With hammer and trowel the students at the Engineering Colleges in Oldenburg and Buxtehude gave vent to their dissatisfaction with the bad conditions of their Institute Buildings. During the night of July 17 the Oldenburg students walled up the main entrance to the State Engineering College for Building and Surveying and fixed a notice to it: "Closed because of danger of collapse.". In Buxtehude the students of the Engineering College had already boarded and nailed up the entrance to their 90-year-old instituion the night before.

For the first time in its 356 years of existence, the Justus Liebig University in Giessen has begun publishing its own magazine for the present 4200 students there (1958: 1000). It bears the title of "Pendel" and is published by a student editorial team commissioned by the student representative council (AStA); it is supported by AstA contributions—which were increased for this purpose.

Paraguay

The President of the National Union of Paraguayan students (FUP), Osvaldo Rosa, has been in the Argentinian embassy, where lie has been granted asylum, since June 29. Rosa, who has been constantly persecuted by the police of the Stroessner regime, has been accused in an official communique of sub-versive acts of terror. It is presumed that the regime took this measure in view of the danger which might possibly be evoked by the re-election of the student leader at the next FUP assembly. A liberal club in Paraguay is calling on the students to give declarations of solidarity for Osvaldo Rosa. Apart from Rosa, numerous other students, also accused of terror acts, are at present sheltering in the Argentinian and Uruguayan embassies and in other diplomatic agencies. Various other student leaders are exposed to torture in the prisons of the Stroessner regime.

USA

More than 100 college and university students from all over the South attended the first all-South Youth Conference on Human Relations held at North Carolina University from May 2 to 5.

The conference took no positions on the crucial problems of the South. It sought rather to attempt to define some of the problems confronting Southern youth and to discuss solutions and approaches to these issues. Racial segregation was the most widely discussed topic at the meeting, as thousands of young people and students were being jailed in Alabama even while the conference delegates talked. YAC made a determined attempt to get participation in the conference from the "Deep South" white universities in order to encourage an open discussion of conflicting opinions. Very few students of segregationist persuasion, however, responded to invitations to the conference.

Japan

Eighteen students and 15 policemen were injured on June 15 when police tried to disperse about 1500 demonstrating students. The demonstrations were being held by students belonging to the Japan Marxist Student League, the Japan Socialist Student League, the Japan Socialist Youth Lcagne and the Structural Reform Faction. At the rally, the student demonstrators prayed for Michiko Kamba, who was killed on the same day three years ago during a massive demonstration against the Japan —USA Security Treaty. They adopted a resolution protesting the call of USA nuclear powered submarines to Japanese ports and the Japan-South Korea normalisation talks.

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