African Student Tells Problems
A KU freshman from Africa gave last night that the African student coming here for the first time runs into several problems—segregation, finances, examinations and unfriendiness.
Page 3
Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika, talked to 25 members of Wesley Foundation. His speech was part of an effort of the Foundation to raise money for World Board of Mission's scholarships to African students.
He said one of the difficult situations he meets here is that the African student is admitted in some societies that the American Negro is not.
DISCUSSING THE unfriendliness, Egoya said the time element is pushed so much here with everyone rushing from one place to another that the foreign student often thinks people are unfriendly.
"I think it's a misconception though" he added.
He added that the problem arises because of "stupid people who are not educated, although they may know what's in books. They're medieval."
HE SAID FINANCES of the African student are often acute because the people at home do not realize the wide disparity between the value of the dollar in America and the much higher value in Africa.
Bgoya also touched upon the two universal problems of students—finances and examinations.
He said examinations here have caused him trouble because he had thought they would require long, detailed answers instead of trucefalse and multiple choice.
"I know of one student who was allocated $167 two semesters (for a school in the United States)," he said.
Bgoya told the Foundation about severe dropping of students in African grade and high schools. He said the practice resulted in many excellent students not getting a full education.
CPA Exam Review Offered at KU
An intensive Certified Public Accountant Examination Review course of 14 sessions will be given beginning February 10 for persons qualified to sit for the May CPA examination.
The course will be taught by Sherwood W. Newton, associate professor of Business, who originated the review sessions in 1960.
The sessions will be from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturdays from Feb. 10 to March 24 for the law review and from March 31 to May 12 for the auditing review. All sessions will be held in 405 Summerfield Hall.
The review is sponsored by University Extension in conjunction with the Kansas Society of Certified Public Accountants. The CPA examination will be held May 16, 17 and 18.
Samson Heads Dept.
Frederick E. Samson, associate professor of physiology, will become chairman of the new department of comparative biochemistry and physiology.
The appointment becomes effective July 1 when the department is organized following transfer of some members of the anatomy, biochemistry and physiology departments to the Kansas City campus of the School of Medicine.
Prof. Samson took both undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Chicago and has been at KU since 1952. He has been active in research programs and now is coordinator of National Science Foundation research grants to undergraduates in the gifted student program of the college.
AAAS Post to Anderson
Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the School of Education, has been elected vice president and chairman of the education section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Each of the AAAS's 15 sections elects a vice president and chairman for one year.
University Daily Kansan
McKinney Attends Health Study Section
Ross E. McKinney, professor of civil engineering and director of the Environmental Health Research Laboratory at KU is attending a study section meeting of the National Institutes of Health through tomorrow at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Ga.
The meeting is of the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Study Section, to which Prof. McKinney was recently appointed. The section reviews all research grant applications to the federal agency related to water pollution, air pollution, radiological health and general environmental health. Current expenditures for federal support of research in the environmental health field exceed $4 million a year.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Four Student Soloists Sing In "Te Deums"
Four KU students were featured soloists in a presentation Sunday of "Te Deum" by Anton Bruckner and "Te Deum" by Giuseppe Verdi.
In the Bruckner "Te Deum," which is divided into five sections with alternating solo and choral passages, Mary Lou Powell, Topeka graduate; Edward Sooter, Wichita graduate; Donald Grant, Kansas City sophomore, and Sharon Tebenkamp, Salisbury, Mo., junior, were featured soloists.
Miss Powell was also soloist in the Verdi "Te Deum." The chorus was accompanied by Richard Gayhart, instructor of organ and theory.
If the world was to learn the truth about academic incompetence children would be kept at home—John Walnut
Most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator. —G. K. Chesterton
Official Bulletin
Catholic Daily Mass: 6:30 & 8 a.m. St John's Church, 13th & Kentucky.
French Phi D. Reading Exam: Jan 13,
ga-ta-cra-ge been handed to in Moss Craig by Jan 10.
Western Civilization Comprehensive Examination: Review Sessions: Jan. 9, 10 from 7:15-9:30 p.m. Bailey Auditorium. Jan. 13 at 1 a.m. rooms to be assigned.
TODAY
Foreign Students: 4 p.m., Forum Room, Kansas Union, Mr. Marvin Grimm of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will speak to you on your responsibilities in filing concerns concerning taxes, please be present unless there is a class conflict.
KU Dames; 8 p.m., Watkins Room, Kansas Union. Dr. R. L. Hermes will speak on childbirth. Membership cards will be checked.
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Episcopal Holy Communion and Breakfast
Celtic Cross: 12 noon. Westminster Center,
1204 Oread. The study of worship.
Kansas Union. Balances due for trip.
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
WEDNESDAY
Student National Education Association: 4 p.m., 302 Bailey. Panel discussion: "Student Teachers" with Dr. Karl Edwards.
Celtic Cross 12 noon, Westminster Cen-
tury, Westminster Center
Centrum, 5:30 p.m.
Le Cerule Francais célébre la Fête des Rois par un diner mercredel le 10 janvier a six heures et quart dans le Curry à la salle du café des deserts desrient y assister doivent s'inscrire, et payer au bureau du departement avant mardi soir.
Civil Service Test Announced
Kansas civil service examinations are being given for Histological Technology.
Examinations will be held in Chanute, Hays, Salina, and Wichita in February.
Further information and application forms may be obtained from the State Personnel Division, 801 Harrison St., Topeka.
AUTOMATIC LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
ОДНОГО ПОЛЯ ЯГОДА
From the same
field
the berry
C'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet It is hat white and white hat
Six of one half a dozen of the other
If computers process data in mathematical terms, how can they be instructed to handle information and applications that are not essentially arithmetic? IBM, in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force, is finding some answers through research in automatic language translation systems.
Machine translation of idioms, for example, is teaching us a great deal about information processing. An idiomatic phrase may have a meaning quite different from the sum of its individual words, and a system that merely matches these words won't come close to translating it. One solution is an "expanded electronic dictionary" that contains idioms and grammatical instructions as well as single words. Work is now under way to clarify meaning further by automatic syntactical analysis.
Systems research such as this requires its own kind
of translation—the translation of an idea into a working system. For people with this ability, who like to travel beyond the boundaries of their specialized areas, IBM offers unusual opportunity. If you're interested in any of the fields in which IBM is making important advances—semiconductors, microwaves, magnetics superconductivity—and your major is in engineering or one of the sciences, you are invited to talk with the IBM representative. He will be interviewing on your campus this year. Your placement office can make an appointment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color or national origin. Write, outlining your background and interests, to: Mgr. of Technical Employment, Dept. 898, IBM Corporation, 590 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
You naturally have a better chance to grow with a dynamic growth company
IBM
IBM will interview Feb. 7,8.