Friday, May 1, 1964
University Daily Kansan
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Bloodthirsty Onlookers Depict Society's Sore
By Louis Cassels United Press International
A few weeks ago, in a quiet residential neighborhood of New York, 38 people watched a killer stalk a defenseless woman.
It took him half an hour—and three separate attacks—to complete the brutal business of stabbing her to death. During that time, any one of the onlookers might have saved her life simply by picking up the telephone and calling the police.
Not one of them lifted a finger to help her. As they explained later to police, they didn't want to get involved."
ON APRIL 13, nearly 3,000 people gathered in the streets around the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in Albany, N.Y., to watch an emotionally distraught 19-year-old boy face back and forth along a narrow ledge on the 11th floor.
"Go ahead and jump," somebody yelled. "Don't be chicken, jump," shouted another spectator.
"Jump, jump jump," chanted a crowd of boys in unison.
When police finally pulled the
boy to safety, members of the crowd made no secret of their disappointment. "They really wanted to see him die." said a fireman, shaking his head in disbelief.
WHAT DO THESE episodes reveal about the mental and spiritual health of our urban society? What do they say about the state of religion in America?
UPI sought answers to these questions from a famous psychiatrist, a Protestant editor, a Roman Catholic bishop, and a Jewish rabbi.
Dr. Robert H. Felix, director of the National Institute of Mental Health and past president of the American Psychiatric Association, said both incidents demonstrate the "dehumanizing" effects of life in an urban environment where relationships tend to become increasingly impersonal.
"One of the marks of a fully civilized human being is a capacity for empathy and compassion toward others," he said. "People who stand by and watch a helpless woman be murdered, or exhort a
Thirteen Students Given Finland Institute Grant
Thirteen KU students are among those from 14 schools to be chosen to study Russian June 10-Aug. 21 at a summer language institute in Finland.
The institute is a two-year-old cooperative program of KU and the University of Colorado, and is held under a Carnegie Corporation grant of $67,000 for three summers. Thirteen students from each cooperating institution are among those chosen this year.
THE 40 WILL study intermediate or advanced Russian in the community of Jarvenpaa, Finland, which contains a substantial Russian population. The climax to their program will be a two-week study tour of the Soviet Union at the end of the summer.
The participants will have nearly ideal conditions for learning the
ProgramHonors Spanish Writer
The 40th annual Cervantes Day will be tomorrow in Fraser Hall in memory, of the author of "Don Quijote."
Following a 9 a.m. coffee, Marcos A. Morinigo, a specialist on Spanish and Spanish-American philology from the University of Illinois, will speak on "Cervantes y la Retorica" at 10 a.m. in Fraser Theater.
Also at 10 a.m. the movie "Subida al Cielo" will be shown in Bailey Auditorium. The film will be repeated at 7:30 p.m. All morning demonstrations of equipment, tapes and film strips will be shown in the sound room and in 110 Fraser.
A variety program will be held at 2 p.m. in Fraser Theater. At 4:30 p.m. Dr. Morinigo will lecture on "El Impacto del Español sobre las Lenguas Indigenas Americanas" in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
About 400-500 students from more than 30 schools in the area will attend the Cervantes Day programs. The event is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and the Kansas Chapter of American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Russian language. They will live and study together in a school building, made available to them by the city commission of Jarvenpaa.
Their instructors will be S. F. Anderson of KU, assistant professor of Slavic language, and Father George Benigsen of Colorado, plus four Russian-speaking natives of the Finnish community. Each student will be required to speak only Russian.
Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein, editor of Christianity Today magazine, said the incidents are symptomatic of the "callousness" which is widespread in contemporary society.
Nyle Miller, Topeka senior; Janice Peavey, Wichita sophomore; Letha Schwiesow, Shawnee Mission junior; Peter Shrager, New York, N.Y., graduate student; Kenneth Smith, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Margarete Stolzenbach, Lawrence junior, and Evelyn Thomas, Baltimore, Md., graduate student.
The 13 from KU chosen to participate in the 1964 institute are Carolyn Berneking, Lawrence junior; Henry F. Bisbee, Toledo, Ohio, sophomore; William Getz, Newton junior; Neil Johnson, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; William Kuhike, Lawrence graduate student; John Maloney, Lawrence junior.
boy to commit suicide to provide them with a thrill, are acting in a way that can only be described as sub-human."
