On-the-SpotExperienceAwaits KU and CU Russian Students
How do you teach a Kansas student to speak Russian like a native?
It isn't easy.
Some American university students go to Russia, where they meet a cool reception. They find themselves either restricted to American groups or else shunted about by guides on "official" tours.
Another method is to stay in the United States and study Russian on the college campus. Some students of Russian do this by living in the same house and pledging to speak nothing but Russian.
By an accident of history, the Finnish town of Järvenpää has become a center for Russian-speaking people. Some 600 refugees from areas close to the Soviet border fled there when Russia occupied southeastern Finland in 1940 and again in 1944. The Russian-speaking community has grown since then.
That's why the University of Kansas and University of Colorado have been given $67,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to start a Russian study program—in Finland.
BUT THESE studies don't provide close contact with Russian people, with their culture, with their everyday life. Except in the latter case, students aren't forced into constant use of the complex Russian language.
Järvenpää is the home of the famous Finnish composer, the late Jean Sibelius. This is where the young Americans will study this summer.
THE COLORADO-Kansas cooperative program is open to students throughout the nation, but a majority of the first group of 40 are expected to be from these two states.
Each day while they are in Järvenpää, they will attend two hours of class and two hours of language drill, plus three lecture-discussion sessions each week on Russian history and culture.
The lectures, by some of Finland's best Russian-study specialists, will expose the students to
information not readily available on U.S. campuses
Studies will be supplemented by attending cultural events in Helsinki, the Finnish capital, by tours of Finland, and two trips to Russia.
The first of these visits into the Soviet Union will be a 3-day bus tour to Leningrad, probably in early July. The second will be a more extended tour to Moscow, Novgorad, Klin, Rostov-Suzdal, and Vladimir-Suzdal and will come at the end of the Järvenpää stay.
TO HOUSE THE students in Järvenpää, a dormitory belonging to the Orthodox Church of Finland has been offered by the church's local manager, Alexei Koponen. In subsequent years, it is planned to house students in the homes of Russian-speaking residents.
Students chosen for the program in Finland must have superior academic records and must be recommended by their instructors. More than 50 students here have asked to be considered. Intermediate students will be required to have completed 12 semester hours and advanced students 18 hours of Russian.
The KU-CU cooperative program is an extension of the two schools' well-developed Russian and Slavic area studies. In a related program announced earlier this month, Kansas students and instructors will go to CU this summer to study and teach Russian and Polish, while Colorado students and faculty come to KU to participate in Chinese-Japanese language studies.
KU also has summer student programs in Germany, Spain and France, and will charter an airliner this summer to transport the Europe-bound students.
There has been a steady growth of student interest in Russian in Kansas and Colorado, officials say. At KU, enrollment has shot up from 37 Russian language students in 1957-58 to 207 this semester.
Smaller Red Battalion Defeats Vietnamese
SAIGON, Viet Nam— (UPI) Communist guerrillas killed 65 government troops and wounded 100 others at nearby Ap Bac, a government spokesman said today.
The spokesman said the casualties for the furious two-day battle were the highest for a single action since a paratroop battalion suffered about 200 dead in a guerrilla ambush in November, 1961.
THE GOVERNMENT defeat was all the more humiliating because a 200-man Communist Viet Cong battalion at Ap Bac managed to escape into the jungles after holding the hamlet in daylong fighting against a government force 10 times as big and supported by planes, artillery and armor.
Informed sources said it appeared the U.S. military mission and the South Vietnamese government would have to revise military strategy in the light of lessons learned in the costly battle.
While the sources believed the basic tactic of using helicopters for troop transport would be continued, they said new methods must be found to suppress the Viet Cong groundfire if losses are to be kept at a minimum. They said helicopters are needed to move troops in close to Red positions.
THREE AMERICANS were killed and four others were wounded in the fighting, most of them when the Viet Cong shot down five American-manned helicopters and damaged six others.
The government spokesman put Viet Cong dead at 101, but American military advisers at the scene regarded the figure as too high.
Some advisers found only three guerrilla bodies in a visit to Ap Bac, just 30 miles from Saigon, shortly after the Viet Cong fled, taking their wounded and most of their dead with them.
ONE GOVERNMENT report said the Viet Cong force was seen fleeing with 60 wounded in 10 sampans. But American helicopter pilots said the guerrillas in the sampans did not appear to be wounded.
