University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 2, 1976
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Russian observes similarities and differences here
By FRED JOHNSON
Staff Writer
When Viktor Sergeevich Maslav arrived at the University of Kansas in the first week of January, he saw some squirrels running around campus.
Those squirrels were roaming free and unafraid, Maslov said Friday. That, he said with a smile, convinced him that the people he'd meet here would be friendly.
Maslov is a Russian educator visiting KU from Leningrad University through the International Exchange of Scholars Program.
He is living in a studio apartment while staying in Lawrence. When interviewed, Maslov spoke through a translator. Peter Alkman, assistant instructor in Slavic languages and literature, because he speaks little English.
Maslov graduated from Leningrad University in 1950 and is a candidate for the doctor of philosophy degree in history of 19th century Russian literature. The degree Maslov now holds is the equivalent of a Ph.D. from an American university.
Maslov will be here throughout this semester and will return to Russia in May. He is teaching a course on the history of Russian literature of the second half of the
19th century. His students will study Russian authors including Tolstoy, Leskov and Chekhov. He also is teaching a Russian novelist to students and Russian language teachers.
Maslov said that he wasn't having trouble lecturing to his students, which must mean Russian literature and language were well taught at KU.
Only Russian majors and instructors may enroll in his courses because Małovie lectures in Russian. He said he had taught him English, but he'd never learned to speak it.
Maslov said he was learning some English by watching television. He commented that although the technical level of television programs was very high, too many programs emphasized violence, which he thought was bad for children.
The content of Russian television is more serious, Maslov said, and more current plays are shown. Russian television has a strong focus on one and is entirely educational, he said.
He said he thought KU students were at a special time happy and in good mood, the same time happy and in good mood.
Maslov also said there was little difference in the way American and Russian students spent their free time. Russians form clubs for sailing, skiing, acting and playing ball much like American students, he said.
The Russian school system has eight years of mandatory education, he said, and is more condensed than the American system. It is difficult to make exact comparisons, Maslov said, but a student who finished the first eight years in Russia would be equivalent to a high school graduate in the United States.
After the mandatory eight years, a student can continue for two years in the regular school system, then enter a technical school or a university, he said. A student can go to a technical school implemen- ting computer science, Msakov said, but his skill upon graduation is lower than those who go to school two extra years.
Students who receive government support while attending universities must pass a certain test.
He said a college student in Russia would spend five or five and one-half years at a university and have 36 hours of classroom lecture a week.
who fail the examination, Maslov said, can attend night school at a university, but they receive no government stipend.
Maslov said Russian universities had student representative bodies similar to the ones at KU. Every complaint against the university was made in the said, but it is discussed and kept in view.
Maslov noted that it's possible for the United States and Russia to have and maintain a friendly relationship, even though they find themselves on opposite sides of conflicts that erupt in many developing third-world countries.
Maslov said the best way for the two countries to achieve a friendly relationship was through the exchange of trade, teachers, students, information and culture. The United States and Russia should find general points of understanding that will lead to good relations and yet allow each country to retain its own character, he said.
However, Maslov said, any friendship
between the two countries' interest in
other parts of the world is unacceptable.
keep in mind is the good of the people in those countries, he said, and that can best serve as a guide.
Maslov said that although he preferred Russian food, he had eaten American food at the homes of his friends and had liked it. He said when he ate alone in his apartment he made Russian food from American products.
short time, Maslov said, he finds the climate pleasing and similar to that of Leningrad, where he was born and has lived in New York. He found Leningrad at this time of the year, he said.
Although he has been in Kansas only a
Maslov had he been well received by everyone he had met at the University. He had glad to find people at the University who had met when they were visiting Russia.
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40 students would have internships through contacts made by the school.
RALPH GAGE, managing editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World said the paper had employed interns in past summers.
Several students already have applied for this summer, he said adding that the university has a strong program.
Jerry Seib, Hays sophomore, said he wanted to get an internship with a newspaper and already had talked to one editor.
"The editor didn't know the paper's financial situation, so I don't know if you'll get it."