"WE HAVE BECOME hardened—perhaps even addicted—to violence," he said. "The dreadful wars we have been through seem to have cheapened the value we place on a human life."
A recital of American music will be presented to the International Club by Sigma Alpha Iota, women's music fraternity in the regular meeting at 8 p.m., Friday, in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, Norma Renuvan. Junction City senior said
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Refreshments and dancing in the Jayhawk Room will follow the program.
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Rabbis Hirsch said unconcern for human suffering is totally incompatible with America's claim to be a "nation under God."
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nan, auxiliary Catholic bishop of Washington, D.C., said the incidents show that the Judeo-Christian concept of brotherly love is a practical necessity for decent community life.
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One of the first ethical questions raised in the Bible is, 'Am I my brother's keeper?' he said. "And the whole Bible answers, yes."
It stands for Scholarship Money's Our Purpose. In 1961, the initials also stood for Support Merrily Our Project.
Since its beginning, 12 names have been added to the memorial. The latest name to be added is that of Carole Jean Whiting, LaGrange, Ill. senior, who was killed in an automobile accident, April 4, Near Canton, Ala.
Without it, he said, "our attitudes toward one another quickly degenerate into a kind of neutralism, in which we think of our neighbor only as a potential nuisance."
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Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch, director of the Social Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington, said that "unwillingness to 'get
In 1948, the scholarship was called the KU Women's Memorial Scholarship. Later, the name was changed to AWS Memorial Scholarship. In 1960, the name became popularly known as the SMOP scholarship.
What started as a tragedy has resulted in the AWS Memorial Scholarship Fund.
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THE SMOP SCHOLARSHIPS will be awarded at All Women's Night, Monday, May 4 in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
On November 23, 1948, two KU women, Fredrika Ekblad and Geraldine Cuddy, were killed in a Thanksgiving vacation automobile accident near McPherson.
The student-initiated scholarship, awarded annually at the AWS All Women's Night, was established on Dec. 2 of the same year. The scholarship is intended to perpetuate the memory of all women students whose academic careers are ended by death.
Conceived in Tragedy AWS to Award Scholarship
BASIS FOR SELECTION includes need, scholarship and leadership in the living group and on campus. The applicant must have been in residence at KU for at least a semester at the time of selection.
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supervise the projects which raise the funds for the scholarship. The House of Representatives includes one representative from each women's living group on campus.
The SMOP committee has supervised money-raising projects ranging from a slave auction of University officials to a Dean for a Day program.
1961, Chancellor Wescoe was auctioned to Lewis Hall for $141. A few day's later, Chancellor Wescoe served as a bus boy at Lewis Hall's diner. He wore the traditional white cap and jacket
Later that month, he performed the function of an assistant resident director when he was on hand to check all the women into the residence hall at closing and lock the doors.
After spirited bidding between the two freshman residence halls, Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin, Emily Taylor, dean of women, became the property of Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. She sold for $106.25.
These women were auctioned to men's and women's living groups and the project brought $636.70. The initials SMOP meant "Slave Maidens on Parade."
DONALD K. ALDERSON, dean of men, brought $80 from Corbin Hall. Dean Alderson also served as a waiter.
The SMOP committee also sponsored a late-night that year. The project netted $722.
After the officials had been sold, officers of campus organizations were also auctioned, including presidents and past presidents of living groups.
THE YEAR BEFORE, 1960. Pi Beta Phi sorority and Corbin Hall raised the most money for the scholarship fund. The money-raising projects were originated within the groups. As prizes they exchanged duty with Emily Taylor, dean of women.
The president of the Pi Beta Phi sorority ran into some problems her day in office. A woman student from the University of Chicago (actually a KU drama student) asked to be admitted to KU after she had been expelled from the Chicago school for unexplained disciplinary reasons.
This year's projects included a late night on the first night of the Rock Chalk Revue and a Christmas Card Post Office.
The Post Office delivered to all organized living groups, student offices, departments and faculty offices, and the administration.
Cards could be sent for 2 cents and packages for 10 cents. The Post Office operated from December 12 through the 18th.
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