Community KU served by student
John Mauk, Conway Springs senior, is seen working in the KU-Y office with Ruth Cathcart (left), Manhattan junior, and Laura Friesen, Clay Center junior.
Service is the function of the KU-Y and service is the avocation of many University of Kansas students.
A one-man resource of service at KU is John Mauk, Conway Springs senior, who spends long hours each week coordinating the various KU-Y projects. Mauk is a co- vice president of the KUY.
John has spent his college years as a "Big Brother" to many youngsters without fathers at home. He is now in charge of the Community Service Program, which includes the entire "Brother" program. He is also administrator of the programs providing for special activities by volunteers with retarded children, teacher aides to Lawrence schools and the Head Start Program, and tutors to campus students, including blind students. There are about 250 volunteers working in these programs.
Besides all this, John is a proctor, or student manager, at Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall where he orders supplies, makes work assignments and sees that the hall runs smoothly. A chemistry and mathematics major, John is preparing for a medical career, possibly in pediatrics.
John's work with the KU-Y has recently involved him in another project, the Community Service Clearinghouse. This is an agency designed to match student volunteers with community agencies sponsoring social programs.
The Clearinghouse was partially designed to eliminate overlapping of service agencies and to study the needs of the community for such agencies, Mauk said. He worked on the research committee of the Clearninghouse, trying
to pinpoint needs and effectively distribute resources. Clearinghouse volunteers may now find themselves tutoring young elementary students, working on Red Cross drives, or painting baseball diamonds in the spring for the city park department.
on the KU Relays Committee. The Committee is in charge of much of the business work of the relays, Mauk said. They send entry blanks, type various forms for all schools involved, and help announcers and officials. This will be John's fourth year of working on the committee.
With all of his community interests, and the studies which must be maintained to keep him eligible for the scholarship hall, John also finds time to be active
Peruvian government silences newspaper
LIMA, Peru (UPI) — Peru's military government silenced Wednesday its most vocal critic, the Lima daily newspaper Expreso.
About 40 government police seized the newspaper building at dawn Wednesday and prevented anyone from entering.
The newspaper had charged repeatedly in editorials in recent weeks that the government was cooperating with communist elements within the newspaper to promote its downfall. The official government newspaper El Peruano repeatedly had printed statements on its front page from communist-controlled unions in Expreso asking that it be turned over to them as a cooperative.
A brief government statement said the newspaper would be
turned over to its journalist and printers union who would operate it as a cooperative. The government said employees would "assume the obligation of payment" but did not indicate how or when that would be.
The founder of the newspaper, Manuel Ulloa, estimated his investment and that of his stockholders at 25 million soles, about $563,000. A former Peruvian finance minister, Ulloa was sent into exile 17 months ago when the armed forces seized the government. The director of the paper is Ulloa's cousin, Alberto Ulloa.
Seizure of Expreso, which also publishes an afternoon edition. Extra, was the most drastic action yet taken by the government against the press.
Rivers defends US involvement in Laos
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States is not getting over-involved in Laos and those who say differently "just don't know the facts," Chairman L. Mendel Rivers of the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday.
Egypt ready to resume diplomatic relations
Rivers spoke to reporters after his committee met in closed session with Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, and contradicted Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield who has said the United States was "up to our necks" in Laos.
Emerging from the same meeting, Rep. Otis Pike, D-N.Y., who frequently disagrees with Rivers, backed him all the way.
Riad made the statements to a closed session of the Egyptian National Assembly. They were reported Thursday by Cairo newspapers.
CAIRO (UPI)—Egypt is ready to resume diplomatic relations with the United States if Washington pressures Israel into immediate withdrawal of occupied territories, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad said Wednesday.
Meantime, Secretary of State William P. Rogers conferred informally for more than two hours
But Riad insisted that the latest American proposals to settle the Middle East conflict peacefully "cannot form a basis for discussion."
"Based on what we heard this morning, I think you can say quite flatly that the decision has been made that we are not going to get involved in sending military ground combat troops to Laos," Pike told reporters.
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with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but there was no indication of what he said. No committee member—not even Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., a severe critic of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia—would discuss what was said.
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