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University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 22. 1962
The Geneva Conference
A few weeks before the Geneva conference, President Kennedy stood firm on his desire to not start a summit conference until representatives of the 18 governments had smoothed out the path for the government heads.
The conference got off to an immediate bad start by France's refusal to attend. It already appeared that rough sailing lay ahead.
Developments at the conference Tuesday put Kennedy in a much tighter position than even he probably expected.
The British foreign secretary, Lord Home, told Russia that Britain is willing to cut enforcement machinery to the "absolute minimum" in order to get a test ban agreement.
HOME INTRODUCED the idea of a "sampling technique of inspection." Under this system, inspectors would visit at random some geographical areas of a nuclear power, but would not check the whole country.
The British solution to the inspection problem creates a new area of crisis for President Kennedy. The United States has long insisted on open international inspection of a country's whole area.
The British statement can easily cause a split of the Western allies, specifically the United States and Britain.
If Kennedy does not go along with the British solution, the propaganda potential of the Communist bloc will be greatly increased, especially in view of the United States' plan to resume atmospheric nuclear tests next month.
SO FAR the United States has remained noncommittal on Britain's concession to Soviet demands for non-inspection. After Home proposed Britain's solution, Secretary of State Dean Rusk issued a statement saying the critical problem on a test ban treaty is how to get "the necessary amount of objective international scientific information and inspection."
His statement hints that the United States will be taking a close look at the British "sampling" plan. But right now the British proposal has caused a split between the United States and her strongest ally.
How Kennedy resolves his side of the problem should make an interesting contribution to the history of international politics. —Karl Koch
The Journalism School Issue
The department of journalism at Kansas State University and the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU received severe criticism last week from Whitley Austin, publisher of the Salina Journal and a member of the Board of Regents. Mr. Austin suggested that the department at Kansas State should be incorporated in the English department and that the School of Journalism at KU should be reduced to a department of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This, he asserted, would give the journalism students at the two universities a liberals arts background.
Now it is an admirable idea that journalism students should have a liberal arts background. It is so admirable in the opinion of the School of Journalism that its students have long had to meet the College's requirements in English, Western Civilization, speech, biological sciences, foreign language and distribution of courses.
THE BASIC PROBLEM with Mr. Austin's charges is that they are unsubstantiated generalities which can be easily disproved.
Mr. Austin also charged that some of the faculty at the KU School of Journalism are incompetent. This charge ignores the fact that the School has been accredited by the American Council on Education for Journalism (an organization consisting half of educators and half of practicing journalists). Mr. Austin did not attempt to substantiate this charge either.
AS A SIDELIGHT, we might note that four of Mr. Austin's staff at the Salina Journal are KU graduates. This is true despite the fact that he could have hired graduates from other journalism schools, liberal arts graduates (since the need for a liberal arts background was one of his main points) or experienced journalists to build his staff.
Mr. Austin's charges appear to be whimsical notions that occurred to him in some of his idle moments. Their lack of substantiation and disregard for actualities do not qualify them as anything else. —William H. Mullins
An Incident at the AUFS Lectures Editor:
The first line of my general beliefs, as a student and as a journalist, was always: "Knowledge is for everybody." And it was my pleasure, as well as my gratitude, to find myself always able to enjoy practicing this belief throughout my schooling days at KU.
Though I am enrolled in courses which would qualify me as a candidate for a Master's degree in journalism, yet I was always keen to attend other activities and lectures in different fields and subjects in which I might be interested.
I was always admiring KU for its many lecturers and visitors from other universities and various areas who, however, offered us the chance to gain extra knowledge and better understanding.
I had to have a copy of Mr. Gallagher's schedule from Professor Heller's office. I found myself interested to hear numbers of his lectures. Besides my obvious interest, as an Arab, to hear about my country from a non-Arab speaker, I felt so much interested,
THIS WEEK I heard about Mr. Charles F. Gallagher's 10 day visit to the campus. Mr. Gallagher is an American Universities Field Staff member. His field is "The Arab World." Unfortunately Mr. Gallagher was scheduled to speak only in regular classes and none of his lectures was arranged to be in the Music room or the Forum room, as it is usually expected, for the interest of the general students in the campus.
as a graduate student in journalism, to learn from the scholarly studies of a field staff professor, about one of the main spots in the world news today. I believe that we, everybody, have to look at our faces in other's mirrors, not always to defend ourselves, but more important, to realize ourselves! With that belief I went on to get permissions from Professors Ericksen, Laird, Pickett and Kuchler to attend their classes during Mr. Gallagher's lectures. They all welcomed me and I was expecting that. The thing which I did not expect and what surprised me indeed was when I went to attend a 3 p.m. Graduate seminar in Regional Geography in 322 Lindley:
THE TEACHER. Professor Kuchler, said that he did not mind my attendance. I thanked him and was about to step in the class room when Mr. Gallagher stopped me by saying in front of the class:
I really felt funny rather than embarrassed. "Personal things???" I whispered to myself. I held my step at the door and excused myself out of the whole Lindley building!
