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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 2,1964
Red Show-down
Premier Nikita Khrushchev will kick off his campaign in order to get support in his ideological dispute with Red China next month when the world Communist leaders will meet in Moscow to celebrate his 70th birthday anniversary.
According to reported sources in Budapest, a decision whether to call a world Communist meeting to judge the dispute between the two major states may come.
"If called, such a meeting would probably make the widening gap between the Russians and the Chinese unabridgeable," a copyrighted article of New York Times reports. "The Chinese would face the choice of being outvoted or ignoring the invitation to the meeting, thus conceding the argument to Moscow. . . ."
The argument in the Sino-Soviet dispute lies in the fact that China wants war and Russia wants peace. The Soviet Union accuses Communist China of warmongering and Red China, in turn, denounces Russia for betraying the interests of the revolution.
The Red Chinese aggression in the Southeast Asia shows that the Chinese Communists do not agree with Khrushchev that war is out of date in a nuclear age. They do not agree that capitalism can be vanquished by peaceful means. On this very point they are quarreling with the Soviet leadership. They have made it clear to the world that they are still set upon the policy of revolutionary aggression.
Communist China has been able to get support from a few Communist parties in Asia, especially from the ruling parties in North Korea and North Vietnam and the comparatively strong parties in Indonesia and Japan. The Chinese Communists have convinced these nations that Russia is not willing to help them win their revolutions since it (the Soviet Union) is afraid of nuclear war.
On the other hand, the Soviet Union has gained support from the Communist governments in Eastern Europe. It was reported that Khrushchev already has reached agreement with the Communist parties of Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria. Khrushchev is believed to have received support from the Communist parties of West on the basis that China does not care whether the more developed countries survive so long as Red Chinese interests are satisfied.
However, looking at China's resources, its international relations, its propaganda machine and its people's efficiency, the Chinese Communists seem to be too limited to challenge the Soviet Union successfully. And if the meeting of the world Communists is called, only two possibilities exist: (1) Red China accepts the terms of the Soviet Union or (2) a complete break in the relations of the two largest Communist parties.
- Vinay Kothari
Guidance Bureau Provides Aid In Students' Search for Identity
By Margaret Hughes Searching for your identity?
ACCORDING TO RECENT articles by sociologists, educators, and psychologists, this generation of college students is characterized by its "search for identity" the constant quest for who, where, and WHY.
The Guidance Bureau's seven staff members oversee an extensive program of counseling, testing, teaching, and research. The program is open and free of charge to all KU students.
Every year 900 to 1,000 KU students go exploring—into their personalities and abilities—at the Guidance Bureau in Bailey Hall.
Director of the Guidance Bureau is E. Gordon Colliser, professor of education, a cheerful chain-smoker with twinkly blue eyes.
"I DON'T THINK the 'search for identity' is any more pronounced now; but students are more honest and open about it
than they were 30 years ago," Prof. Collier said.
“Maybe searching for one's identity is more 'all right' now—more the socially acceptable thing to do.”
Prof. Collister explained the guidance program's extent: "We don't think it makes sense to categorize problems. In fact, we aren't concerned with students' problems, but with students who have problems."
STUDENTS OFTEN misinterpret the purpose of the Guidance Bureau. "They have the idea they can come in and have someone tell them, 'You should be a deepsea diver or a concert violinist,'" Prof. Collister said.
"We have no right to do this—a person's life belongs to him; we can't line out his life pattern," Prof. Collister explained. "We try to present him with possibilities and 'best estimates' so that he can better make his own choices."
Often, after a preliminary interview, a counselor will decide that test results will help in advising a
student. Most of the tests are ability, achievement, interest, and personality inventories.
"WHEN I CAME HERE in 1950," Prof. Collister said, "people thought of the Guidance Bureau as the place where they took tests. Now it is recognized that testing is only part of the program."
He added that test results must be explained and discussed, that they mean nothing by themselves.
"Test scores don't help a student know what to do." Prof. Collister said. "The average number of sessions we have with each student has doubled in the past few years."
"DESPITE THIS' search for identity' trend, there are still many students in college who have never sat down and thought about who they are," Prof. Collister commented.
"Perhaps this is a cultural effect: they feel people will think them selfish to do this kind of thinking.
"But after all, who are you going to spend more time with than yourself?"
The People Say...
Twisted Pretzels
The mounting pressure directed toward integration has put many fraternity and sorority members in the position of a twisted pretzel. As educated members of society, the Greeks typically recognize that segregation of the Negro has been cruel, crude, exploitive with injurious effects to the white as well as the Negro community. Likewise, the concept of "separate but equal" has little audience. Yet fraternity and sorority members may still have personal reluctances to associate closely with Negroes, reluctances which become expressed as the right to choose the person with whom you live; a point which deserves recognition rather than deision.
