ENNEs SWITZERLAND ff Foreign Lands Town Bly ENID I6APPIN of Contrast THE FIRST thing which struck Or perhaps we walked or took a me about Bienne and that trolleybus into town. This way I which I continually notice is that saw the small Protestant church, this town is, above all, a town of elegant in its simplicity - the contrasts, contrasts irretrievably only ornamentation came from interwoven. the flowers surrounding the build- There are the two languages ing. one hears on the bus - next to me the man spoke French, yet THE AREA surrounding was across the aisle the two girls were composed of old homes and speaking German. Bienne is an barns. As we sat in the garden we industrial town and from our could hear the chickens. Not very home I could see the factories far away was another. world of and modern apartments. Yet ten factories, railroad tracks, and a minutes' walk from the house, we beautiful modern school. The were lost in the paths which run small city park, quiet and cool through the forest of the. Jura was shaded by a brand new, mod- Mountains. A short distance away ern skyscraper, are the Tobenlch Gorges with And there is the old village. The all the force and beauty of its first morning, all I saw were flow- cascades, whirlpools, and moun- ers -- people bought and sold per- tain waters. haps more flowers than food. Each I was lucky enough to see the time I wandered through, there city perhaps differently than many was something new which I hadn't others. We often took our bikes seen before. There were the steps. and rode the entire afternoon, leading to the Gothic church and stopping by the lake to eat pastry. the small adjacent fountain, the MAGAZINE Vol. VI No. 2 Sunday, October 4, 1959 TOWN OF CONTRAST By Enid Lappin STUDENT LIFE--GERMAN By Dorothea Steudle SUPPRESSED HOPE By Thomas Piatkowski ON THE ROAD SOUTH i i i i arcades, the different styles of ar- chitecture showing the Germanic, and French influences, one on either side of the street. There was the tower and surrounding walls illuminated at night, still and peaceful compared to any other time of the day. THE BOUNDARY is distinct and yet one passed from the old town to the new almost without noticing. For me it began with the policeman directing traffic - straight and stern with an expres- sionless face and his long white gloves covering hands which mo- tion silently and gracefully to cars, bikes, and pedestrians. How can one help but notice the people in the store here who say merci, au revoir, adieu, mer- ci as they open the door for a customer, whether he has bought or not. And there was the con- ductor on the trolley who said thank you when he took our ticket and who always took your arm to help you down the stairs. He was there to take all packages, baby carriages, and dogs to the back where there was a cleared' area for those who wished to stand and smoke." AFTER spending much time in ~one store and making several purchases, obviously for gifts, I was amazed to hear the proprietor offer me also a small gift.-I'm afraid I was so astonished that I had to ask for a repetition. The rest, I'm afraid, are quiet memories and' ideas that only those who shared them with me would understand, a summer rich and rewarding in every possible way. Enid Lappin spent the sum mer in Bienne as part of the Experiment in International Living. She is a junior in the literary college. Why Travel ".,Around- the World?" Strange lands and different cultures and the interests they hold for students at the University is the subject of this magazine. Some of the writers (Thomas Piatkowski, Enid Lappin and James Seder) participated in the Experiment in International Living during the past summer. As an Experimenter, each lived with a family in the country of their choice and visited interesting sites within that nation. Roger Anderson traveled to Russia and three satellite countries for three months through the 1959 Lisle Fellowship program. He saw places of interest and spent some time talking with Russian students. The Mexican and Central American trip was an unusual attempt by Barton Huthwaite and three other students to drive by motorcycle down the western coast of the Western Hemisphere. The junior year abroad program has been adopted by several American universities. Dorothea Steudle spent a year at a university in Munich and describes the "visiting" student's life there. Upon the invitation of James A. Houston, Northern Seryice Officer of the Canadian government, Philip Power traveled to Baffin IslAnd, above the Arctic Circle, to pursue his study of Eskimo carvings in the region. Hilary Smith tells of her experience working for the American Friends' Service Committee in Berlin . . . and of the people from many lands that she worked with. A visit to the Vienna Youth Festival during a ten-week trip through Europe provided the material for Lloyd Gelman's article on European propaganda. We hope you, the readers, will find these adventures in foreign lands both interesting and provocative. -Joan Kaatz Magazine Editor ECO'S athletic machine is harnessed to an engine£ as rickety as a model "T." "Sputtered by outdated coaching methods and poor facilities it chugs a road of political privilege. In the driver's seat Ii a confed- erated club ,system, shapedi by the financial dictates of political whin.. With this directive the road ahead looms as a