Amsterdam tolerant of young
Dutch citizens 'welcome young people'
AMSTERDAM (UPI) - Amsterdam's city fathers welcome young people, even those with long hair and beards.
And it's the lively and tolerant air of the Dutch city—rather than its canals and Rembrandts—that attracts flocks of the young. City officials aren't even ruffled by the possibility of a pop festival being held in Amsterdam this summer.
"I would say let them come," says Aliens Police Chief J. A. Hoeve. "For us each foreigner is the same. Large hats or long hair do not play a role. We only mind about the law."
The authorities are, however, a little bothered about where they would house the 100,000 young people if the proposed pop festival is held in the Amsterdam
woods or eastern Apeldoorn.
As it is, the city is considering erecting a circus tent at Museum Square and tent cities throughout the area, including one in the woods. In addition to the tent city sleeping quarters, Amsterdam hopes to use an old downtown plant to accommodate 1,000 young people and it provides visitors with a list of cheap lodgings, including churches.
To help the young eat cheaply, it may set up a student restaurant and field kitchens.
For fun and meeting other young people, there are city-sponsored clubs, as well as pubs and cafes. The best-known city clubs are the Paradiso and the Kosmos, formerly the Fantasie.
At the Paradise, young people meet to meditate, listen to music
and talk to one another. The Kosmos has been converted into a do-it-yourself center for painting and sculpture, with visitors and kibitzers welcome.
Looking forward to the summer tourist boom, Chief Hoeve said: "If someone wants to sleep in a small tent in the Amsterdam wood with only a few guilders in his pocket, he may do so provided he has valid papers. But I feel we will be kept rather busy throughout the summer and beyond."
Berlin is less hospitable than Amsterdam. Police, for instance, play close attention to the Park discotheque, which advertises "blues-rock'n'roll-underground-pop," shows underground films, and on its two floors on Berlin's main drag, the Kurfürstendamm, can hold 1,000 people.
One of the best young people's restaurants is the Drugstore on Kurfuerstendamm, where the service is good, the food fair and inexpensive. The pizzas there are the best in town, cost 95 cents and are served only after 6 p.m. You can get a steak with French fries and salad for $1.77. Or there's Wimpy's, also on the Kurfuerstendamm, where a hamburger costs 48 cents and two grilled sausages with potato salad comes to 81 cents.
A bus tour is the best way to see the city and the Berlin wall. A four-and-a-half hour tour of East and West Berlin costs $40.
A cheaper trip is on the elevated railway—the El—to East Berlin, which at eight cents may be the cheapest elevated ride in the world. You can board at the Zoo station in West Berlin, travel over the wall and get out 12 minutes later in the Friedrich Strasse station in the heart of East Berlin. You won't miss your stop--you must debark for border control. You also must change five marks ($1.35) into five east marks. Spend it—it won't reconvert.
SUA chairmanships for '70-'71 announced
enna is more a gateway than a stopping place, but the city has much to offer anyone prepared to accept its placid pace, savor its whipped cream pastries and listen to its waltz concerts.
The SUA committee chairmanships have been chosen for the 1970-71 school year.
Favorite youth meeting places are the downtown gardens, open all night, where young people can sing and play their musical instruments.
The recreation committee chairmen are: Quarterback Club, Vernon Lewis, Kansas City senior; Coffeehouse, Margie Weddell, Shawnee Mission freshman; Publicity, Chuck Hanson, Garden City sophomore; and Arrangements, Paul Shellito, Wichita freshman.
The Fine Arts Committee chairmen are: Exhibits, Janet Wysocki, LaGrange Park, Ill., freshman; Poetry Hour, Jim Schmidt, Satanta freshman.
The Forums Chairmen are: Women's Liberation Front, Sarah Scott, Prairie Village sophomore; Featured Speakers, Ramona Curry, Council Grove freshman; and Minority Opinions, Gus Dizerega, Wichita special student.
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Fine Arts school presents concert
The KU School of Fine Arts will present a concert of contemporary and avant garde music in Swarthout Recital Hall at 8 pm. Thursday, Mrs. Martha Bart, Newton graduate student and member of the concert repertoire, said Tuesday.
"The Kansas City based group," Mrs. Bert said, "was formed this year to prepare contemporary concerts for performance in this area."
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Recently the place was raided and 110 young people, including 40 girls, were seized along with a pound of hashish and some LSD.
Nor is Berlin cheap—a vodka and mix at the Park costs $1.10. But there are bargains, such as the youth hostels or Jugendherbergen, where a bed costs from 54 to 94 cents daily, and the pensions where a room without bath goes for about $2.70.
are: Open House — Publicity, Charles R. Hanson, Garden City sophomore; Open House Chairman, Karen Zupko, Morton Grove, Ill., sophomore; Orientation Week, John Schwartz, Wichita freshman; Films Publicity, Robert "Tuck" Duncan," Wilmette, Ill., freshman; Popular Films Series, Chuck Sack, Logansport; junior; and Classical Film Series, James M. Welsh, Logansport, Ind., graduate student.
For young people interested in Eastern Europe and Turkey, Vi-
The Travel Fair Chairman and committee members are: Chairman, Steve Davis, Topeka freshman; Correspondence, Laura Be Stevens, Garnett freshman; Arrangements, Ron Roberson; Arrangements, Corby Calvin, Shawnee Mission junior; Campus Co-ordinator, Fred Winter, Lawrence junior; and Films, Mary Lou Landman, Hutchinson junior.
The Travel Center committee members are: John Beeson, Lawrence sophomore; Larry Heller, San Francisco sophomore; Mary Lou Landman, Hutchinson junior; John Prohodsky, El Dorado freshman; Cal Simmons, Alexandria, Va., sophomore; and Walter Trapp, Hiawatha sophomore.
There will be a membership meeting the first week of classes next fall. At this time the extra chairmanships will be filled.
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