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TOKYO, "If anything happens The Vietnamese youth who said
thousands were ready to act spoke
no will take our place.,, as student demonstrations first
hoe wil ta kenourplace."erupted in opposition to the Sai-
Those words were spoken by a gon government's action against
kudent in South Viet-Nam this Buddhist foes.
weekend. For Asia they had a Word from the Vietnamese capi-
lamiliar ring.tal was that student .representa-
Student-led' moves in Asian tives had taken over the leader-
iountries in recent years have ship of a developing movement
hreatened and toppled govern- against the regime of President
Ints, forced cancellation of a Ngo Dinh Diem.
ited States President's visit and Students Powerful
ritten dramatic, s o m e t i m e s Vietnamese student activities
loody chapters of history, emphasize the place they and
More of this history now is being their fellows hold in Asia.
ecorded in South Viet-Nam. One obvious comparison goes
back to the revolt of April, 1960,
that brought down the govern-
[Fosters ment of Syngman Rhee in South
Korea.
d* In a striking parallel, South
euKorea was under the authoritar-
fan rule of a fervent anti-Commu-
4/nist whose government was backed
'he dentalscholills by American fighting men and3
Thee years and About will00pe dollars. But protests had long been
heterya how dentists can make s ounded against the Rhee regime,
Letrmie hw dntits an akecentering on election rigging and
fetter use of "chairside assants." police brutality.
The National Institute of Health Spark of Revolution
iwarded the school $84,000 for the On April 11, 1960, the body of a
irst year of the study, which will police-tortured student was taken
ie directed by Prof. William E. from the waters of Masan Harbor
row. in southern Korea. Students met
A chairside assistant is a woman in tea rooms, planned and then
fith at least a high school diplo- moved.
Ps who perfoms a variety of In the days that followed, 189
illed services for dentist and persons died under police gunfire
atent during treatments and in the streets of Seoul and other-
'peration. major cities, but on April 27 Rhee.
Prof. Brown says most of the resigned, his 12-year rule shat-a
rant money will support 20 such tered..I
sistants and additional research Only last April, university stu-a
'erscnnel. The assistants will work dents in Seoul defied a military
th dental students during their ban on demonstrations and
di*-cal training at the University marched to government head-I
0 researchers can ascertain their quarters bearing placards that de-v
ifluence on procedures, patients dared: "We oppose extension of
nd t'4: teaching program. military rule to the death." i
patients' attitudes toward den- Some Shy at Politics .
al care, the quantity and quality In other Asian areas, studentst
f clinical work and the physical recently have steered clear of anc
angements which may be need- active political role, sometimes be-f
d"to provide office space for the cause of togh g o v e r n m e n t s,p
4sltants will also be included in sometimes because issues andc
he study, along with the methods grievances have been settled..
Sacademic straining of dentists Japan's Zengakuren Student
use chairside aides effectively. Federation, once among the moste
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CHICAGO t) -- The scarcity of
land now is causing architects to
consider building schools that go
straight up.
A Chicago architectural firm,
one of the country's leading de-
signers of educational buildings,
has designed a school of 24 stories,
plus a low-rise building for a -
ministration and assemblies. /
It is a new trend of thought in
school buildings, particularly in
cities where spaces is in short
supply.
Six compact school units are
spaced on four-floor segments classrooms down long corridors,
with each unit having a capacity and longer wings, will be old hat.
for 480 students. Glass will nearly disappear in the
As in skyskraper office build- schoolroom.
ings, services for the school tower And with controlled lighting and
are concentrated in a central core. air-conditioning, the climate in
Surrounding space is open and each classroom will be uniform.
flexible to accommodate the varied Such compact schools built in
needs of education in the future. square or rectangular masses are
Architect Charles W. Brubaker now in operation in places as di-
suggests that the design will prove vergent as Kimberly, Wisc., Mont-
thought-provoking to school space gomery County, Md., and Beau-
concepts which are based on to- mont, Tex.
day's sprawling suburban tracts And here's why school boards
of land. like them:
Higher Education Their compactness slashes heat-
He suggests this offers a solu- ing costs, and more than pays for
tion to a new high school, new air-conditioning.
community college and-or urban The square block design means
revitalization programs, the school is designed from the
If a new trend in school build- inside out, with due consideration
ing takes hold with boards of edu- o today's teaching methods, which
cation, a lot of favored architec- feature small conference rooms,
tural concepts will be tossed aside, multiple purpose classrooms and
School designs which string individual study cubicles.
