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Humor and Pathos Seen in Strike By 500 Korean School Children
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
There was something pathetic yet simultaneously humorous in the dispatches from Seoul which told of 500 grade school children demonstrating against a decision reached by their elders.
The pathos arises from the fact that they simply were aping the acts of their older brothers and sisters in adopting a means of pressure which has become more and more a way of life in the republic of Korea's fumbling efforts to make itself a self-sustaining democracy.
Demonstrations by college students throughout Korea led to the fall of the Syngman Rhee government which admittedly had grown old and corrupt. In these demonstrations which occurred in the spring of 1960, nearly 200 students died, more than 6,000 were injured and 200 maimed.
The demonstration didn't get very far because these children were still possessed by a certain amount of awe for authority.
When police sternly told them to go back to school, they promptly did so.
Within a year, the students were
back in the streets again, this time demanding the resignation of the government headed by Premier John M. Chang.
The Chang government had proved itself a weak substitute for the Rhee regime. Whatever else the faults of the Rhee government, a tolerance of Communism had not been among them. Under Chang, Communists from Japan and North Korea streamed into the country, reactivating their cells in every district of Seoul, in Pusan, Inchon and other cities.
Now once more, the students are in the streets.
In May, 1961, after only a year in power, the Chang government fell to a military junta which remained in power until last winter's elections by which junta leader Chung Hee Park switched from his military role to that of civilian president.
Already the student demonstrators appear to have destroyed any chance of any early successful conclusion to the long drawout negotiations seeking to normalize relations between South Korea and Japan. Their complaints run all the way from opposition to geisha houses to
new charges of corruption within the government.
At the root of their discontent is the country's growing economic difficulties and the scarcity of jobs for college graduates who pour out of Korean schools at the rate of more than 30,000 a year.
Tuesday, May 5, 1964
Unemployment continues to rise and many of Korea's large and small industries are operating at less than half capacity.
Despite continuing heavy United States aid, the government has been unable to cope either with these difficulties or to carry out frequently promised reforms, including an investigation of financial scandals that arose under the previously ruling military junta.
In the middle is President Chung Hee Park.
Korea's failure to solve its difficulties encourages both violence and a rule far more democratic. Close to President Park is another veteran on the 1961 coup. He is Kim Chong Pil, a former head of secret police whom some suspect of ambitions to become a Korean strong man.
Members of six KU fraternities and sororites will be knocking on doors in Lawrence and Baldwin tonight asking for contributions for the Douglas County Multiple Sclerosis Hope Chest.
Students to Aid City MS Drive
Their interest in the fund drive, according to Jay Strayer, Shawnee Mission senior and coordinator for the Lawrence drive, is caused partially by the fact that "multiple sclerosis strikes people largely in our age group."
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Professor Receives Grant For Study in East Asia
Dr. Grant Goodman, associate professor of history and of East Asian studies at the University of Kansas, has received a federal grant to study for 10 months in Japan and the Philippines.
Professor Goodman will conduct research under the first "National Defense Education Act-related Fulbright-Hays award" to a KU faculty member. His study will be concerned with pre-World War II relations between Japan and the Philippines, with special attention to cultural and political contacts.
The award provides a stipend equal to his KU salary, plus travel to and from the Far East. It was given to him in connection with the existence of an N.D.E.A. Center for East Asian studies.
Besides conducting research, Professor Goodman will present a paper at the International Conference of Asian Historians Aug. 30-Sept. 5 in Hong Kong. His paper it titled "A Flood of Immigration': Patterns and Problems of Japanese Migration to the Philippines During the First Four Decades of the 20th Century."
Professor Goodman, who joined the KU faculty in 1662, has held two Fulbright awards. One was a graduate scholarship in the Netherlands (1952-53) and the other, a lecture-ship at the University of the Philippines (1959-60).
He is the author of "An Experiment in Wartime Intercultural Exchange: Philippine Students in Japan, 1943-45," a monograph published by Cornell (1962), and "Japan in Philippine Politics, 1931-41," published in Studies on Asia by the University of Nebraska Press (1963).
Engineers to Hear Wescoe Address
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will address the Mid-Continent Conference of civil engineers at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union to conclude the two-day engineers' conference here Friday and Saturday.
The engineers will be given a tour of one of the missile pads in the Atlas Missile complex in Kansas the afternoon before the chancellor's speech.
Registration for the convention begins Friday morning in the Kansas Union, followed by presentation of research papers on engineering and a buffet supper in the evening.
Saturday morning there will be a business meeting of the Mid-Conti-nent Conference where officers for the next year will be elected.
The Man-Miles engineering award and several awards for the research papers presented will be announced following the Saturday night dinner.
The University is making dormitory accommodations available to visiting engineers.
Law Queen to be PickedSaturday
By Tom Moore
The Green Hall girl watchers will move from their favorite post Saturday morning to watch the choosing of their queen for the KU School of Law's Fun Day from 16 candidates in bathing suits at 10 a.m. in Fraser theater.
Their queen will be crowned "Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur," which translates from Latin as "let the facts speak for themselves." The Law Queen will reign over remaining law activities of the year.
The two candidates for president of the student bar will speak following the rites of crowning the queen. They are Bill Howard, Augusta, and Don Culp, Kansas City, both second year law students.
The SOB Award will be presented to the professor that the law students think gives the toughest exams, according to Cal Bender, Lawrence second year law student and president of the student bar association.
The award will be followed by the traditional senior law student skit.
After the skit in Fraser Theater, law students and their dates or dependents will migrate to Charles Oldfather's, professor of law, farm for a picnic, followed by a barn dance and party.
Fun Day had originally been meant for just the senior law students when it was begun about 10 years ago. Bender said, but now the whole school participates.
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