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Plans are being drafted for a project to send 12 University students to work on Sioux reservations in the Dakotas this summer, Byron Stookey, Jr. '54, associate director of Advanced Standing, announced yesterday...
...Sioux tribes have recommended recreational supervision, teaching, farming, research and industrial counseling as the work they need most...
Other jobs would involve working with delinquents on a reservation farm and aiding in the relocation of a Sioux village which must be moved to free area for a federal dam and highway...
...trouble is that more and more the author is a punster who sees the laughable relations between words, but not those between people. An Indian in the present novel refers to his mother as "Sweet Sioux." A malaproping wife says that a nominal fee is "nominal in name only." At best, this sort of thing produces a sheepish smile, and at worst, a wince of embarrassment. And De Vries is no more able than any other punmaker to hold back his worst. Possibly De Vries' worst refers to a "great" comedian: "Harry has many things that make him grate...
CHAPLAIN T. J. KLEINHANS Sioux City A.B., Iowa