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ASIAN MELEE-Club-swinging South Korean police move in to disperse some one thousand Yonsei
University students during a demonstration in Seoul. This particular student uprising occurred in
November, 1960, when the country was still unstable after the toppling of Syngman Rhee. The
rioters were demanding the release of 56 students arrested after an attack on homes of two Amer-
ican officials of the university.
militant, now is divided internally
and weakened. The Zengakuren
led the violent demonstrations
against ratification of the Japan-
U.S. security treaty that resulted
in the cancellation of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower's planned
visit to Japan in 1960.
Although quiet now in econom-
ically booming, politically stable-
Japan, the students who throng
the streets of Tokyo and other
cities in their high-collared uni-
forms and caps still represent a
potential force that cannot be dis-
counted.
Burma Riots
Another scene of student-gov-
ernment trouble has been Burma,
where the military government
in July, 1962, quelled student riot-
ing in an incident in which 16
youths died.
The bloodshed stemmed from
student protests against what they
called repressive dormitory rules
that included an 8 p.m. curfew.
Last December it was reported
that an unrelenting student cam-
paign or agitation against the
government still was going on. In
May the military regime an-
nounced a decree bringing all pri-
vate education in Burma, except
religious schools, under govern-
ment controls.
Company Union
Some Asian governments have
attempted to meet the threat of
possible student challengers by
sponsoring student movements
they can control.
One example is Indonesia, where
students occasionally demonstrate
against something or someone the
government is against, but they
carefully follow guidelines laid
down under President Sukarno's
so-called guided democracy.
Education is revered in Asia and
students are respected. The Viet-
namese government has made
plain it knows this. An official in
Saigon acknowledged it openly,
saying "the students could develop
into one of our most sensitive
issues.
Suicide Rate
Rises Ac-utely
The suicide or attempted sui-
cide rate in the emergency room
of the University Hospital in-
creased 89 per cent between 1957
and 1962, Drs. Lynn W. Blunt' and
Richard J. Levy reported in -a re-
cent University Medical Bulletin
article.
The study also showed that the
total number of patients seeking
emergency treatment increased
only 23 per cent.
Of the 133 cases analyzed from.
the two comparative years, it was,
found that suicide attempts were
most common among white Prot-
estants and that half the victims
were married. Many were house-
wives, students or unemployed.
Only nine per cent of the at-
tempts were successful. These pa-
tients were either dead on arrival
or died soon after reaching the
hospital. The attempts usually in-
volved overdoses of medicines or
self-inflicted wounds, the doctors
found.
More than 33 per cent of these
patients had a history of psychia-
tric trouble and nearly 20 per cent
were under psychiatric treatment.
These suicide attempts "pre-
sent a complex and yet: unmet
challenge to the medical profes-
sion," the report stated. "Treat-
ment does not offer a guarantee
against suicide attempts,", accord-
ing to University physicians.
"Some patients will be overwhelm-,
ed by problems in spite of profes-
sional assistance."
Hatcher Journeys to Kent State
To Deliver Graduation Speech
Speaking at the August com-
mencement exercises of Kent
State University in Ohio,. Univer-
sity President Harlan H. Hatcher
told the graduates that "today is
not an end but a beginning-and
a college education is now more
of a beginning than ever before."
President Hatcher contrasted the
necessity of further professional
training in today's world to the
day's when students "felt that
they were prepared for life when
they graduated from college with
a B.A. degree," as well as to the
generation of students before them
who- "felt themselves equally for-
tunate to have had a high school
diploma."
"How quickly epoch-making ad-
vances are made and then taken
for granted;" President Hatcher
remarked, citing this aspect of
progress as "one of the most sig-
nificant and dramatic facts about
this period."
Vast Knowledge
President Hatcher went on to
say that "human / knowledge is
already vast and is rapidly grow-
ing. It must be translated into
human skills and understanding
out the most careful and exacting
training, you are unprepared to
cope. with it, or to advance it fur-
ther.
"Much of the unrest of the
world today is rooted in denials
and in lack of.opportunity for the
oncoming generation as well as the
vanishing hopes of the older to be
a vital, participating part -of this
progress."
President Hatcher suggested
that the same high standards re-
quired of today's scientists be in-
troduced as well into political pro-
cedures and social understandings,
saying, "As we engage.- in . the
enormously ekpensive project of
exploration of outer space, we
must, redouble our energy to at-
tack all of the unfinished business
which still remains so urgently
about us here on earth."
Talent Training
President Hatcher emphasized-
that their primary responsibility Is
"to train your talents to the fullest
possible capacity and then use
them for all -they are worth."
In addressing the graduates,
President Hatcher returned to his
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