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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, October 18, 1961
Visitor Here Sees Little Peace Corps Interest
Rv Dennis Farnev
A Peace Corps representative who was here Monday and Tuesday encountered little interest for the program among KU students.
Only eight students inquired about the Peace Corps while field representative Frank Kiehn was at the Kansas Union yesterday.
Mr. Kiehne addressed 12 more, all leaders of KU student organizations at a luncheon Monday.
He is currently explaining the Peace Corps program on a tour of Midwest colleges and universities.
"A lot of enthusiasm and motivation was shown by those students who came to see me," said Mr. Kiehne. "But frankly, the overall performance was disappointing."
He said the KU turnout compared unfavorably with that of other schools on the tour.
"About 400 students showed up at St. Louis University, a school of about 8,000," he said. "And 90 per cent of the graduating dentistry class at the University of Kansas City attended a speech I presented there."
Both schools gave his visit more advance publicity than did KU, he said.
AT A MEETING with faculty and staff members yesterday, Mr. Kiehne outlined the five steps taken by all
Heider Gets Three Psychology Grants
Fritz Heider, authority in the psychology of interpersonal relations, has received a one-year grant of $9.271 from the United States Public Health Service for his studies here on "general and individual schemes in social perception."
The professor of psychology also has been granted $9,271 for each of two additional years of study, bringing total Public Health Service support to $27,813. Dr. Grace M. Heider, wife of Professor Heider, will be co-investigator on the project.
"The study has to do with the way we judge the actions of other persons," Dr. Heider said. Through a series of experiments, he hopes to find general principles of the reaction of persons to certain situations on interpersonal relations.
He is the 1951 recipient of the Kurt Kewin Memorial Award for his work in the development and integration of psychological research and social action.
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.—Lucan
Peace Corps volunteers. Only eight attended the meeting
- Application for entrance tests.
- The five steps are:
- Taking and passing the tests.
- An & week training course at
- An 8-week training course at a United States college or university.
- Further training in the host country, if necessary.
- Student groups represented at Monday's luncheon included the All Student Council, the Associated Women Students and Vox Populi.
- Actual field work within the host country.
The ASC Peace Corps committee, which did not know about Mr. Kiehne's visit until Monday, will meet Thursday to consider means of explaining the program to the student body, said Nancy Lane, Hoisington sophomore and member of the committee.
Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity will hold a rush dinner for all prospective business school and economic students at the Dine-A-Mite at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Alpha Kappa Psi To Hold Dinner
Alpha Kappa Psi was founded at New York University in 1904. The Psi Chapter at the University of Kansas was installed in 1920 and its membership includes students and faculty of the School of Business and Economics. The organization is designed to teach young men the principles and techniques of business and economics.
Last year, Alpha Kappa Psi selected Gov. John Anderson as its Honorary Initiate.
Wiley Mitchell, associate dean of the Business School, will be the guest speaker tomorrow.
Any prospective business and economic students interested in joining Alpha Kappa Psi are invited to attend the dinner.
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.—Eleanor Roosevelt
Conboy to Be Speaker
Dr. William Conboy, professor of speech, will be a principal speaker at the second annual Kansas Recreation Conference to be held here Monday, Nov. 20.
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Physics Picnic Saturday
The fall picnic of Sigma Pi Sigma, physics honorary society, will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Potter Lake.
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