Organization campaigns to increase activities and student involvement
The Community Service Clearing House, an organization created last fall to give students an opportunity to do volunteer work for agencies which operate community projects, has begun a campaign to increase its activities and student involvement in the program.
Joan Frederick, Webster Groves, Mo., graduate student and director at the clearing house, explained this week that the organization was working to obtain more funds "once it has shown its worth."
A major problem with the project, which was started with $750 from the Student Activities Fund, is lack of transportation, Miss Frederick said. She explained that students working on various community projects must provide their own transportation.
The organization is presently working to support a part-time employee in the office, located at the United Campus Christian Fellowship, 1204 Oread.
Miss Frederick said the office was used primarily to maintain files listing KU and Lawrence volunteers and community services which apply for volunteer workers.
The clearing house operation is divided into four areas, she explained: liaison with service agencies, administrators, volunteer recruitment, and volunteer screening and orientation. She said the organization still was making concentrated efforts to find faculty and municipal representatives for the four divisions.
Columbia U. professor gives 'violent' lecture
Jacques Barzun, Columbia University professor, gave the last in this year's series of Humanities Lectures when he spoke on "Violence and the Cult of the Arts," last night in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
After an introduction by Francis Heller, dean of faculties, Barzun said his visit at KU was the first since he was here in 1944. He said at that time, he consulted with the committee which was planning the Western Civilization program at KU.
Barzun asked, "Why is violence so attractive? Violence has replaced love, compassion, reverence and awe in the arts.
Barzun's lecture centered around the evolution of art in the 20th century. "The advent of the mass media has made art into an everyday commodity," he said.
Barzun said art has replaced religion in the last 175 years, with the artist as, "the only creature who knows what life is."
He described the four phases art has gone through since the Romantic Age as ridicule, contempt, insult and hatred.
"Speaking somewhat lower than art, the intellectual game of baseball in the United States has been replaced by the organized massacre of professional football and hockey.
"Even greeting cards display affection on the cover, but when they are opened-insult!" he said.
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The screening group interviews applicants and provides information to acquaint them with community needs, Miss Frederick said. Applicants are briefed about their duties and placed according to community needs.
After volunteers are placed, the organization checks periodically with their service organizations to evaluate student performance, she added.
of fields, she said. Students have tutored children, taught English to foreign students and worked with Head Start and day-care centers, she said.
Miss Frederick said the organization's latest project, Ring-a-Day, would employ volunteer students to regularly call elderly persons living alone. She said the number of calls would depend on personal wishes of the persons being called.
from Lawrence and KU. Faculty members on the organization's advisory board are Mrs. Frank Shavlik, assistant dean of women; Bradford Sheafor, professor of social work, and Henrietta Waters, professor of social work.
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