Argus, 1948-03-01

              argus ki vol 1 march 1 1948 buffalo new york no 11 in memory czechoslovakia wounded at munich and has since died of a disease whose symptoms are red spots growing to cover completely the body-politic wanted political awareness the idea of students being fired upon and beaten by the police is not a pleasant one but it happened last week in czechoslovakia of all the peo ple in that unfortunate nation it was the students who showed their true feelings when the red coup took place they demonstrated knowing full well what the consequences were likely to be under the new regime yet they demonstrated and showed to the world that at least students have ideals and are willing to back them up with actions however futile they may be in the long run we of the argus realize only too well what our fate would be under such a dicta torial government as now exists in their country and so we re spect them even more for seek ing to retain what all young people deserve freedom of ex pression and freedom of action actually the action of the czech students was not unique students all over europe and asia not to mention the near east have a long record of demonstrations against things which deny their ideals to us this indicates that students in other parts of the world are much more concerned with the vital issues of the day than are we american students we don't advocate anarchy but we cer tainly do propose that students ir this country take their noses out of their books once in a while and notice that there is a world around them nsa is a good start in this direction but let's not get smug and think that we've arrived the students in this country being more numerous than those of any other country could ex ert a mighty force upon the di rection of our society but do they bother even when they know that they won't be clubbed or sant off to a camp no perhaps students in this country don't have ideals but we doubt this seriously it's just that they don't have the politi cal awareness that is traditional ainorjg other students of this weary globe and it's about time we woke up for who knows when it might be too late & plan for survival topic of uwf speaker benjamin weiner 20-year old veteran and full time field worker for united world fed eralists will speak on a plan for survival at norton union west room on march ist believing that the prevention of another war is the most im portant question facing the youth of today weiner a senior majoring in history at syracuse university has dropped his studies temporarily to work for united world federalists na tion-wide organization cam paigning for the creation of a j world federal government with authority to enact interpret and enforce world law adequate to maintain peace he is one of 13 american stu dents who have postponed their schooling to work on a bare ex pense basis travelling speak 1 ing raising funds fostering po litical action and in general helping to educate americans to the for world government weiner believes that war is not inevitable but that we cannot have world peace until we have aw and order on a world scale united world federalists the organization he represents is a non-profit non-partisan organi zation with more than 100,000 signed adherents and 20,000 ac tive dues-paying members in over 300 chapters throughout the nation the student division directed by students has 7,000 members in 150 high school and college chapters glee club sings in a return engagement be fore an enthusiastic audience of the kiwanis ckib'in the ho tel statler last wednesday the university glee club gavej the third in a series of con certs in preparation for the an nual heme concert on april j •■ 12th after opening the pro 1 ! gram with the university al , ma mater mr van lier direct ed the ensemble . through dr j j frank black's popular you are music and then conti sued through a varied program : of light classics modern and folk songs ed fadell the glee club's t tenor soloist sang the beautiful i have nothing to give you and presented old | mother hubbard as an encore j mary grace buscaglia sang , night and day and em brace me the ensemble con i eluded its program with a med j ley of victor herbert songs ' j after which the kiwanians 1 i joined the club in the whif ixenpoof song . i political issues club formed at ub a new discussion group has been organized on campus un der the name of the political issues club instigators of the organization hastened to point out that this club is a non-par \ tisan independent discussion j group whose aim it will be to consider all current controver sial topics in an effort to en courage students to exchange their views the club itself will adopt no resolutions their purpose be ing to consider and not crusade for anything under the direction of a plan ning committee composed of george schultz gene voss and i marty fried a program is be i ing developed covering top ! items of the day the next meeting will be held wednes day afternapn mar 10 at 3:30 in norton hall the discussion of this meet ing will be on the subject — czechoslovakia — puppet or free state leader of the dis cussion will be leland morri gle who has lived in europe and has perhaps a much bet ter perspective on the program anyone may come to the meeting of p i c and join in to the bull session response to this meeting according to mr fried will largely determine the future of the club's activ ities | tv under consideration television may be in the offing for norton union but probably not before next fall at the earliest according to a statement by union director dorothy haas at present she said the union is being besieged by television sales men miss hass emphasized that no definite plans have been made but it is