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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1954
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Something We Can Be Proud of...
A Successful Charity Drive at Rice
i he fi nal results for the 1954 Charity Drive have
nol been tabulated and although the drive is officially
over, it may be some time before they are known.
However, one thing«is certain—this has been the most
success ful d rive for charity in many years, and per-
haps the most successful.
Charity Drives at Rice in the past have been,
tor the most part, miserable failures and the setting
of any kind of a goal was merely wishful thinking on
the part of the charities committee.
Now it appears as if the goal of one dollar per
student set by the committee has been reached.
I he students and the organizations are to be
congratulated for this unselfish display of generosity.
Certainly a finer cause would have been difficult to
locate and the students can be sure that their dona-
tions will do a world of good for the less fortunate.
Charles Tapley, as chairman of the Charities
Committee, deserves praise for a job well done. Under
his direction, the committee changed their method of
collection, and it appears as if this policy is one that
should be retained in future years.
I he Rally Club and Student Council members
who devoted their time to making the collections in
the classrooms also did a fine job.
1 he Student Council passed a resolution recom-
mending that the money obtained by the school from
the fines assessed against the students for missing the
two days directly before and after vacations, be
donated to the drive. This recommendation was
amended by the Student Activities Committee to the
effect that the money be donated only if the students
reached the goal.
We hope that the administration will see fit to
do this if the goal is reached.
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American Students Tour Red Russia
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
first in a series of six articles by
Dean Schoelkopf, editor of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota Daily and one
of seven American college editors
just returned from a three-week
tour of the Soviet Union.)
By DEAN SCHOELKOUF
Editor, Minnesota Daily
(ACP)—The first Russians I
.saw were soldiers. Six of them—-all
armed—climbed aboard our plane
as it landed in Leningrad airport.
A senior lieutenant of the Red
army marched forward in the plane
and looked quizically at the seven
American students dressed in
srrange furry caps and coats. He
raised his right hand in salute and
addressed four or five sentences in
Russian to the other passengers.
Then he turned to us and said in
Knfdlish. "Passports." After we had
mown him our visas, the other five
soldiers stepped aside to let us
leave the plane.
We stepped into the chilly, three-
above-zero weather and were met
by a young, English-speaking offi-
cial of Intourist, the official Rus-
• iari travel agency. He welcomed us
to the Soviet Union and told us we
would be met in Moscow by other
Intourist representatives.
But the warmth of his reception
didn't erase the apprehension we
had when the six soldiers boarded
our aircraft. The strange welcome
was but the first of many unusual
situations we were to encountei'.
During the next 22 days in the
USSR, we were to travel more than
5,000 miles by air, train and car.
We were to talk to students in their
schools, workers in their factories,
farmers in their homes and direc-
tors and managers in their offices.
During that time we detected abso-
lutely no feeling of hostility to us
personally.
Early in our trip, one of the two
interpreters who travelled with us
throughout the country asked us
why we had come to Russia. We
told him the answer was simple.
Early last fall a few American col-
lege editors met at a student press
convention (the ACP conference in
Chicago) and decided they wanted
to see this country, so little under-
stood in the United States.
We applied to the Soviet Embas-
sy in Washington for visas, and
within three weeks Moscow granted
permission. The American state de-
partment issued passports Dec. 2-3,
and on Christmas day we boarded
a plane for Russia.
Students at Stalin University in
Tbilisi asked us who was paying
for the trip. When we told them we
financed the trip ourselves, one blue
eyed coed said in perfect English,
"Ooh, you must be very rich."
"Bourgeosie," shouted a black-
haired lad.
Our group was anything but
'bourgeosie. Most of us had financed
the trip through loans—in that re-
spect we were alike. Politically, we
were miles apart. Two of our group
were Taft men, one supported Eis-
enhower, and four belonged to the
Stevenson clan.
We had differences of opinion on
almost every issue, and in that re-
spect we provided a striking con-
trast to the Russian students we
met, who agreed on almost every-
thing in the area of religion, econ-
omics, politics and government.
Arguments on these subjects
erupted frequently during our talks
with Russian people. There were
few things we could agree on—but
through it all they remained com-
pletely friendly to us.
Almost everywhere we were ob-
pects of curiosity. Cosmopolitan
Muscovites, more accustomed to
visiting delegations, paid less at-
tention to us than their countrymen
in southern Russia.
In many areas we were the first
Americans the Soviet citizens had
ever seen. They followed us in the
streets and crowded around us if
we stopped to take a picture. It was
not unusual to stop in a department
store to buy a gift, and then turn
around to find from 25 to 150 Rus-
sians crowded about.
The only other Americans we saw
in Russia were at the United States
embassy in Moscow. We met ambas-
sador Charles Bohlen three times
during our stay, once at his Spasso
house residence during a luncheon
he and Mrs. Bohlen held for us.