Ed Mills, manager of the Lawrence Job Opportunity Center, said some students succeeded in finding jobs completely on their own.
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"It's not useless for a student to apply now, but students will probably be told to come back later because the employers want them," he said among many people they'll be hiring. "Mills said."
HOWEVER, MILLS said there might be more jobs this summer because the present unemployment rate in Lawrence is between 18 and 20 percent, compared to last year's five per cent.
"But we normally get between 800 to 1,000 students looking for summer jobs and placement usually runs to about one-third of that," Mills said.
Employers usually don't know what their needs for the summer will be until school is nearly over, Mills said. He said many students working part-time during school decide in the semester to work full-time for the same employer during the summer.
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He said the major portion of summer jobs would be outdoors.
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The KU department of buildings and grounds usually hires students in the summer for landscaping, Lee E. Ousdahl, assistant director of physical plants, said. "But we don't accept applications until the 15th of March," Ousdahl said, "and they're usually applying for part-time jobs for now, and want full time jobs in the
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"We usually have approximately four times as many applicants as people we hire."
KU's Office of Student Financial Aid helps students find summer employment, said Rita Schrag, student employment counseler there. But she said she thought it might be too early for students to be looking.
"Students started looking for summer jobs in December, but employers will be waiting until students who are working for them must be before they will like anyone." Schrag said.
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"But to get a local job it takes a lot of leg work." Schrap said.
A secretary for the Lawrence Parks and
Recreation Department said at least 100
attendees attended.
She said jobs offered were for lifeguards, playground assistants and supervisors, day camp counselors, as well as such specialties as track and field and tennis.
"We don't know how many jobs will be available yet because last year's personnel must give us their applications first if they want to re-apply," she said.
ABOUT 10 PER CENT of the 200 to 300 summer applicants at Gibson's have been hired, Joleen Langlois, a Gibson's credit office employee said.
"We have to throw away the old applications every three months because so much time has passed."
Kevin Brady, manager of the Pizza Hut, said many students already had applied for it.
"I usually tell them to come back a few weeks before the semester is over because our help changes from time to time," Brady said.
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IF THE STATE BILL is approved by the legislature, money will be lent only to Kansas residents, he said. Revenue bonds would be issued by the Kansas Board of Regents to raise money for loans issued under the bill.
"I'll be great if this goes through," he said. "More students will be able to attend
In the 1974-75 school year, 1,062 University of Kansas students received financial aid through the federal program, Rogers said, but without it, the university would not have the Kansas Higher Education Act.
Students going to KU, he said, have fewer problems getting federal loans than do students going to other Kansas colleges. Students going to St. Louis colleges and colleges in Kansas, Roders said.
Rodgers said that Kansas students who couldn't afford college before would have an extra year in college.
UNDER THE FEDERAL bill, he said,
students and commercial lending institutions,
such as banks, are guaranteed that interest on a student loan will be paid by the federal government until nine months after a student leaves school.
After the nine-month period, students must repay the loan at an annual interest rate of seven per cent. Rodgers said he would be covered by the federal government.
federal program because of the risks and red tape involved, Rodgers said.
However, many Kansas banks are un-
willing to lend students money under the
"One of the problems was that the volume got so large that the banks' investments were out of proportion," he said. "With so many more students going to graduate, they take eight to nine years before the banks could get back any returns on their loans."
SOME STUDENTS defaulted on tweer roodgers, Rodges said, which involved much time and paper work for the banks before they were able to money back from the federal government.
Rodgers said banks would benefit from passage of the state bill because the state requires that if defaults and slow interest, payment be made to continue to make student loans under the proposed state bill, but the state would be an unhappy bank, the banks that don't participate in the process.
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"We are so restricted by the federal bill." Clark said. "Red tape made it much more costly than the normal business arrangement."
William Terry, loan offerer for the First National Bank of Lawrence, said that his bank would generally support legislation that would make the responsibility for making student loans.
Terry said that the banks were losing money on the loans because money was going out to students faster than it was coming in.
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