expected that money for the purchase of equipment may be set aside some time in may the main problem to be overcome is the fact that at present the . cost of television sets is very high and it must be decided whether one large set or two small ones would best serve the purpose miss haas would like the opinions of the students in this matter film society stillborn after a brief existence the film classics society has been discontinued the innovators mitchell berkun and george hartmann have annouced that advance sales of season tickets have been too discouraging and would be insufficient to cover rentals of the films those few " who have bought tickets will have their money refunded the demise of another ambi tious intention on census ans wers strongly enoughmke com plaints of those who decry the lack of activity at the univer sity activity means active sup port too often support merely consists of empty promises andj loud assurances that dwindle into hot ai n the moment ; for action u.i^es " • eight ub students join vets march on washington for housing conf eight ub students have joined the march to washington d c to add their voice^to the demand of america's veterans for adequate housing robert d schaffer julian rivo irving fudeman melvin davidson howard leker franklin leker marty fried and al siegrist form the local a vct contingent to the national veterans housing conference originated and spearheaded by the american veterans committee the vet's housing conference which is now in session at washington is sponsored by the veterans of foreign wars the catholic war veterans the jewish war veterans the disabled american veterans the army and navy union and amvets these major veterans organizations have called this conference to urge speedy cojigressional approval of the taft-ellender wagner housing bill "" • we are urging passage of the taft'-ellender-wagner bill at this time because it is the only piece of legislation avail able which is both concrete and comprehensive enough to afford a satisfactory solution of our country shameful housing shortage said frank lin d roosevelt jr originator of the conference idea when asked to express the purpose of the conference conference strategy centers around the work that dele gates will do as lobbyists for the tew bill congressmen and senators will receive visits from their veteran-constituents and will be asked to state their position on the bill national legislators will also be asked to sign a petition to release the taft-ellender wag ner bill frccn the house bank ing and currency committee where it has been held for over two years by rep jesse wolcott of mich chairman of this committee conference officials hope in this way to secure the 218 signatures which are necessary to have the bill released to date over 2500 delegates have expressed their intention's of attending the conference besides spending their tima as lobbyists conference dele gates will hear addresses by senator robert a taft gen eral dwight d eisenhower and it is hoped that presi dent harry s truman will be f able to arrange his schedule to permit him to address the conference nsa pushes action for students ships madison wis — special — the national student associa tion nsa is urging passage of a resolution in congress which will extend the authority of the maritime commission to sell charter and operate vessels un til july 1 1949 nsa wants ships available for exchange student projects and european travel this sum mer many american students are planning to study and travel in europe but unless the ships are available most of these stu dents will be unable to go under present legislation the majitime's authority will expire april 1 of this year unless con gress passes the resolution the negotiating commission through which nsa is working cannot ask the maritime commission for ships nsa will not gain access to the ships if the authority of the i maritime commission is not ex j tended beyond april also if i the coast guard safety waiver i is not continued beyond march 31 the ships will have to under go a lengthy overhauling to conform to the coast guard safety rules in this event the ships could not be ready for service this summer congress does not allocate the ships for student use if the two ' routine resolutions are passed ; by congress nsa will stillhave ' to ask the maritime commission ' to allocate the ships for student ' travel what nsa is urging congress phys ed open house under the direction of mr james peelle the physical edu cation department has an nounced its new open house program every wednesday evening clark gymnasium will be open from 7 to 9:30 p m for the use of the ub faculty and student body their families and friends in addition to supplying facil ities for volleyball badminton shuffleboard table-tennis and handball mr peelle has said that shower and locker con veniences will be available continued on page 4 argus wants new members notice important argus meet ing tues mar 9 4 p m anyone wishing to join the staff of this paper should plan to attend this meeting help wanted if you are interested in writing news for the argus under the direction of one of america's most brilliant newspaper-men myself of course look in the argus office any friday afternoon and ask for the news-editor i the event that i am not in the office because i am out covering a hot story see my assistant mr john slatter who does not write as well as i do of course but who will be able to take your name if you spell it for him , — scoop siegrist buy prom tickets today deadline march 3 any student who feels that he is qualified and would like to be a candi date for election to the board of managers should fill out a special form which is available at the director's office