Register for Model OAS now
The Model Organization of American States (OAS) is beginning its publicity drive to sign up countries to debate March 13 and 14 at the Kansas Union.
Robert Ward, Wichita graduate student and publicity chairman for the Model OAS, said those students interested in forming delegations should call the KU-Y office at 864-3761.
Ward said students should register as soon as possible in order to be sure of getting country assignments they want. Registration is open until March 10.
Four students are necessary to make a delegation. The cost per delegation to participate in the debates is $5.
Ward said the Model OAS was similar to the Model UN in that students debated important issues pertaining to the countries they represented.
The Model OAS is sponsored by the Model UN and the KU-Y. For additional information interested students may contact Ward at 842-4953.
Silver shown at art museum
Ten award-winning pieces from the 1969 Sterling Silver Design competition will be shown Monday, Feb. 16, at the University of Kansas Art Museum. The exhibit will run through Feb. 20.
All the award-winning pieces are the work of student silversmiths from across the country. The competition, held in New York, was sponsored by the Sterling Silversmiths Guild of America.
The pieces are presently on a nation-wide tour of major schools and department stores.
Hand-crafted harpsichord heard
A new harpsicord, six years in the making, was heard for the first time in concert at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall. J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of music history, played the harpsicord. He was accompanied by Howard Boyajian, professor of music, on the violin.
The harpsicord was hand-crafted by Frank Hubbard of Boston and it is an exact replica of a 17th century harpsiccord made by the Flemish craftsman Hans Moerman. The instrument has two manuals, three sets of strings and a manual coupler for sound variation. The body parts are entirely of wood.
Red China film next in series
"Red China Diary" with Morley Safer is the next of a series of "Films of Fact and Fiction" which will be shown at 3:30 p.m. each Monday in Bailey Hall, Room 3, by the KU Bureau of Visual Instruction. The series began Feb. 9 and will end May 11.
Some of the other films that will be shown are: "Heritage in Black" and "Harlem: The making of a Community" on Feb. 23; "People of the Buffalo," "Our Proud Land" and "Legends of the Sioux" on March 30; "Marijuana" and "Crisis in the Cities: What's Happening" on April 13; "Cezanne," "Art of Metal Sculpture" and "Will Art Last" on May 11.
Prof gets grant for drug study
Robert A. Wiley, associate professor of medical chemistry, received a $7,820 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to continue work on tranquilizers and psychic energizers.
Wiley, who is in his fourth year on the project, is studying the makeup of the two different but related drugs. He hopes to determine why two similar drug products, tranquilizers and stimulants, produce such different results.
Hormone research grant given
Marjorie Z. Newmark, assistant professor of biochemistry, received a grant of $15,564 from the National Heart and Lung Institute. The grant will be used to continue research into the metabolic regulation of arterial tissue.
The project is designed to pinpoint which of the enzymes of the aorta, the main heart artery, are affected by a particular hormone. Miss Newmark also hopes to determine whether a hormone alters the amount of the enzyme in the tissue or changes the efficiency enzyme
Miss Newmark hopes the research will provide some cites to the development of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.
Visiting professors named
Agehananda Bharati, professor of anthropology at Syracuse University, and Charity Waymouth, senior staff scientist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, have been appointed Rose Morgan Visiting Professors at the University of Kansas for the 1970-71 school year.
The Rose Morgan Visiting Professorship was established through a bequest of Miss Morgan, a former professor of English at KU. The Visiting Professorship brings distinguished figures to KU for at least one semester. Besides a stipend, Miss Morgan's estate provides that her furnished home near the campus be available for use by the appointees.
Bhariti, who will serve during the fall semester, is a student of oriental religions and speaks 16 languages.
Miss Waymouth is a specialist in tissue culture and has worked with the nutrition of animal cells and their long-term propagation. She will fill the professorship for the spring semester of 1971.
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Both professors will teach an undergraduate course and a graduate seminar.
Relevancy of Peace Corps discussed at SUA forum
The relevancy of the Peace Corps was the topic of the SUA Peace Corps Forum yesterday in the Kansas Union Forum Room. The forum consisted of a panel discussion followed by a question and answer session.
Del Lewis, a member of the Peace Corps staff in Nigeria and Uganda, said the Peace Corps needs the kind of people who need respond to changes around the world. He said the Peace Corps had "more excited people" six years ago than they have now.
Jeorge Chamst, graduate student from Peru, said he felt the Peace Corps was more relevant
five or six years ago than it is now. He suggested individual failures and arguments between volunteers as causes of discouragement among Peace Corps volunteers.
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"People in Peru don't trust Peace Corps volunteers as much as they used to." Chamst said. "There's an anti-American feeling in South America and people there feel that anything coming from the United States, including the Peace Corps, is a part of American imperialism."
Felix Moos, professor of anthropology, said he thought the Peace Corps was relevant only in a selfish sense.
Moos said he wanted to see people in the Peace Corps who were committed to long term development.
Bill Miller, a returned volunteer from Colombia, said the Peace Corps was relevant only to the extent that peace in the United States was relevant. He said that as long as the United States felt peace was good, the Peace Corps would continue.
goes to a country and comes back with great insight, but the two years he spent there were hardly long enough to revamp the world. Countries want American technology, but they don't want American ideology."
Lewis said the Peace Corps couldn't do the ideal and never pretended that its volunteers were to be technicians. He said the Peace Corps was intended to provide middle level manpower to underdeveloped countries.
"People don't have the right conception of Americans." Miller said. "One of the goals of the Peace Corps is to expand foreign perspectives of the American people, and to expand our perspectives of their countries, too."
Moos said the Peace Corps would be more relevant if it would fulfill the role of bringing technicians to underdeveloped countries. He said these countries needed volunteers who were better trained. Volunteers are most effective after their first tour, Moos said, but most of them leave the Peace Corps after one tour.
Many countries found their own people could do the job Peace Corps volunteers were doing, Lewis said. Now these countries need more skilled volunteers. Lewis concluded with the remark that, if the Peace Corps "is to survive," it will be in a different form than it is today.
"It's a great experience for Americans to view these countries as zoos." Moos said. "A volunteer