Of course I am aware that some of the Greek houses have consci-
Recognition of this growing but largely underlying sentiment is not yet accomplished. The Greek sys-
Perhaps until now it has been possible to avoid genuinely facing up to the discrepancy between the issue of desiring integration but at the same time wishing to stave off integrated housing. We could keep ourselves isolated by either putting it out of our minds, or dealing with it at arms length in the form of intellectual discussions. But the tide of national racial integration as well as the increased concern in Lawrence and on campus has put the issue of integration flat on our laps where we can no longer pretend it is only an academic issue.
In the same vein, it is my opinion that Chancellor Wescoe is doing a disservice to the fraternities and sororities by avoiding the leadership role of crystallizing the issue in a less tender-hearted manner. I recognize that the Chancellor is under considerable pressure which pushes him to take the least repugnant stand to both sides consonant with his value of ameliorating the civil rights issue. However, the hidden issue in Chancellor Wescoe's current stand is that it makes it difficult for the many who are feeling the pressure of their two discrepant values of being for civil rights but against integration in housing to make their feelings manifest. The implicit reasoning among these members is that the University's reluctance to take a positive stand also gives them license to avoid facing up to the issues which are nevertheless on their minds.
ten has yet to provide channels for the expression of these sentiments, no longer as an intellectual issue but with a view toward action and change. There is a need in these discussions to genuinely make it possible for members to express all of their feelings about the civil rights issue, their ambiguity, feelings of their desirability for solution, concern, as well as the traditional polar issue of integration versus private rights.
entiously made efforts to deliberate the issue. I understand that one sorority is making plans to actively rush and pledge Negro girls in the coming rush season. Nevertheless, though the issues are in the air, too many of us have yet to commit ourselves to the facts that:
2. The question is not one of "either-or" but rather "what and how is the best way of accomplishing integration . . . now!"
1. Integration of fraternities and sororities is inevitable.
Any choice involves giving one thing up for the other, but I feel the extent of our hesitance about accepting Negroes into fraternities and sororites reflects the wish that all alternatives can be satisfied and everybody can live happily ever after. Not so in the real world. Perhaps an overt recognition of this may assist people in moving out of obsessive deliberation into action and resolution.
It is no longer tenable to ride the civil rights horse in both directions at once, as was the minister who was picketing recently in front of the Student Union who maintained that he was not anti-Negro but was for serregation. A Negro girl in the crowd asked him if he in fact (as he said) loved all Negroes.
"Yes, I do," he piously replied "I don't," she said. Stephen Goldfarb San Diego, Calif., graduate student
Life Is Having Hubby Hanging in the Closet
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad.
And so she had. On a hook. Stuffed by the friendly neighborhood taxidermist.
ENTER MADAME ROSEPETTLE, unaffectionately called Mama, who is mourning her murder of her husband with a Caribbean tour. Dressed in black (trimmed and lined in scarlet satin), Madame is the self-appointed tsaress of an entourage of piranha fish, venus fly traps, a corps of bellboys, a corpse, and other dependents (Jonathan). She spends her days keeping doors locked on her son Alfred (Edward? Robinson') and her nights combing the beaches for couples to kick sand at.
ROSALIE, WHOSE NOCTURNAL ACTIVITIES make ludicrous her pink and ruffled costume, manages to draw Jonathan into Madame's forbidden bedroom and sheds innumerable crinolines down to a slinky red slip. She does pretty well until Poor Dad falls out of the closet across the bed.
Yes, life is ugly outside Mama's suite—it's there waiting to seduce and sunburn her stammering, gangly, cloistered son. He occupies himself with his collections of stamps, coins, and books, and with ogling Rosalie, the red-headed babysitter, through a homemade telescope. "Call me Jonathan," he pleads with her, in an attempt to deny or establish his identity.
Now playing in the Experimental Theatre, "Oh Dad" will extend its run during the week after spring vacation. Its popularity is well justified by the script itself and by the excellent performances of the four main characters.
Nancy Vunovich, Arkansas City graduate student, is commanding and magnetic as Madame Rosepettle. The play never drags, even through Madame's seven-page monologue. She delivers her lines with professional ease.
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Rosaliie, the babysitter-seductress, is effectively played by Judy Howell, Hinsdale, Ill., freshman. Commodore Roseabove, a wheezy old waltzer who resists kissing because of his asthma, is well portrayed by Tom Winston, Dallas, Tex., senior, with only occasional lapses in characterization.
BOB RUMPF, WEBSTER GROVES, MO., senior, plays the bumbling, naive Jonathan to bumbling, naive perfection.
The setting, lighting, and sound effects are unremarkable; it is the performances that put "Oh Dad" across as one of the best of the surdist plays.
ABSURD IT IS. The last line is Madame Rosepettle's query, "What is the meaning of all this?" Some would answer, "None at all." We would call it a valid and valuable comment on current customs and morals and on the sterility of personal relationships.
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