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Vocal Concerts Raising $1,600 To Send Student to Hong Kong
By Jackie Helstrom
(Assistant Managing Editor)
It takes a lot of incentive to make someone work hard enough to earn money so they can have the opportunity to work some more.
Banks has been chosen to take part in a project, sponsored by the National Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and the West Central Area YMCA, that includes a summer workshop and seminar in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony.
But Lacy Banks, Kansas City senior, has found that incentive—a trip to Hong Kong.
HE IS RAISING the $1,600 necessary for expenses by presenting a series of vocal concerts. Up to now he has given one here, at the Wesley Foundation, and one in Kansas City at Summer high school from which he was graduated.
From these concerts and private contributions he already has collected over $1,000; he expects to have the rest by the end of the month.
The workshop-seminar in which Banks was chosen to participate will include ten students from nine different schools across the United States. The other schools from which participants were selected are the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth university, West Point Military Academy, University of Nebraska, Iowa State university, University of Illinois, University of Washington, and McPherson College.
THE PROGRAM they will follow will include six weeks in Hong Kong for a workshop and seminar and one and a half weeks each in Manila and Tokyo for additional seminars.
The workshops in Hong Kong, Banks said, would probably resemble the work being done by the Peace Corps in other areas of Asia in both projects and living conditions of the participating students.
Hong Kong is a city plagued by the problem of overpopulation because of the constant flow of refugees out of Communist China.
BANKS SAID the British government at present is in the process of building large housing complexes to take these people off the streets. Each house will hold 5,000 people by putting families of five to seven people in $12_{1/2}$ x $10_{1/2}$ cubicles.
The construction of these houses is to be the main project for Bank's group.
In addition to the building, the students will also help out as instructors for the classes in methods
of modern living, which the British government is holding on the roofs of these housing projects.
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"THE HOUSING accommodations may not sound very good by our standards," Banks commented, "but they are better than sleeping on the rocks or in the sewers."
The seminars will give the students a chance to exchange views, philosophies and ideas on world problems with students from the East.
Our living conditions, while we are there, may not be much better, he added. He said that he has heard from others who have gone in the past that the housing was not too good and the food was worse.
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"ALTHOUGH Hong Kong is a British Crown Colony and one of
He said he felt the opportunity of discussing world problems with them would give him a greater insight into the difference between the East and the West.
"I have always tried to communicate across racial and cultural barriers, and am sure that this experience will do much to broaden my knowledge of living conditions in the world as well," he said.
the few British colonies that has not pressed for its independence, the people there are Chinese," Banks said.
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Banks also said that the trip would probably offer him one other valuable reward; the chance to pick up some of those bargains in hand tailored suits that you always hear are available in Hong Kong.
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The German educator, head of the Office for Foreign Students and Foreign Affairs at Bonn, also is meeting KU students chosen for next year's Junior Year program and direct exchange students.
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