Journalists Criticized By AUFS Lecturer
Journalists and statesmen have mistakenly analyzed Latin America as a single unit, an expert on Latin America said here last night.
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Speaking at a meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society, Richard W. Patch, an American Universities Field Staff lecturer, said Latin America should be analyzed properly on the basis of individual countries.
"JOURNALISTS, and I might add several members of the (Kennedy) administration, prefer to think of Latin America in total terms." Patch said.
He said analysts and statesmen have concluded that Latin American countries are moving toward democracy by analyzing the countries as one unit.
However, Patch said, recent shake-ups in Latin American governments have shown that the countries are actually moving in the "opposite direction from democracy and the 'pattern' has become a state of confusion."
Patch referred to a recent New York newspaper analysis on Latin America which said Arturo Frondizi (former president of Argentina) is leading his country to democracy eight months after Frondizi had left the Argentinian government, and said:
"You as journalists have grave responsibilities for accuracy in analyses and facts when dealing with Latin America."
SPEAKING ABOUT the Cuban crisis and its impact on Latin America, Patch said he "didn't think this is any sudden thing which we can identify with Fidel Castro and expect it to pass away, when and if Castro goes away.
"I think we attempt to link Fidel Castro's name too much to Latin American political problems."
Patch said it was a "serious mistake" to label every change in government in Latin America as a "revolution."
"These changes are mere changes of personnel, not major changes in political structure like the Cuban revolution," Patch said.
PATCH, AN anthropologist who joined the AUFS in 1957, has made six trips to Bolivia and Peru. There he has observed industrialization and migration patterns in Peru, the ethnography of a highland Peruvian Indian community, Bolivian agrarian reform, social and economic trends and rural-social interaction.
In a discussion period following his talk at the Sigma Delta Chi meeting, the anthropologist said Bolivians are divided into pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups.
"The recent U.S. blockade of Cuba
has brought the 'fence straddlers' over to a position of sympathy for the U.S." Patch said.
ASKED IF HE thought U.S. foreign aid to Bolivia and Peru could be reduced without harming the two countries, Patch said:
"There is much opportunity for better use of U.S. funds. I think it is not the quantity, but how these funds are used that counts. I think the aid could be cut by the amount which is stipulated in the (Lucius Clay commission's) report if the remaining part were put to good use."
He spoke specifically of a neean for better use of funds in highway building.
Douglas-Novak Film Tonight
"Strangers When We Meet," starring Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak and Ernie Kovacs will be shown at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. tonight in Fraser Theater.
The film is one of the Popular Film Series sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Concert to Feature KU Director, Soloist
Admission is 35 cents.
Two KU students will be in the spotlight at the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra spring concert.
The opening number for the concert Sunday at 3:30. "Overture to the Opera Der Freischutz." will be directed by Robert Schaaf, Herington graduate student.
Beatrice Gordon, Wichita senior, will be soloist in "Foeme for Violin and Orchestra," by Ernest Chausson.
Robert Baustian, associate professor of orchestra, will conduct the rest of the pieces including "Three Dances" from "The Three-Cornered Hat" by De Falla, and "Symphony No. 5" by Beethoven.
Murderer Best Man
BLACKPOOL, England — (UPI)
— Frank (Basher) Bond, a convicted murderer who escaped from jail two weeks ago, was recaptured by police yesterday just as he was handing out cups of tea at a wedding reception.
Bond was best-man for the bridegroom. Thomas Owens.
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KU Music Conductor To Review Symphony
A "Preview of the Cincinnati Symphony" will be discussed by Robert Bastian, associate professor of music and conductor of the KU symphony orchestra.
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Prof. Bastian will speak about the music to be played, the orchestra and its conductor at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
Parts of recordings of the pieces the Cincinnati orchestra will perform will be played during the discussion.
An archaeology professor from the University of Missouri will speak Monday on "The Beginning of Greek Civilization."
Archaeologist to Speak
Professor Saul Weinberg will deliver the 7:30 address in the Forum Room of the Student Union. He is an authority on Greek prehistory.
A dinner for Professor Weinberg and his wife at 6 p.m. precedes the Kansas Society of the Archaeological Institute of America address. Dinner reservations may be made by calling Allena Hyder, society vice-president, by Saturday night.
NSF Gives Students $800
Twelve KU students have been appointed National Science Foundation (NSF) undergraduate research scholars here.
The 12 will receive $800 stipends for research lasting two semesters and ten weeks in the summer. Two students at other schools will receive $600 each for summer appointments.
The students will participate in projects under faculty members in pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacology.
The appointments are possible through a grant of $25,200, almost
$10,000 larger than that received last year. Dr. Edward E. Smissman, professor and chairman of pharmaceutical chemistry is director of the grant.
Five fourth-year students were reappointed for a second year as NSF undergraduate research scholars. they are: Clinton Corder, pharmaceutical chemistry, Oberlin; Stuart Forney, pharmaceutical chemistry, Sublette; Harold N. Godwin, pharmaceutical chemistry, Ness City; Craig Berry, pharmacology, Chanute; Robert Gillespie, pharmacology, Prairie Village.
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