Daily hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No. 109
Monday, March 23, 1964
Corps Workers On KU Campus
Bv Bobbie Bartelt
Climbing a mountain is a test of oneself, not a struggle against the mountain, one of the American conquerors of Mount Everest said.
William F. Unsoeld, a member of the successful 1963 American expedition to the summit of the world's highest peak, is on campus this week to participate in the KU Peace Corps Week.
UNSOELD MADE THE HIMALAYAN climb while on leave of absence from his duties as Peace Corps representative in Nepal. He was given permission to make the Mount Everest climb by Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps.
At KU, Unsoeld, and six other representatives from the Peace Corps, will be giving information about the Peace Corps in an information booth in the Kansas Union Lobby, in classroom lectures, and on visits to various campus living groups.
Unsoeld will speak at the Peace Corps Recognition Banquet Wednesday evening.
Unsoeld took his position with the Peace Corps while serving as a professor of philosophy and religion at Oregon State University. He entered the Peace Corps on a staff assignment, as volunteers in the Corps may not have dependents.
IN SEPTEMBER, 1962 Unsoeld was sent as a deputy Peace Corps representative to Nepal, a small country in the Himalaya mountains.
mountains. "Nepal's people live on about the same standard as people did in 15th Century Europe," Unsoeld said. "It is not surprising that our 100 volunteers have not made a great impact.
"The job in Nepal is not made easier because they are not overly eager to change the ways of their ancient civilization," he said. Because of the seven per cent literacy rate in the country, the Nepalese have little communication with the outside world, and consequently have little desire to change, Unsoeld explained.
"POVERTY, EDUCATION, and disease are the major problems facing Peace Corps volunteers in Nepal today," Unsoeld said. Volunteers now carry small pox vaccination kits with them, and even though they may have had no training, they give the vaccinations, he continued.
continued.
"Training in the basic health practices—like giving shots and vaccinations, and delivering babies—is part of the training now being given to the third group of volunteers to Nepal," Unsoeld said.
This phase of Peace Corps training was one reason given for terming "versatility" the most important quality of a person interested in the Peace Corps.
"BUT A PROSPECTIVE VOLUNTEER must also have a genuine interest in people," Unsoeld said. "In addition, he must be flexible That is, he must be able to change his standards, otherwise he would never be able to adopt to the extremely different cultures to which he will be subjected as a member of the Peace Corps."
he will be subjected as a he Unsoeld's last post in Nepal before returning to the States was as head Peace Corps representative to Nepal. In this post he works in a counseling position as well as an administrative one.
"I have to keep before our volunteers the objectives of the Peace Corps, as well as trying to prevent them from becoming discouraged," Unsoeld said. "The work in Nepal isn't glamorous, nor are results always obvious."
Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps Head May Appear at KU
Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps and President Johnson's war on poverty, is tentatively scheduled to speak here April 20.
"I'm pretty sure he'll be here. He has a real tight schedule and has to speak the same day at a luncheon at Wichita.
A Jim Murray, Leawood junior and publicity chairman of the KU Peace Corps Organization, said last night:
"No definite arrangements have been worked out, but I imagine he would speak at a convocation."
Shriver has been mentioned in recent weeks as a possible Democratic vice-presidential nominee.
Large Halls Take Fling
Awards for the Spring Fling were Carruth-O'Leary won first place for their mixed ensembles group.
The Spring Fling became an accomplished feat this weekend with almost every large residence hall winning something.
winning some of the special Whatchamacallit with the live music of the Nocturnes began the Spring Fling which was created this year by the Association of University Residence Halls.
THE COMPETITIVE EVENTS for the weekend began on the very cold Saturday morning in the Lewis
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Pickets Protest Sigma Nu Clause
Bv Garv Noland
The weather cleared, the sun shone, and 100 peaceful and orderly demonstrators turned out to picket Sigma Nu fraternity Saturday afternoon.
Picketers marched up and down Emery Road for almost two hours, protesting the discriminatory clause in the national constitution of Sigma Nu.
THE NUMBER OF DEMONSTRATORS exceeded the expectations of everyone, including the leader of the pickets, George Ragsdale, Lawrence senior and chairman of the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee. The CRCC was formed to coordinate several campus organizations in mass demonstrations protesting alleged de facto segregation of KU fraternities and sororities.
John Elwell, Wichita senior and president of Sigma Nu fraternity, said he had expected from 40 to 50 demonstrators and was surprised at the number that showed up.
The neatly-dressed demonstrators sang "We Shall Overcome," while small groups of fraternity men looked on. The pickets paraded back and forth from the intersection of Oxford Road and High Drive to the front entrance of the Sigma Nu house.
THEY MARCHED PAST three fraternities and two sororities in order to picket the front and back entrances of the Sima Nu house. Ragsdale said the purpose was not to picket all five houses, but just the Sigma Nu house.
"The others just happened to be next to Sigma Nu," Ragsdale said.
said:
Ragsdale said he thought the picketing would make a significant impression on the national organization of Sigma Nu. Elwell said it probably wouldn't, however.