quagmire of wasted athletic potential, petty jealousies and soiled reputations. That Mexico won six gold med- als in the Pan American games is a tribute to, the athletes and coaches who overcame obstacles built by a political muddle. In international competition the clubs are ruled by a Confedera- tion president. A political 'appoin- tee, it is his job to determine who, is to represent Mexico in each sport and who is to be overlooked. A symbol of international good will as well as manager of inter- national sports affairs, it was ex- pected that the Confederation President would assume a promi- nent voice at the Pan American Games in Chicago. However, "more important busi- ness affairs" stated a Mexico City. sport journal, "prevented the president from attending." "Ev- eryone," continued the same jour- nal, tongue-in-cheek, "will remem- ber him for the fine job he has done in the Games." Aside from the medal award winners at the Games, Mexican, teams were accoladed "could have" laurels from the U.S. winning team coaches. "Mexico could have a1 tremendous water polo team .. . could have a tremendous basket- ball team . . . could have a tre- mendous track team if she devel- oped her coaching techniques," quoted the sports journal. The U.S.1 advised Mexico to send her pres- ent coaches across the Rio Gran-7 de to study American. coaching methods or to offer foreign coach-i es a chance to modernize Mexicanl training techniques. But, contin- ued the Mexican City journal, "the1 ears of the Confederation are deaf." That statement is not newl to many thousands of Mexican sports enthusiasts, Mexican ath- 1 By RICHARD MINTZ letes have scarred the record books with a bickering history. LIE MANY Mexican athletes, Alejandro Gaxiola is person- ally familiar with the feuds that separate the Confederation from its athletes. The University swim- ming star, who represented Mexi- co in the Pan American Games, is a bitter critic of everything the Confederation does and dictates. Opening his trunk-filled store- house of newspaper clippings about Mexico's victories in the Games, Gaxiola traced the history of ath- letes that made headlines. He pointed first to a cartoon of a tennis player, hobbled by age and bowed by a long beard. On his head are two crowns. This was Antonio Palafox who triumphed in men's and mixed doubles com- petition at the Games. The Con- federation, though, was reluctant to give him a place on the team because he was "too old," quoted the cartoon, for competition. Be- cause of Palafox, Mexico today is a center for international tennis tournaments. But ten years ago tennis was a struggling sport in Mexico, and Palafox was its prime mover to present fortune. Refused financial assistance from the Confederation to participate in a European ten- nis tournament ten years ago, Palafox nevertheless accepted the invitation. Hoping his tennis abil- ities would ticket his living ex- penses abroad the hopeful racket star entered tournament after tournament and won. Gaxiola had to dig deeply into his trunk to retrieve the well re- membered story of Colonel Hum- berta Mariles who was refused a ' A P - - -_ -- __. -- - - _ . = -_ , { R b R . .. P N pared f or the Games, Capilla was give Alvaro a place on the squad. F A Harnessed Athletic' Machine Mexico's Confederated Clubs berth on the 1956 Olympic team. The defending equestrian cham- pion, favored to repeat that year at Melbourne, had fallen from the' good graces of the Confederation and was denied the finances to back his trip. When Mariles tried to raise his own Olympic fund by soliciting an all-too-eager-to-help public, the Confederation made' him return all he earned. Mexi- co's sure-to-win equestrian team wasn't represented at Melbourne. The world's greatest platform diving champion at that time was Joaquin Capilla, the darling of Mexico's sport circles. The Con-' federation was certain that Capil- la would return a gold medal to Mexico at the Olympics but Ca- pilla wasn't so sure. He knew the competition at the Games, Gaxiola said, would be far more rigorous than that in Mexico. Capilla re- ceived an invitation from Gary Tobian and Pat McCormack, two' of America's great divers, and he decided to prepare for the Games in California with this top-calibre competition. Financing his own trip so that he'd be better pre- pared for the Games, Capilla was soon recalled by the Confedera- tion. If he didn't return immediately, said the Confederation, he would not be permitted to represent Mex- ico. The Confederation's state- ment was published in the sports journals, added Gaxiola, and its action was protested by coaches and fans. G AXIOLA takes particular pride in the photographs taken of Capilla whose arm is draped across the slimly-built, beaming athlete holding an enormous trophy. Al- varo Gaxiola, former University diving star before he was declared academically ineligible this se- mester, is Alejandro's brother and the winner of the Pan American platform diving crown. Four years ago, when Alvaro was ranked sec- ond to .Capilla, the Confederation decided he didn't merit a berth on the Olympic team. His name was withdrawn to make room for a Confederation delegate. The Con- federation, critical of his abilities before this past summer's Pan American Games, was reluctant to give Alvaro a place on the squad. 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