University Daily Kansan
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Far-Off Pakistan Friendly Land, Ketzel Discovers
Once you make a friend in Pakistan, he will do anything for you and will expect you to do the same for him, a KU Fulbright lecturer said last night.
By Joanne Prim
Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science, was speaking to a meeting of the Muslim Club in the Kansas Union.
Prof. Ketzel and his family spent last year at the University of Peshawar in Pakistan while he taught history.
"A Pakistani student who spent last year in the United States insisted that I borrow his car during the three weeks before mine arrived," he said.
PROF. KETZEL TOLD the group of a particularly friendly Pakistani student.
"He turned his car over to me. When he wanted to use it, he came to my house to get it and returned it when he was through.
"He told me, 'An American without a car is worth zero.'
A CERTAIN CANDIDNESS is connected with this friendship. Prof. Ketzel said. The people of Pakistan do not hesitate to ask others for favors.
"For instance," Prof. Ketzel said, "a Pakistani will come up to you and say, 'I want to go to town. Will you take me in?'
"In the United States, we would shy away from this type of person, but not in Pakistan. If you want something, you ask for it."
During his informal talk, which he called a "Pakistani Poturpri," Fref. Ketzel told of experiences which he said comprised his "most" list.
"MY MOST SATISFYING experience was the relationship with the students.
"They spoke poor English and at first, they were hesitant to be friends, but little by little their reserve was broken down.
"Between classes, I noticed that the students all went out and smoked the 'hooka', a community pipe. One day I asked a student if I might smoke the hooka. He was rather surprised.
"The next day he told me someone had said that such action was not respectable for a teacher, so we smoked the pipe behind the building after that.
"THE PAKISTANI STUDENTS got into the habit of dropping by my house—never saying when. They came sometimes when we were ready to go out for the evening, but we learned just to sit with them until they wanted to go home."
Prof. Ketzel said the greatest compliment he ever received was to be taken as a native when he was dressed in the native costume, a "gamez shalwar."
"People would come up to me and start rattling in Fushtu (the language of Pakistan)," he said.
Prof. Ketzel would then explain that he did not speak the language and that he was an American. This was usually followed by an invitation home to tea.
"Some days I drank 20 cups of tea," he said.
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