The pilots said they called for an air strike against the fleeing boats, but the guerrillas managed to disappear before the planes arrived.
Friday, Jan. 4, 1963 University Daily Kansan Pag
The battle began early Wednesday after a band of Viet Cong was reported moving along the Thap Muoi Canal which wanders through the swamplands and rice paddies in the jungles.
The communist stand at the hamlet apparently caught government forces by surprise. The Reds have concentrated on hit-and-run attacks and rarely have engaged government troops in pitched battle.
Government troops moved in to engage the guerrillas, but met stiff resistance. They threw artillery barrages, air attacks and machine gun fire at the entrenched Reds, but the guerrillas managed to hold out and eventually slip through an uncovered flank into the bush.
The seventh annual KU Science and Mathematics Camp will be different this summer.
During the six-week camp, 100 10th and 11th grade students will have a two-week introduction to eight areas of science. They will then concentrate for four weeks in two science areas of their choice.
KU Will Alter Math Camp
The previous summer programs were short surveys, two or three weeks in length, of seven or eight sciences.
THIS YEAR'S campers will choose from mathematics, physics, physiology, chemistry, geology, bacteriology, psychology, and sociology. A $24,995 National Science Foun-
"Any 12th graders here—perhaps as many as 20—will have research apprenticeships. This is a continuing phase of the camp," he said.
Arnold A. Strassenburg, associate professor of physics, will be camp director. He explained a second phase of the camp yesterday.
A $24,995 National Science Foundation grant will support the camp
They will be able to conduct research and study under the personal supervision of senior members of the KU faculty.
"THE RESEARCH assistants came here last year as part of the 100," Prof. Strassenburg said.
Past science and mathematics camps have attracted high school students from all over the United States. Nearly one-half have been Kansans. Prof. Strassenburg said many of the campers return to KU as regularly enrolled students, but he had no statistics.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Scientists who coaxed the ailing Telstar back on the air plan today to resume live transatlantic telecasts.
The space broadcasters were hopeful that not only one, but two orbiting television transmitters may soon be in operation — Telstar, the pioneer which worked successfully for four months before going silent, and Relay, born speechless last month but now beeping for the first time.
For the premiere of Telstar's second season, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company tentatively planned to transmit a live program from an AT&T auditorium here and from the main ground transmitter at Andover, Maine.
An AT&T spokesman said Telstar's orbit, over the northeast tip of South America and Spain, will place the satellite in position for transatlantic contact for only 10 minutes. By mid-February the transmission time available will lengthen to about an hour, as Telstar moves back into the northern hemisphere.
When the 172-pound Relay was sent into orbit, a still unexplained failure in the power supply kept it mute. But yesterday Relay answered to signals from transmitters at Andover and Nutley, N.J. A television test pattern was bounced off the space station.
Immediately after the U.S. telecast, Britain and France will beam programs of their own through the tiny satellite, which had remained silent for five weeks because of radiation damage.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will attempt to learn today whether Reel, launched by NASA Dec. 13, can retain enough voltage to keep in touch with earth.
The U.S.-to-Europe program was scheduled to be a "repeat," with technical experts going before the cameras to discuss the project's development. A similar program marked Telstar's debut after it was launched last July.
Today's Telstar programs, if successful, will be recorded on video
Lingua Latina Non Defuncta Est
A workshop for Latin teachers from all parts of the country will be conducted at KU this summer under a $10,000 grant from the Old Dominion Foundation of New York.
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Leading educators in the classes will instruct courses on Roman civilization, Latin authors and Latin teachings. Dr. Austin Lashbrook associate professor of classics, will direct the July 11-Aug 7 institute.
Fifty scholarships are provided by the grant for high school and college teachers. Another 30 or 40 persons are expected to attend without scholarship aid.
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Neither AT&T nor NASA technicians ventured any predictions on how long Telstar and Relay would continue to operate.
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Needed: A 'Distinctive' Alarm CONCORD, N. H. — (UPI) State Civil Defense Director Ma] Gen. Francis McSwiney said yesterday an adequate local civil defense warning needs a "distinctive tone."
He said one town was thrown into near panic recently when a fire alarm struck and residents thought it was an air raid alert.
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