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Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1961
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It has been announced that the newly formed Nebras
ka International Association (NIA) will sponsor a cultural
type program next Sunday afternoon.
This is the first time that the NIA has been given the
chance or has taken the chance to demonstrate the abili
ties of some of its members. Many of the foreign students
here on campus have outstanding talent. I am glad some
one has taken the initiative to organize this talent and
actually present it.
About the NIA . . . This, the newest formed activity
on campus and the only one as far as foreign students
are concerned, has grown to become an important part of
campus life for these students.
The life of a foreign student at Nebraska is anything
but easy. Most of us have enough trouble mastering the
language of the land. Think, if you can, how it would be
to take notes in a political science or history course,
when the language of the instructor is not the same one
you have bee?; using all your life.
The NIA is the third organized attempt in the past
decade to aid the foreign student.
The two earlier ventures, the International House and
"the Cosmopolitan Club fell by the wayside, primarily due
to the lack of interest.
Will the NIA follow in the same line? This year the
organization is favored in two respects; strong interest
and strong leadership. Only time will tell. Next year the
organization may fail to carry, over some of the interest
from tills year's group. If so, it isn't hard to predict its
outcome. . ,
I hope that this year's organization, through festivals
such as the one planned' for Sunday night, will be able to
give to the foreign student something he has been robbed
heretofore . , . social life, extracurricular activities or
what ever you want to call it.
Contrary to some reports the Student Council, as a
whole, is attempting to help out this organization. Last
week NIA was discussed and received a great deal of
favorable attention. I hope that this cooperation will
continue in the future.
A final word, not about NIA, but a story which ap
peared in Tuesday's paper that concerned a foreign stu
dent. . .
W reported' about the fellow who gave a set of
encyclopedias to the Student Union. It seems that this
fellow is not from Iraq, as mentioned in our story, but
instead from Tehran, Iran. Not trying to start an inter
national incident, we are very sorry about this error. I am
sure that Yazdi-Khosro Afshar and the others involved
wiH realize that names and languages are hard to under
stand. Brazilian Students
And Czechoslovakia
. . (This is the first oi a reg
ular series of reports of the
International S t a d e n t
World.)
(UPS) What started out
to be six years of all-expense-paid
study in Czech
oslovakia for four Brazilian
students turned out to be
Just four months of disen
chantment for the students
who believe they are the
first to walk out on the
generous Iron Curtain
scholarship program.
The Brazilians Ron
taldo Bodrigues, Luis Da
Silva, Sergio Montero and
Juan Mattos arrived in
Paris last month after
fleeing the satellite nation.
Admittedly sympathetically
disposed toward Commun
, ism when they first arrived
in Czechoslovakia last Sep
tember, they said they
were disillusioned by what
they saw there and the con
ditions under which they
would have to study.
Ia an interview for Le
Figaro, largest circulation
French daily, they told f
their "Adventure of Disen
chantment". Their story began when
they received the scholar
ships through the Interna
tional Union of Students
(IUS), Communist-d o tn i
rated organization of na
tional u n i o n s of students
Nebraskan
Student Enjoy
Coed Auction Rate
To the Editor:
Congratulations to all
who have promoted in any
way the coming coed auc
tion on February 24. All
humanity knows how the
male of the species has
been plagued and exploited
in centuries past, and how
he has constantly been the
victum of morale-wreaking
situations which run the
gaumut from being refused
a date to no good-night
kiss. I cannot help but feel
that by promoting "vending-machine
romance" men
everywhere will be deliv
ered from their unpleasant
lot. Here at last is an ef
fective weapon against.
Momism and Matriachry!
I must confess, however,
that I could not help but
wonder about the very
nominal fee 60 cents per
hour. I have always thought
that when love is put on a
commercial basis the prices
usually coincide with the
demand. I would certainly
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Thought
By Dave Calhoun
with headquarters in
Prague. ,
Commenting on the schol
arship program, the Le Fi
garo article says "Moscow
tries to attract the elite of
world university youth
through the IUS, concen
trating principally on Afri
can and Latin American
counties. The IUS is p a r
ticularly well-developed for
this sort of work and is a
strongly Important sector of
international Soviet opera
tions. ,
Running the IUS from the
Soviet Unidn is M. Shelepin,
a former IUS President who
is now a member of the
Central Committee of t h e
Communist Party of the
USSR and successor to Ber
ia as head of the Commit
tee of State for the Secur
ity of the USSR (security
police). "The Choice speaks
well for him", comments
Ie Figaro.
The four stuterts came
from modest backgrounds
and Brazilian universities
did not offer courses in
their fields.