The embassy there operates un-
der tremendous handicaps. Practi-
cally no contact is permitted with
the Russian people. Mail, which
moves through the Russian postal
system, is opened before it reaches
the embassy. All telephones are as-
sumed to be tapped. Wires and min-
iature microphones have been found
in the walls.
Russian police guard the entrance
to the embassy 'round the cjock, os-
tensibly to protect the Americans
but more likely to prevent any Rus-
sian fi'om entering.
A policeman is on almost every
corner in the cities. But a sight ev-
en more common than that of po-
licemen is that of Russian soldiers.
We saw Red troops everywhere we
travelled. It was not at all unusual
to see a platoon of soldiers with ma-
chine guns or rifles on their backs
walking down the main street of a
town. Russian soldiers travelled on
the trains we rode on, and from our
train window we once say infantry-
men running ad falling in the snow
—on the rifle range—and at mor-
tar practice.
We were told not to take pictures
which included soldiers, bridges,
ports or airfields, and our cameras
were taken away when we travelled
by air.
(ACP)—"Young people never are
w-hat they were in somebody else's
day."
So begins another analysis of to-
day's "lost," "silent" and "unkid-
dable" generation. This one, how-
ever, published by the St. Louis
Post Dispatch, is by a writer who
is actually in position to know some-
thing about generations—Margaret
Mead, author of "Male and Female"
and associate curator of ethnology
at the American Museum of Natural
History.
Anthropologist Mead says that,
as far as anyone can guess, dis-
satisfaction with youth "has been
going on since the 'Stone Age.'"
Even in Russia, she writes, where
the younger generation has been
thoroughly . indoctrinated and devi-
ators have been expelled, "it is
pretty doubtful whether middle-aged
Communists think young Commun-
ists are anything like as devoted to
the Party as they were."
We cannot get an objective ap-
praisal of the present generation
from our elders, therefore; nor,
writes Miss Mead, can we get a
definitive answer from the young
people themselves. "When they say
that they 'just want to be sure of
'a job,' ... 'a chance to marry and
have children,' where does the 'just'
come from ? ? . : . The 'just' means
that somebody — parent, teacher,
preacher, . . . writer, radio com-
mentator . . . has said they 'ought'
to be wanting something else."
Today's youth, according to the
noted anthropologist, is the product
of a generation that "left their
adolescents with little recourse ex-
cept to try to work out a new, less
contradictory and less authoritative
morality (than the one imposed by
the previous generation) for them-
selves.
"This new morality, the emerging
morality of the 1950s, has.a style
of its own, and special strength and
weaknesses ... It can be summed
up in a series of phrases. The fami-
liar farewell which has replaced
'Goodby' (God be with you) is 'Take
it easy' . . . The modern version
is an exhortation—not to idleness,
but to lack of strain. Take it easy,
keep your shirt on, don't get excited,
you've only one life to live."
A second significant phrase used
by the current generation is "It de-
pends on the situation," Miss Mead
says. "Modern youth is unwilling
to say categorically that any act
is wrong. To kill? But they are told
it is their place to kill in defense
of freedom. Adultery? When every
state has different marriage laws?
Theft?'In a world where the partisan
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Views From Other Schools
How's that? . . .
Students of beginning psychology
at San Diego State College (Calif.)
were asked recently to write down
what they considered to be their
"most valuable asset." Two ans-
wered "intelligence" — 6hd both
misspelled it. (ACP)
Cranberries, Anyone? ...
At the University of Alberta,
three radioactive chickens have
been stolen from the university's
atomic research laboratory. They
aren't fit for human consumption,
but, unless they have a Geiger
counter, the thieves wil-1 never
know. (ACP) >
Union Scale . . .
The Weekly Graphic at Pepper-
dine College (Calif.) is looking for
a flag pole sitter.
To publicize a school flag-design-
ing contest sponsored by the paper,
the Graphic says it will pay "union
scale to anyone who will perch
atop the flag pole on the adminis-
tration building." (ACP)
Choose A Better Situation—Or Is
It Circumstance? . . .
At Syracuse University, New
York, there's a campaign underway
to stop coeds from smpking while
on the move across campus.
Says the Daily Orange, student
newspaper: "The type of woman
who walks with a cigarette dang-
ling from her lips is not the type
to be found on the Syracuse camp-
us or that Syracuse coeds would
care to be associated with. Cigar-
ette smoking can be a graceful and
complimentary habit for a woman
—in the proper circumstance and
situation. The proper circumstance
and the situation is not when hur-
rying across campus between class-
es, skirt-tails flapping in the wind."
(ACP)
Come Clean . . .
(From Student Life, Utah State
College) 1
College is about like a laundry—
you get out of it just what you put
into it—but you'd never recognize
it.
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