Yet I am still feeling funny and wondering what could be personal in science? What or whatever geography is? What could be THAT personal that some students might hear and some others might not?
"I think it would be better not to be with us, we are going to discuss personal things."
I WAS SURE that Mr. Gallagher was going to talk about a certain
geographical topic which concerned the Arab world, and was not going to give the secret of the American atomic bomb. And I was sure, however, that I am not a Soviet spy! I was trusted enough to be a member in this institution, in other words to be a student in MY University of Kansas!
If Mr. Gallagher were going to say factual things about my country, the Arab Nation, I would have been very thankful to learn them from him—facts, whatever they may be, they never cause offense!
P. S. I am not complaining, I am just curious!
Mr. Gallagher knew that I was an Arab. He asked me if I were from the Middle East, and I told him that I am an Arab from Cairo. I don't think that this—if it did—should have bothered him.
Safynaz Kazem
Cairo, U.A.R.
graduate student
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From the Magazine Rack
A Look at Goldwater
Arguing such points with the Senator would produce little clarification. Many have tried to debate with Senator Goldwater. It is a little like running a race with a man who is running on a different track. For example, if he were to say that the moon is made of green cheese and therefore there is no point in sending a man to the moon because what could we do with green cheese—you might reply: "But the moon isn't made of green cheese." Or, if you are more cautious, "I don't think it is, and anyway let's find out."
NOW HOW would he reply to that? He wouldn't reply at all. He would merely restate the self-evident proposition that the moon is made of green cheese. This is an old device, long a favorite of politicians, the device of proof by definition. Thus, one sets forth a premise (it is not described as a premise, it is described as a fact): the more government, the less freedom. To anyone interested in genuine discussion, that is a proposition to be tested against experience. For example, was Hitler the result of too powerful a Weimar regime? Was Lenin the result of too powerful a Kerensky regime? And by freedoms precisely what is meant? These would be questions to consider in debate. But one does not engage Mr. Goldwater on these grounds.
He very devoutly believes that power corrupts. Some power. Not the power to run a business without governmental interference. Not
the FBI's power. Not the power of the 50 states—that should be increased.
THE POWER that corruits is wielded by labor unions and the federal government. Each battens on the greedy side of our natures. In return for their favors, we give them our souls, and thus we swing "down the well-traveled road to absolutism." The nation today is menacled by "a Leviathan, a vast national authority out of touch with the people and out of their control. This monolith of power is bounded only by the will of those who sit in high places." Not high places in New York or Pittsburgh or Detroit, not in state legislatures, not in General Motors or the headquarters of the American Medical Association. In Washington.
Mr. Goldwater fears "the accumulation of power in a central government that is remote from the people" —remote geographically, He seems to believe that the nearer one is physically to the "seat of power," the more he is in the driver's seat. A really "free" nation would be governed to the maximum extent possible by the smallest possible units—beginning with the family, then perhaps the Town Meeting. The disenfranchisement of people in the states through gerrymandering and rotten boroughs, the corruption of the cities are something to which he never alludes.
(Excerpted from an article by Gilbert A. Harrison in The New Republic)
GREEN MANSIONS, by W. H. Hudson (Bantam Classics, 60 cents).
Few novels have the magic of this one, and one does not have to be a confirmed escapist to enjoy it. It has the fine-woven quality of a spider web yet the lasting power of steel.
By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
It stays with one for years. When other novels have been forgotten, the story of the birdlike Rima of the Amazon rain forest remains. Is it an incredible tale? Yes, but this does not matter. One can laugh at Tarzan but believe in Rima.
"... once, for a moment, she raised herself to reach her finger nearer to the bird, and then a gleam of unsubdued sunlight fell on her hair and arm, and the arm at that moment appeared of a pearly whiteness, and the hair just where the light touched it, had a strange lustre and play of iridescent colour."
Thus Hudson describes Rima. When Rima is sacrificed by the natives, who have learned she is human after all, one feels a sense of loss while understanding that this is how such stories must end.
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