Tuesday, October 3,1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
9
Yugoslav drama pleases KU co-ed
Betty Jean "BJ" Myers, Prairie Village senior, is back at KU after spending last year working and studying in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
Miss Myers worked at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts and with the Croation National Theater in Zagreb. She had a scholarship from the Zagreb Academy given through the government of Yugoslavia, and a travel grant from KU.
Besides studying, Miss Myers designed costumes for a production of the "Homecoming," by Harold Pinter; sets for a children's theater production and masks for a third show.
"I wasn't really enrolled in the American sense of the word," she said, "but no one is. Each person carries around a small book. The teacher signs it at the end of the term, stating whether the student passed or failed. When the student and his teachers feel he is ready to take the school's exam for graduation, he signs up for it."
BJ said she was glad she went and would recommend it to anyone, but she also ran into many problems.
"I had trouble getting used to their attitude that tomorrow was soon enough to get anything done."
She lived several different places, in an effort to find a place she could afford in the face of the government's tightening of its monetary system.
But she quickly adds that someone else might not encounter the same problems.
"And Yugoslavia is about the only country where a theater student can be a student and work as a professional at the same time. This I liked very much."
Waggoner receives $15,000
A $15,000 grant has been awarded to George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at KU.
The grant, by the U.S. Office of Education, will be used by Waggoner to prepare a monograph on the educational systems of six Central American countries.
Waggoner plans to complete the study for the Bureau of Research
of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare by December 1968.
The monograph will survey educational and related social movements in elementary, secondary and university-level schools. It will focus upon the cooperation among the nations in educational problems.
Students to attend Baha'i meeting
Four KU students will attend the Baha'i World Faith Conference in Wilmette, Ill., Oct. 5-8.
U. S. who will attend the conference.
Martin Schirn, Mission senior,
Farzein Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran,
sophomore, Merna Ewart, Chicago.
Ill., junior, and Vera Varner,
Atlanta, Ga., sophomore, from the
KU Baha'i chapter will be among the
2,500 representatives from the
Similar inter-continental conferences will meet in Kampala, Uganda; Frankfort, Germany; Sydney, Australia; and Panama City, Panama.
Bishop Pike will be a speaker at the convention, Miss Varner said.
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A home near the equator, primitive natives for neighbors and rain everyday were all part of the linguistics research program resumed last summer by Frances Ingemann, chairman of the department of linguistics.
"There are hundreds of different language groups in New Guinea," Miss Ingemann said, "and no one had ever studied the Ipilipaiyala language before."
During her research studies, Miss Ingemann collected samples of the language using a tape recorder, transcribed the samples into phonetics and analyzed the results.
Doing research on the language of the Ipili-paiyala people, Miss Ingemann spent the summer working in the highlands of the U.N. Trust Territory of New Guinea. She also did research in this area during the academic year of 1964-65 and the summer of 1966.
"The language has a great number of verb forms, and there is no correlation to English or European languages," Miss Ingemann said.
New Guinea phonetics analyzed
Miss Ingemann said the highland natives had never had extensive contact with the government or missionaries until 1961.
"The people are generally subsistence farmers," Miss Ingemann said, "and earn some money working for the Europeans in the area, selling crops and panning gold in nearby rivers and streams."
Although she learned to speak
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some Ipill-paiyala, a great deal of Miss Ingemann's communication was in Pidgin, a compromise between English and area languages. "The vocabulary is often English, but the words are given another meaning," Miss Ingemann said.
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Pidgin is one of the three official languages of the legislative assembly. "It is a language used for communication by people who do not have a common language," she explained.
One of the most impressive events during her summer stay was the Mount Hagen Show, which takes place every two years. The people from all the highland districts come to Mount Hagen in their ceremonial dress and give exhibitions of native dances.
The event, drawing more than 50,000 natives, is an education for the New Guineans as well as visitors. "The government wants the different tribes to get to know
and understand each other," Miss Ingemann said.
While in New Guinea, she also collected artifacts for KU's department of anthropology.
"It is not designed as an art collection," Miss Ingemann said, "but a collection of things the people use in their daily lives." The collection includes bows, arrows, smoking pipes and articles of dress.
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