University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 17, 1977
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Soviet scientists give anthropology lessons
Staff Writers
By DAVID PARRIS and DIRCK STEIMEL
Four Soviet representatives were in the United States this week, but negotiating an arms limitation on Midges settlement was the last thing on their minds. The four are anthropologists and they gave seminars during a three-day stop at the University of Kiel.
The anthropologists came to the United States to give talks in Washington, D.C., on "Peaking of the New World," a symposium co-sponsored by U.S. and Soviet scientific societies. They also attended conferences in Chicago and New York City.
In addition to Arutunov, the anthropologists are Julian V. Bromley, Valery P. Alekseyev and Ilya S. Gurvich, all members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. They came to KU at the invitation of Crawford, professor of anthropology.
The four gave seminars on archaeology and physical and socio-cultural anthropology.
Bromley, head of the delegation, is the director of the Institute of Ethnography in Moscow and Leningrad and is secretary of the medium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
THE VISIT resulted in an understanding in regard to future research, Crawford said. Crawford spent last summer in the Soviet Union with a U.S. delegation writing an agreement to do a joint study with the researchers of the Moscow people from Southern Russia, the Caracuses.
"We are doing a comparable study on the Memnonite community new Newton," he wrote.
Similar studies are being done in California and Kentucky regarding the migration of the Sarnao people to the West American continent. The British-Americans in the Appalachian region.
Anthropologists involved in these three studies will meet with five Soviet scientists in Lawrence Nov. 21-25 to compare data. Crawford said they wanted to pinpoint the variables, such as genetics, diet and environment. The researchers are particularly interested in the effect inner-breeding has had on the aging process of these cultures.
ARUTUUNOV SAID this was Bromley's and his first visit to a small U.S. city. Their arrival marked a shift in the country's
SCoRMEBE gets first part of GM grant
The first installment of a $16,000 General Motors grant has been awarded to the Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Minority Engineers (SCoRMBE), Dave Roland, SCoRMBE president, said recently.
Roland said the organization would receive 4,000 from the 1979 study by Ralph C. Schmidt, who added 4,000 from the 1980 study.
"Because GM gave us the money, that says they believe the program can succeed."
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"We have to say, indeed, it's been very pleasant here in Lawrence. It's a very impressive university — very large — with the research, studies and equipment." Arutunov said.
anthropology symposiums in New York City and Chicago.
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Bromley, who spoke little English, said he particularly enjoyed the sightseeing aspect of the trip. He said they were fortunate to meet Chicago for the Columbus Day parades.
The two men have little connection with the work in the Soviet Union, Germany or France.
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"Here you have mostly the universities for scientific research. We in the Soviet Union have the university system, but with more emphasis on teaching than research. The universities of science where most postgraduate research and research is done," he said.
AT THE INSTITUTE OF Ethnography, 200 anthropologists are employed, whereas, at Moscow University, where the emphasis is on ethnobotany and cultural degree, there are only seven anthropologists.
Arutunov and Bromley agreed that Kansas' landscape and vegetation reminded them of the Ukraine, a Soviet agriculture region.
"The climate here seems to be more continental, but we have had a very short period of time."
Their visit included a tour of the city and university, as well as a new dining experience.
"We aren't use to use to huge steaks." Arutunov said after eating at a local steak house.
"Many of the dishes you find in Lawrence restaurants, you would also find in the larger restaurants in our larger cities," Arutunov said.
He said he would be taking back many souvenirs that were typical of the American culture. His mementos include several ornaments and illustrated science books.
"I have bought jeans for my daughter which are of a specific cut with the leather trim which I'm sure she'll be happy having," Arutinou said.
Oil companies earn unsatisfactory marks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy Secretary James Schlesinger said Sunday that although the oil companies' behavior is unsatisfactory, he does not think it appropriate to use the threat of divestiture as a club.
The general tenor of the oil industry is wholly unsatisfactory," Schlesinger said, echoing President Carter's accusations last year that the oil industry had a roadblock to effective energy legislation.
But as to "singing divesurese as a club",
Seenanger said, "I do not think that is approachable."
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