'ROM% FEBRUARY 2. 1962
Student Strikes Disturb Latin
By SARALEE ORTON
'-- One of the 'biggest problems
with which Latin-American edu
cators must contend is student
strikes in the colleges and univer
sities.. Cesar Picon. visiting pro
fessor from Ayacucho, Peru, said
yesterday.
• Picon,- director of student Wel:-
fare Service at Huamanga Univer
sity in Peru, has . spent the last
:five months on a tour, of 20 col
jeges and . universities in the
:United States, to obtain infornia
tion. on student counselling.
STUDENTS STRIKE. and re
;.fuse to go .to class sometimes as
.; often as six. times a year, Picon
:said, usually because- social
t and political problems on the
national pr international level.
One reason .for the prettalence
of these strikes is the. cultural
background of the South Ameri
can' countries, he said.' A long
history of .dictatorships . did not
,;always allow people to express
their -opinions, he explained.
r.When freedom came, many peo-
J ple were not prepared for A—
nne, freedoni requires a special
education. Picon said.• ,
In addition, the class stucture
- of Latin-American countries' is
different than here because of the
absence of a large middle class,
Picon said. Only the'extremes of
.1 a small,' wealthy upper class and
Dancer to Give
iesson, Recital
; Charles Weidman, professional
modern dancer, will present a
modem . dance program at 1:30
p.m: Saturday in White Hall. The
program ie, open 'to the public.
7144 FIRST PART of the pro
gram will' consist-of a lesson in
modern, dande by Weidman. Any
member of the audience may par
ticipate in the lesson.
The second portion of the pro
gram, beginning at 3:30 p.m., will
consist of a lecture-demonstration
on the nature of the dance and a
solo performance by Weidman.
The lecture-demonstration will
be conducted by Mikhail Sentare,
who • will discuss - the relationship
between art and the dance. •
• ~y.rErommes SOLO' -perform
ance will be entitled "Saints, Sln
neds and Scriabin." ThiS perform
ance will consist of 22 numbers
Including "Themes of Destruc
tion;" "Sad Garden," ' "Moham
nied's Mountain," "ThOughti Be
neath a Tree" and "Rasputin."
_AWS - Forms - -
Due at 5 Today
Today is the deadline for'sub
mitting applications for Asso
ciation of Women Students offi
ces. The forms,! which must be
submitted in duplicate, are due
at 5 p.m. at the Hetzel Union
desk. ' •
t . Candidates must have a 2.5
All-University average. Isien4-
• nees for president and first vice
president must also have previous
AWS experience,., defined the
eleCtions code' as work on AWS
Senate, community councils or
judicial boards. •
r • Other' offices to be filled, by
I.the .Feb. 13 and 'l5 elections are
second vice president, secretar y' and, treasurer. a
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a large, underprivileged lower because universities take a pat,
class must, he said. ternalistic attitude towards them.;
_ .
LATIN-AMEHICAN universi- In addition, students wish to
ties have become centers of social maintain their present standards
and political opinion, Picon said, of life so they become zonserva-:
The students, who are mostly tive, he said.
;from the lower classes, strongly "There is no New Frontier for ,
liberal and allied with the work- American students today," he
ers, become very concerned with added.
public affairs and may strike in The University of Huamangit
protest, he explained. I has taken steps to combat these;
As . a -final reason for student 'problenis by organizing student s
;discontent, Picon explained' that seminars on high - levels of- soci..l
universities . there have inherited elegy, economies, anthropology;
the European philosophy .which and political science, Picon said
emphasizes the intellectual side He said that the university is also;
of student • life and neglect 4 ihe planning to Construct residence'
;social and other' aspects. facilities on campus.
"There are few provisions for "A strong program of informal;
housing, counselling or placement,leducation, mainly on the social;
so students. betome 'more aggres-:levels and contacts with parents,
sive," he said..-- 2 -4anci relatives are other methods;
AMERICAN . STUDENTS don'tiof combatting the problems," he'
Ihave reasons to revolt, Picon said,'said.
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