Mattos, 22, wanted to
study Opera. Although he
had not been politically ac
tive while in Brazil, the
IUS promised him a schol
arship for study in 1 1 a 1 y,
but upon arriving in Italy
(Continued on Page 4)
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suggest a remedy here; if
the profits are not suffici
ent, then this infant enter
prise will not perpetuate it
self. May I propose a more
realistic method of collect
ing the rent? (Or was it a
fine?) I would suggest an
initial .05 cent fee (a sure
stimulation to business)
plus an activity fee record
ed by a lipometer which
would measure the length,
frequency, and effective
ness of contact(s). Per
haps our physics and soci
ology departments could be
persuaded to lend a hand
in designing a suitable de
vice J
If I would accomplish
nothing else 1 at least wish
to strongly urge the im
mediate and widespread
acceptance and the fre
quent use of this idea. The
"r" in romance has long
suffered to stand for rev
enue, and now that the op
portunity is here the im
portance cannot be o v e r
stressed. Lets put men back
on the map.
David Hendrickson.
r "
Peace Corps Shouldn't Include
Romantics and Eager Beavers
The American social
worker mentality t h a t re
gards the world as our sick
oyster has probably done
more good than bad. But
l am re
lieved that
P r esidnt
Kennedy is
trying to
get his
duckl in g s
in a row
before dis
patch i n g
the pro
posed "peace
Sevareid
corps" of eager youngsters
to work among the mud
huts of Africa and the tin
can shantytowns of Latin
America.
It is faintly possible that
they can accomplish some
thing, although it will have
nothing to do with peace.
To the restless and large
hearted young, of course,
distant misery is always
more attractive than mis
ery close to home. I have
just met the lovely daugh
ter of a British statesman
who is setting sail to do so
cial work in the West In
dies. Ten blocks from her
London home, thousands of
West Indians live in the sor
did tensions of North Ken
sington. I know true be
lievers in Washington, D.C.,
who travel ten thousand
miles to be moved by the
sufferings of the black men
Dr. Schweitzer is trying to
help, but who never set foot
in the Negro ghettos of
southeast Washington.
On their way to black
Africa the young American
corpsmen and corpsgirls
will pass hundreds of Afri
can boys and girls heading
for Europe and Amei ica for
study and work. Many of
them will be equally self
less, but many others of
them intend never to re
turn if they can help it, or
to return equipped to make
as much money as fast as
they can. African society, I
would guess, is the most
profoundly materialistic on
earth.
The young American
idealists are g o i n g to be
shocked to find a high per
centage of their black
counterparts In African col
leges totally inured and In
different to the sufferings of
their own countrymen anl
interested in freedom, not
as individual freedom, ht
as the political reshuffle
that will give (hem the
jobs, big hoi'gfs, oars aid
servants, their true goals In
life.
The "peace corps" re
cruiters must rule out two
types at the start-4he ro
Faculty Drive Set
For March 13-17
The All University Fund
fAUF) faculty drive will get
under way March 13 and run
until March 17.
Money collected by the
drive will be given to the Ne
braska Division of the Amer
ican Cancer Society, Ortho
pedic Hospital, LAPiC, Tom
Dooly and World University
t .-swa?iajWI S:-
Service.
mantics and the eager
beavers. Both will simply
get their hearts broken and
return' as cynics, a posture
the young carry off but
awkwardly.
I suggest the administra
tors seek counsel, as far as
Africa is concerned, from
Ernest Montgomery. Ernest
is a red-headed, easygoing
boy from Connecticut, still
in his twenties. On the
grassroots, backwoods level
he was the most effective
representative of America
I've run across in years.
Until the government lost
him alas to the Rockefel
ler outfit in Ghana, he was,
as Information officer, the
only official American
among the millions of Ibos
in eastern Nigeria. There
he was America, all by
himself.
He never preached, he
never tried overtly to im
prove the people. He never
expected gratitude or even
results. So he often got
both. I lived a week in his
comfortable bachelor house
in Enugu, and every night
it was the gathering place
for Ibo politicians, journal
ists, doctors or just friends
who wanted to play his
records and shuffle around
in the "benue" or "high
life" dance steps. He was
the type who could drift
around the countryside in a
station wagon equipped'
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with sleeping bag and di
gest the native food. On one
trip this lanky youngster
took to demonstrating the
hoola hoop in village
squares, and created ador
ing pandemonium every
where he went. He knew
more about what was really
happening in that big sec
tion of Nigeria than any
foreigner there. In another
African district there was
another was another young
American, a highly trained
sociologist and social work
er. He was full of drive
and idealism. On housing
problems, for example, he
harried the local authori
ties, demanded action
daily, cried aloud at t h e
built-in corruption, sloth
and inefficiency, and ended
up disliked and isolated and
useless. He was an eager
beaver. He also happened
to be Negro, himself.
The "peace corps" ad
ministrators must realize
that it takes a very special
kind of foreign youth even
to become accepted in any
backward, ingrown, s e m i
primitive society. They
must also realize that it
takes years for any individ
ual to accomplish anything
worth accomplishing. A sys
tem built on brief tenure
and rotation will, I freely
predict, become an expen
sive joke, a sequel to "The
Ugly American.".
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the people of Nebraska may
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