THE CRCC said it was picketing the KU chapter of Sigma Nu to help the chapter remove its discriminatory clause. The KU chapter unsuccessfully attempted to remove the clause from the Sigma Nu constitution at the last national convention.
The CRCC claims that pressure in the form of pickets will force the national chapter to remove the clause.
Some of the signs read: "Greek segregation must end," "Greeks are all right, if discrimination they fight," "Cigarettes were important enough for action, how about discrimination," and "Chancellor Wescoe, where is thy voice?"
WHEN THE PICKETS arrived, after marching across Jayhawk Boulevard from the Kansas Union, a small group of fraternity men greeted them with a few verses of "Dixie."
greeted them with a few wives. Later on, several cars flying Confederate flags drove past the demonstrators, but there were no other incidents.
Elwell said the demonstrators were orderly and stressed that the Sigma Nu's main concern was to make sure there were no incidents.
AT 2:30 P.M., the demonstrators lined up along the road in front of the Sigma Nu house and maintained a few minutes of silent protest. They then sang "We Shall Overcome," and marched to the front steps of Strong Hall where they sang the first verse of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and then dispersed.
The CRCC plans to picket the torch lighting ceremony in Topeka and the Greek Week chariot races next Saturday. Atty. Gen. William Ferguson will light the torch and the event is scheduled to be televised.
Youth One of "Most Explosive Problems" in U.S.
(Editor's note: In the following dispatch, the first of five, the National Reporter of United Press International examines the serious plight of American youth. Subsequent dispatch shows what will deal with their parents, the assorted enthusiasms of youth and the economic problem that youth presents.)
By Harry Ferguson
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The plight of American youth is serious, is on the road to becoming desperate and, in the words of Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, could develop into one of the "most explosive problems in the nation's history."
President Johnson has just recommended to congress a $962.5 million war chest to finance his battle against nobility, and it includes such plans for youth as a "job corps" of 100,000. But the people are fighting the crisis on a day-to-day basis say privately that this barely will make a dent in the problem. They think we should be talking in terms of massive and prompt action involving the spending of billions, not millions.
Most politicians step over the problem of youth, or warily walk around it because they don't know what to do about it.
AS WE HAVE just seen in the New Hampshire primary, candidates assault the eardrums of the voters with discussions of Khrushchev, taxes, Cyprus, Castro, civil rights, Zanzibar, the U.S. Supreme Court and Viet Nam. If any of them so much as mentioned the problems of youth, it eluded the attention of this faithful newspaper reader.
Unless there is prompt and massive action, it seems certain that the plight of the teen-ager will still be a skeleton in our national closet years after Khrushchev and Castro are dead and some sort of peace has settled upon Viet Nam, Cyprus and Zanzibar.
- Nearly one out of every six teen-agers who wants work can't find any. Almost one-fourth of the nation's unemployed are teen-agers and the situation will get worse as
Here is the problem:
automation dries up the number of jobs available to the untrained.
- In the present decade 26 million will not have finished high school and 2.5 million will not even have finished grade school. They are the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
- In the last decade juvenile delinquency has increased twice as fast as the child population. Delinquency is most prevalent in our big cities and there is a relentless movement of Americans from rural to urban centers.
- You would assume the juvenile delinquency would decline in a prosperous nation, but the U.S. Children's Bureau finds that just the opposite is true. The richer
Weather
Skies will remain cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with rain tonight changing to snow. Temperatures will drop into the mid 39's tonight and remain colder tomorrow.
America becomes, the higher goes the delinquency rate and the same is true for all nations.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is aware of the problem, but as long as a year ago admitted it could not cope with it by itself.
"It has its roots in such things as school drop-outs, broken homes, racial discrimination, slum housing and youth unemployment." said Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who has made exhaustive studies of the problem. "The Federal Government cannot solve these problems. Our role is to encourage, to offer assistance and to try to stimulate new local action. The fight is going to be won or lost at the grass-roots level."
And what is happening at the grass roots level? Chiefly, a bewildering and contradictory body of lows. If a 18-year-old boy steals an automobile inside the city limits of Baltimore, he is taken into an adult criminal court. If he steals a car outside the city limits, he goes into a juvenile court. Our states and
cities differ widely on who is a juvenile delinquent and why.
And so do the experts. Not only on who is a juvenile delinquent, but what to do about him. Roul Tunley, an amateur, visited widely among the experts and in his book, "Kids, Crime and Choas", came to the conclusion that many experts not only are making no dent in juvenile delinquency, but are working at cross purposes with one another.
HE TELLS ABOUT playwright Arthur Miller inviting 14 experts to his home at a time when he was considering writing a play about juvenile delinquency and then quotes Miller:
One expert saw it from the psychiatric view, another from the statistical viewpoint, another from the settlement house viewpoint. several things surprised me about this meeting, but the main thing was that this was obviously the first time they had ever met one another.
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