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Show University Unofficially To Celebrate UN Day By PATTI CRISWELL Chronlcl Ftur Writer Tomorrow is United Nations Day. BUT THE UNIVERSITY will unofficially celebrate the memorial memo-rial occasion next Tuesday, due to the conflict of Homecoming. On that day the University's Collegiate Council for the United 'Mations (CCUN) is having a special forum on the international organization. Participants will be Dr. Philip Sturges of the history department, Dr. Carroll Hurd, political science, and Dr. Obert C Tanner, philosophy. The meeting will be at noon in the Union Ballroom. ' NINETEEN YEARS AGO this week, with the ratification of :harter, the United Nations came into existence, established as a practical means for maintaining world peace and justice for all mankind. In 1947, the General Assembly of the UN declared that each year Oct. 24 would be set aside for the official observance of United Nations Day. "The UN's ultimate success depends upon the understand ing of the peoples of the world," according to Kathryn Brandon, Bran-don, University CCUN president. Miss Brandon said that the CCUN is a national student organization organi-zation with college affiliates and regional and state divisions, through which students can express their support for the UN. CCUN, AFFILIATE OF THE American Association for the UN. is the United States' member of the International Student Movement Move-ment for the UN. More than 50 countries are members in the association. asso-ciation. The goals of CCUN are to publish information concerning the UN's work, to encourage and provide aid for affiliates doing research re-search on UN activity, to recommend and support the policies and increasing effectiveness of the United States as a member of the UN, and to cooperate with the UN Student Association in other countries by working towards better understanding. IN A RECENT MESSAGE to the youth of the world, U Thant, UN Secretary General, said that everyone must understand the goals of the UN and prepare to help realize them, "to save succeeding succeed-ing generations from the scourge of war, to establish conditions for universal justice and to provide decent conditions of life for all people." |