Monday, March 26.1962 University Daily Kansan
P-T-P Panel Urges Active Arguments
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International students yesterday encouraged the American student ambassadors who will travel in Europe next summer to "speak up for the U.S." in the discussions they will have with European students.
The action came in the first of a series of People-to-People sponsored "America from the Outside" discussion groups.
The students who spoke at the forum emphasized that American students may be called upon to answer questions about U.S. internal affairs as well as U.S. foreign policies.
"There are prejudices of one kind or another in every country," Jost Wehrli, St. Gallen, Switzerland, graduate student, said. "Don't be afraid to fight back.
"INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are not used to a passive argument." Wehrli said. "In fact, we don't like it. Sometimes American students feel that we are angry when we discuss things, but it is just that we sometimes get carried away—we like lively arguments."
"Americans swallow propaganda easier than any other people," Mayor said. "You should not be afraid to question and disagree with what anyone tells you."
Luis Mayor, Placetas, Cuba, junior, agreed with Wehrli.
ALTHOUGH SEVERAL SPECIFIC points were brought out, the segregation question drew most of the attention.
Truman Equates Birchers and KKK
BUFFALO, N.Y. — (UPI) — "Nothing but the Ku Klux Klan without nightgowns." That is how former President Truman described the John Birch Society.
Truman, who receives an honorary doctor of laws degree today from the Jesuit fathers at Canisius college, volunteered an opinion on Birchers but declined to be drawn into the controversy over former Vice President Richard Nixon's "carpetbagger" reference to President Kennedy's visit to California.
Truman said he saw no chance of a test ban agreement being reached at the current Geneva negotiations. He also indicated little hope for agreement in the immediate future.
"The main difficulty with dealing with the Russians is that they won't tell you the truth," he said.
Wehrli said that in many parts of Europe there are few Negroes, and Europeans do not understand the situation in the Southern U.S.
"If you tell them you are against segregation." Wehrli said, "They may ask, 'well, why don't you just do away with it?' They are puzzled by what they read about segregation in the U.S. You should know the arguments on both sides—especially the positions some Southern senators have taken on segregation."
Mayor said, "Europeans I have met here are sharp. They generally know what is going on in their countries. And even though sometimes the positions of their countries are hard to defend, they can do it. Some Germans I know can defend Germany's position in World War II better than most Americans can explain segregation in the U.S."
"We must remember that many Southerners feel they are solving the problem, and slowly overcoming segregation. They resent the federal government interfering with something they believe comes under state's rights. They feel that people from the North don't understand their problems because they haven't lived in the South.
CONSTANCE (CONSY) HUNTER, Hutchinson junior, made it clear that she does not defend segregation, but that in the position of student ambassadors, American students will have the responsibility of answering questions about many issues, including segregation.
"We need to be prepared to point out the progress we have made, and to explain that there are differing opinions in this country, depending on different localities and educational facilities."
Turning to another topic Wehrli said Europeans make a greater differentiation between socialism and communism that many Americans do.
"AMERICANS MAY BE ASKED questions about attitudes toward socialism." Wehrli said. "It is important that you know they are not necessarily talking about communism when they speak of socialism.
"Try to speak as distinctly as possible," Wehrli said. "We learn English pronunciation. Sometimes it becomes difficult for us to understand Americans from the midwest and the South if they do not speak clearly."
Anonymous Bureau in 1948 Arranged Date for 10 Cents
By Dorothy Burton
Having trouble finding dates?
Kansas University students in 1948 did not have this trouble because of the existence of a date bureau set up by an anonymous male student who had the approval of the women's adviser for his undertaking.
The rules for assistance from the bureau were simple. Anyone interested was to send his name, address, phone number, age, height, weight, color of hair, dancing ability, make of car if he had one, and a photograph to the Date Bureau and specify the night he wanted a date, and the type of date he desired.
A fee of ten cents was charged for each application, which covered the cost of registration. It entitled the applicant to one date. Each additional date through the bureau cost ten cents also.
The Date Bureau ended abruptly when the name of the KU founder was published in a local paper. After several weeks of publicity and many requests from the students the bureau was re-opened.
The date bureau also offered a
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If you need a date or need money you might consider establishing a date bureau. It could prove to be profitable both ways.
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Specialist Is From Boston U.
A former Boston University Human Relations Center staff member is the second full-time member of the KU human relations department.
He is Richard L. Burke, assistant professor of human relations, a specialist in small group theory and research, organization behavior, social perception and human relations training.
Prof. Burke served last year as a special lecturer in psychology at Boston University.
time KU human relations professors. Prof. Burke received his A.B. at City College of New York in 1954, his M.A. in 1958 and his Ph.D. from Boston University in January of this year.
He and Howard Baumgartel, associate professor of human relations and psychology, are the only full-
Prof. Burke was an instructor at Northwestern University in Boston, in the MIT School of Industrial Management and at the Boston University School of Nursing.
Prof. Burke, his wife and two children live at 933 Michigan.
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