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Monday, Nov. 20, 1961 University Daily Kansan
Summer Institute Called Worthwhile
Two students who participated in the Summer Language Institute and the Institute director said Sunday the institute was a worthwhile program.
"We probably learned as much conversational language in one summer as we could have learned in three years at home," Latta said.
J. A. BURZLE, professor of German and director of the institute, spoke before 50 members of the Faculty Club. Appearing with him were Alan Latta, Wichita senior, and Breon Mitchell, Salina sophomore.
THE SPEAKERS MENTIONED several misconceptions about the United States by the native students.
They sail it was worthwhile because the participating students learned the language and culture of the countries better and because many misconceptions about the United States were cleared up.
"The program was successful in every way—academically, culturally, and in helping us understand the students better." Mitchell said.
"They thought all American students were rich" he said.
"Many German students thought of the United States as skyscrapers in the East and Indians in the West," Mitchell said.
Prof. Burzle said the program was started because many of the exchange programs were little more than "tourist's adventures." The high cost of other programs was another factor which led to the KU program, he said.
Prof. Burzle said the native German instructors were impressed by the honor system used in the final examination.
"THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE we could leave students alone and they wouldn't cheat," he said.
The Summer Language Institute cost $725 per student, he said, and financial help was available to students who needed it. The scholarships were given principally by the Carnegie Foundation and the KU Endowment Association.
PROF. BURZLE SAID THE Summer Language Institute was set up with six requirements;
- It should be academic, with the "pleasure aspects" relegated to the background.
- Participants should have at
The Civil Rights Council has begun consideration of another area of what it feels is discrimination in University housing: discriminatory clauses in fraternities and sororities.
CRC to Study Greek Housing
No definite plans have been formulated by the group, but delegates from the CRC are going to attempt to talk to Chancellor W. Clarke Westcoe, Donald Seward, Stuart Jenkins and Paul Ingemanson, Toleda junior and head of the interfraternity council to discuss the problem.
"Since the University has taken a stand on off-campus housing. I think it should look at on-campus housing, of which fraternities and sororities are a part."
STEVE BARATZ. Lawrence graduate student and former chairman of the Council, said that:
He said that the University is unintentionally using a "double standard."
"IM SURE IT DOESN'T want to do this. I think that since we have a reputation for getting things done, we should let the fraternities know what we are going to do. It's their problem, they should get involved. I am confident that something will be done quickly if we acquaint the University of its ambiguous stand."
Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior
that sororities are the big problem.
"The fraternities are getting rid of discriminatory clauses much faster than sororites, per usual."
In other action last week the eight members at the meeting unanimously adopted a resolution to support the proposed World Crisis Dry.
least one year of language study.
- Academic requirements should be the same as at the home institution.
- The director should be a teacher at the home institution.
- Financial matters should be handled by the institution, rather than by the individual students.
- The academic requirements during the eight-week session were identical to the requirements for the second year of language study at KU. Prof. Burzle said.
- Participation should not depend on the students' financial resources.
TWENTY STUDENTS EACH in German, French and Spanish were selected to participate, he said. All took a course at KU last spring in the culture of the country in which they would study.
"On the whole, the Summer Language Institute was a worthwhile undertaking," Prof. Burzle said.
Prof. Burzle said the students attended classes approximately 25 hours per week. Weekends were left free for travel, he said.
"I hope it isn't the only time it will be done," he added. "I believe we can do it again, and involve even more students."
NEW YORK—(UPI) A major contradiction now further complicates the statistically-based theory that smoking, especially cigarette smoking, is "associated" with high blood levels of cholesterol.
Smoking-Cancer Thesis Contradicted
The contradiction is that in 221 men 65 to 85 years old, there was no such "association." In fact, there was a statistical possibility smoking meant lower cholesterol levels rather than higher.
THIS WAS PUZZLING to the two scientists involved because the smoking-high cholesterol "association" has been turned up statistically among men in widely separated places — the United States, Great Britain, Finland and South Africa.
The 221 old men were pensioners of a Dublin brewer. The scientists were Roy M. Acheson, a well-known English medical statistician, and Prof. W.J.E. Jessop of Trinity College, Dublin.
The previous studies were of men of middle age and younger. This led Acheson and Jessop to suggest the body handled fats like cholesterol differently in old age than in young-er years although the said the contradiction was "difficult to explain."
IN THEIR opinion, however, "there can be little question of the relationship" between blood fats and cigarette smoking in middle aged
men even though "in the present data based on old men there is no evidence whatsoever of such a relationship."
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Rather, their statistics "suggested" a higher blood fats level in the nonsmokers among the aged brewery pensioners than the smokers. Because of the complexity of the statistical measuring and its mathematical checks, they couldn't be more positive on this point.
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The importance of such studies is that high blood fats level, particularly cholesterol, are believed intimately involved in artery "hardening" and consequent heart attacks and "strokes." Acheson and Jespow pointed out that heart attacks usually are of a different nature in old men than in younger men.
THIS MEANT their supporting findings in old men were at least "compatible" with what is known about heart attacks in the old compared with the younger. Nevertheless, "it is not possible to give a reason" for the findings, "even less to explain the possibility of an inverse relationship," they said.
But "several theories suggest
themselves," they added. Since the men were pensioners, their means could have been so limited that in order to smoke it was necessary to eat less Their study did not measure this possibility.
It also could be that aging dulls the sense of taste even more than smoking which might lead aged smokers to eat less foods with high cholesterol content. A previous scientific study had suggested that heavy smokers are likely to have a high taste preference for the cholesterol-producing foods.
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