The Hungarian Student, 1958 (2. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)
1958 / 2. szám
8 the Hungarian student Mrs. Laura Rubin Chairmen of Screening Boards University of California School of Medicine Dr. Malcolm Watts Cornell University Medical College Dr. Dayton Edwards Northwestern University Medical School Dr. John Cooper as well as Dr. Robert Boggs, Chairman. 3. Many organizations have also helped these students to become settled. We express our thanks for the excellent and untiring efforts to the following organizations: Church World Service International Rescue Committee Lutheran Refugee Service National Academy of Science National Catholic Welfare Conference United HI AS Service World University Service United Ukranian-American Relief Tolstoy Foundation 4. Many organizations and foundations made it possible for students to continue their studies by assuring them aid and scholarships, and by doing the related administrative work. For this help we thank the following organizations : Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Commonwealth Fund First Aid for Hungary Ford Foundation Free Europe Committee Inland Steel International Rescue Committee International Telephone and Telegram Kellogg Foundation Milbank Foundation Moses Foundation Rockefeller Brothers Fund Rockefeller Foundation 5. We will endeavor to achieve the best possible results in our studies, thereby expressing our gratitude for the support we have received—and hope to continue receiving. We know that by becoming experts in our field, we will serve not only our country, but also the interests of the United States. 6. The Supervisory Committee calls on the Executive Council to establish friendly relations with all university and youth organizations, as well as with refugee student organizations of the captive nations. 7. The Supervisory Committee urges Hungarian students to take an active part in all types of student organizations, and wherever possible assist in their leadership. S. The Executive Committee Council is to offer aid to our students in fulfilling their cultural interests and in intensifying their religious affiliations. 9. The Supervisory Committee approves the assignment of delegates to Catholic and Protestant organizations, and instructs that one of our students contact Jewish organizations too. 10. The Supervisory Committee approves of the agreement between our Association and the Hungarian Student and Youth Service. C. Resolution concerning external relations of AHS: United States National Student Association. 1. On behalf of the members of the Association, the Supervisory Committee welcomes USNSA. It approves of the friendly relationship and co-operation that the Executive Council has established with USNSA, and hopes that it will continue. 2. The Supervisory Committee herewith requests the USNSA Executive Committee to join with the seventh International Student Conference Resolution regarding the situation of refugee students, and to help them continue their studies in the following ways: a. Calling on student bodies of universities where Hungarian students are enrolled to help them with studies and social problems b. Supporting the placement service of the World University Service in offering scholarships through student bodies c. Encouraging authorities to support the emigration of Hungarian students still in Yugoslavia 3. The Supervisory Committee requests USNSA International Secretary to protest the imprisonment and execution of Hungarian professors and students, in the name of American university students and all affiliated associations. The Hungarian Government today does not allow autonomy in the universities, forbids freedom of expression, and breaks international agreements insuring these rights. The International Student Conference has declared “ ... all peoples should be free to develop educational systems in keeping with their own culture and traditions. All students in their pursuit of knowledge should have liberty of thought and expression in universities which are autonomous in their nature and administration.” We call upon our fellow American students to keep alive the world conscience, as long as Hungarian professors and students are imprisoned or hanged for spreading Hungarian culture and demanding independence for their people. 4. The Supervisory Committee requests USNSA Executive Committee to support the cause of Hungarian refugees admitted to the United States as parolees. Last year the United States Congress failed to change their status to permanent residents as recommended by the President of the United States. The Eightly-fifth Congress will again debate this issue during the current session in order to decide the future of victims of the Hungarian revolution. ENGLISH SUMMARY OF HUNGARIAN Dunántúli Hexameterek. Dezső Keresztúri, a shy university teacher, was arrested. With his arrest, and that of Kosary Komokos, the Hungarian government hoped to terrify those people who oppose the regime. One of Keresztúri’s poems, “Dunántúli Hexameterek” (“Poems in Hexameter about Dunántúl”) is reprinted in its entirety. (Editor’s Note'. A late bulletin just announced Keresztúri’s release from prison.) * * * The Genius. On January 27, 1860, Janos Bolyai died. A museum in his honor was erected in Marosvasarhely, which is today a part of Rumania. The impression made on philosophy and science by Bolyai’s discovery of non-Euclidean geometry greatly contributed to the present picture of world development. * * * AHS Supevisory Committee’s Resolutions. Resolutions concerning the internal affairs of the Association are to be found in the Hungarian section of this issue. * * * ISetvs from Home. Three hundred million rubles were borrowed from the Soviet U- nion in hopes of easing Hungary’s difficult financial situation. Attempts are also being made to regain grants which were squeezed out for agriculture and small industry. Culturally, writers are still attempting “word criticism.” Another View of Olympic Contestants. At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Hungarians won nine gold medals and placed in many events. After the Soviet intervention in Hungary, however, fifty-three athletes took refuge in foreign countries rather than return to their homeland. Since then nine have returned for their own reasons. Most of them, however, are in the United States, working, actively participating in sports, and living as free men. * * * Letters to the Editor. S. Zoltán of Baltimore, Maryland writes, “Of the four dollars in my pocket, I will send two to my fellow students coming from Yugoslavia. I could weep like a child at my inability to send more.” * * * Humor. In Budapest, jokes about Sputnik took various forms, sometimes sarcasm: “Sputnik brought forth a new situation among the stars: Venus lost its innocence, Saturn lost its ring, and the youngsters of Pleiads were deported.” The United States also drew a laugh. A discussion among American astronomers took place in an observatory after seeing the satellite: “Could that possibly have been the American ‘baby-moon’?” “It could not have been American,” they decided, “because there was no advertisement on it.”
