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Foreigners Interested in P-T-P; Offer Advice and Criticism
By Arthur Miller
(Editor's note: This is the last of a three part series on the People-to-People program at KU.)
It was 7 o'clock last night.
Several foreign students were gathered at a table in the Hawk's Nest of the Kansas Union.
INTEREST SHOWN—Foreign students show interest in People-to-People plans. Left to right are Jalal Razzak, Baghdad, Iraq; Inga Safholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Raja Naib, Jhelum, Pakistan; and Vinay Kothari, Bombay, India.
It was quiet, except for the mumble of the people talking.
As he started to answer the jukie box came to life pounding out its deafening beat.
One of the foreign students was asked what he thought of the People-to-People program.
Jalal Razzak, Baghdad, Iraq, spoke louder, "Visiting Lawrence families is really the way to learn about America. Any international student can go to classes but this is not learning the American way."
"People-to-People is doing a fine job," he continued, "but there are still some foreign students who don't know what the organization is."
Raja Naib, Jhelum, Pakistan, replied. "There is a coordinating committee working between People-to-People and the International Club. Still there is a need for more information about the program."
Naib interjected, "It is these personal contacts that impress me more than anything else. Herein lies the real basis of the People-to-People program, for personal contact becomes friendship and that is something you don't easily forget.
Still fighting the music Razzak added. "Yes there should be more cooperation. There should be more personal contact and not just at the International Club."
"Lately, however, there has been too much impersonal and mechanical contact" he said.
Inga Safhelm, Stockholm, Sweden, said. "One thing that few people mention about People-to-People is that we get to know a lot of foreign students as well as American students."
"One thing that bothers me," Vinay Kotheri, Bombay, India, said, "is that some of the international students have not been given an American brother or sister. They feel kind of left out."
nath interrupted to explain that the organization is extremely young and cannot be expected to function perfectly. All of the students agreed.
He said, "My brother is also at KU and he doesn't have an American brother. I know two girls who also don't have American sisters."
Razzak commented, "I have been here three years and I tell you its much different now than when I arrived at KU."
"Another thing," Kothari said, "Last year there was only one industrial tour. Since I am in engineering these trips interest me very much, and there are many more this year."
Turning to another subject, Naib remarked. "What we need is a lot of publicity on foreign students. We should write to the international student magazines such as 'Institute of International Education Bulletin' and 'The Asian Student.'
"I'm writing an article on People-to-People now and will send it to The Asian Student." he added.
Are foreign students interested in what People-to-People is doing?
The students met, spoke frankly,
and left.
Friday. October 27. 1961 University Daily Kansan
Definitely so, and they are not content with just appreciating what American students are doing. They are seriously concerned and want to offer suggestions on how to improve the program.
But what are the American students doing and what is the nature of the People-to-People program?
The nature of the organization can best be seen in the six operating committees of the program. They are:
- Public Relations Committee - It has three responsibilities; informing the university students of opportunities in the P-T-P and promoting the organization to attract outside interest and assistance; the release of all publications which may be desired by the various committees of P-T-P; and coordinating the correspondence and inter-committee communication.
- Forum Group Committee — It is to further closer international
understanding on both world situations and problems, and on local social and cultural activities.
- Job Placement Committee — It is responsible for procuring employment for international students and assisting them in the satisfactory execution of their work.
- $\textcircled{1}$ Brother-Sister Committee — It has the job of assigning American students to act as hosts and hostesses to the foreign student during his stay in America.
- American Student Abroad Committee — There are two main purposes of this committee. The first is to keep in contact with former foreign students who have returned to their native lands, and inform them as to what strides are being made on the KU campus in the field of international relations.
The second purpose is to prepare the American student who plans to travel abroad in such a way that he might create the least friction possible in his relations with those with whom he comes in contact.
Music Teachers To Hear KU Choir
The KU Concert Choir will sing for the Kansas Music Teachers' Association Convention at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, in Murphy Hall.
The program, directed by Professor Clayton Krehbiel, will be the "Ode to St. Cecelia" by Norman Dello Joio and the Motet No. 5 "Singet dem Herrn" by Bach. The Dello Joio work is a setting of the Dryden poem and was commissioned from the composer by the Concert Choir in 1958.
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This, then, is the People-to-People program from an idea to its present existence. This is the story in words, but words cannot express the feeling of friendship and understanding between American and foreign students.
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