pierisall tells how the fans made Jim "a marked man." Says how close he came to a breakdown in 1960. And why she's confident about this season. The Saturday Evening
In its effort to avoid this, the United States is steering a cautious course of all out aid but no outright employment of combat forces.
THERE IS CONFIDENCE this will work, and that the United States can avoid the next dilemma of either all out conflict with U.S. Forces, or the abandonment of South Viet Nam. It is held that this loss could mean the collapse of all of Southeast Asia.
No official will acknowledge how many U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen are in South Viet Nam to aid a native army that is expanding to 200,000 men.
But the current accepted figure is more than 4,000. This apparently means that there is one American for every five or six Communist Viet Cong guerrillas.
Sometimes it almost seems that U.S. spokesmen explaining the American position resort to the "doublethink" practiced in George Orwell's novel, 1884. This requires someone to accept two contradictory ideas at once — such as that Americans are not engaging in combat, but do go on combat missions with Vietnamese troops and shoot if they are shot at. The Americans are providing the Vietnamese as realistic on-the-job training as probably ever has been given soldiers.
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A member of Israel's largest independent morning daily newspaper, the Haaretz, said Sunday the outcome of the Cold War will determine if there will be unity in the Middle East.
Newsman Says Cold War Will Decide Mid-East Unity
He is Shabtai Tevet who is currently on a three month lecture tour of the United States. He is visiting more than 30 colleges and universities. He addressed about 60 persons in the Kansas Room on "Israel and the Middle East."
He said that Nasser is attempting to build a united Arab world. "Nasser is a brilliant stateman who makes few mistakes," he said.
The journalist said that Nasser is trying to unite the Asian Arab states with Egypt to form an Arab union. Eight years ago, he said, Syria united with Egypt, but in 1958, Egypt separated from Syria.
After Nasser attempted to unite the Arab world various independent states, including Israel and Tunisia, refused to join with Egypt. Although Nasser failed in this attempt, he did
Tevet said that four months ago Nasser received his biggest setback. This was when Syria seceded from the United Arab Republic. This meant that unity in the Arab world will be delayed for an indefinite period.
not lose his respect and popularity with the people.
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