University Daily Kansan Monday, March 25.1967
Ketzel Warns Africans New Ideas Need Time
The future of the United Nations depends upon the African nations as much as it depends upon the powerful nations, Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science, told African students Saturday.
Ketzel told the African foreign students from U.S. universities in nine states, who met Saturday to discuss their common problems and interests, that Africans are responsible for giving support to activities which strengthen the United Nations.
five African students, who attended the conference of the
Thirty-five African students Central Region of the Pan African Students Organization in America (PASOA), were from Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
AFRICAN STATES must use a certain degree of moderation in their demands to change the status quo and not demand actions of other states that conceivably would wreck the United Nations. Ketzel said.
Commenting on African politics, Ketzel said larger political units are desirable for the interest of economy. He said government revenues are limited by small population as well as by poverty. He said it will be difficult for the new leaders to furnish the needs of development and other specialized services in agriculture, medicine and education.
Ketzel said what Africa needs most is the constant realization that vested interests in the concept of the nation-state should not stand in the way of solutions to the betterment of the standards of living of the African citizens.
"The most effective way for this integration," Ketzel said, "is first through the functional approach — in non-political areas such as transportation, health, currency, post and telegraph, etc." He said political integration would come more quickly if the nationalism is strong and if the nations are economically independent.
KETZEL ADVISED the students that they should be careful in their behavior when they return home. He said the African students in the United States have been exposed to different and new situations.
He suggested that the students should move slowly for any change if they want widespread utilization of their knowledge.
"Impatient efforts to change the way of doing things can endanger your longer range efforts to utilize your newly discovered truths. Your knowledge may not be pertinent without considerable modification to meet African needs," Ketzel said.
THE DAY-LONG conference of PASOA was divided into three sessions.
Among the speakers at the morning session were Ketzel, Clark Coan, assistant dean of students and foreign student adviser, and Errol Harish, professor of philosophy.
Dean Coan, who recently completed a month-long tour of four African regions — Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Swaziland, and northern and southern Rhodesia, said he is convinced that it is best for the Africans to be educated in Africa because there are many fields available for those who want to get higher education.
COAN SAID he had a talk with a British educational officer about the African system. He said he was confused because the British officer said Britishers know where Africans should get education—an approach opposite to what African leaders claim.
Harris, speaking on PASOA, said African unity is desirable. He said Africans have common problems and interests, and because of this similarity in problems and interests, movements for unity ought to be welcomed.
The future of Africa lies in the hands of black Africans, he said. He said the black Africans should make plans for the future of whites, who are permanent residents of Africa.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION was divided into subgroups. These groups discussed the economic problems of PASOA, collaboration of African states in foreign matters, African-American relationship, academic problems, and several geographical problems.
The afternoon session was followed by the election of the permanent officers of PASOA. The elected officers are Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika, sophomore at KU, vice-president and chairman of PASOA, Central Region; Alfred Zaranyika, student from Southern Rhodesia at southwestern College, Winfield, Kan., secretary, and Josiah Brown, Liberia freshman, treasurer.
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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — (UPI) — One stone, dislodged by a young boy climbing the palisades here yesterday, touched a rock slide which killed his 3-year-old sister playing in the grass 40 feet below.
Police said five 400-pound boulders were among the rocks which plummeted toward little Nina Benesch of New York City.
Rock Slide Kills 3-year-old-Girl
The children's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Benesch, didn't notice 7-year-old Andrew climbing until the boy had already climbed a considerable distance up the steep cliff.
They called to him to stop and his foot displaced the baseball-sized rock triggering the cascade of stones which hurtled down with its tragic result.
Nina was rushed to Englewood Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
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