Lecturer Raps Culture Alienation In America
At the present time, few people qualify to occupy chairs in American studies. There are 13 in Germany (11 in literature, one in history, and one in culture).
The director of the American Institute at the University of Munich, Germany, F. G. Friedmann, discussed differences between American and German universities, yesterday during a private interview.
"There are very few associate professors," Prof. Friedmann said. "There are two or three instructors, research personnel, and a secretary in each department.
"Students can work toward two goals. About 90 or 95 per cent of them take a state examination after a minimum of eight semesters. If they pass, they get state employment as teachers.
"Instructors in German universities are free to teach courses of their own choosing. There is no set curriculum. Each professor does what he feels is competent in his own field."
The self-governing teaching staff elects the president and deans. Each faculty (similar to a school) chooses its own dean, or chairman of the faculty, who performs administrative duties for a one-year term.
"In Germany, an institute is built around a professor. There is only one full professor in each institute (also known as a seminar and comparable to a department).
Courses Prof. Friedmann teaches include a Thoreau seminar and a class on the impact of Puritanism on American civilization.
Prof. Friedmann is a member of the philosophy faculty, which roughly corresponds to liberal arts.
"Each seminar has its own library. In the American Institute, we have 16,000 books and a microfilm collection.
"The other small percentage works toward the Ph.D. degree.
"American students spend two or three years in college doing what German students finish in high school. It is much tougher over there."
Upon completion of high school, graduates may take an examination given by the state. If they pass it, they are entitled to enter any German college. German youth start college at age 20.
Around 21,000 are enrolled at the University of Munich.
A naturalized American citizen
KU 'Brains' Rate From 2.489 GPA
To rank in the upper 10% of the senior class in the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, you should set your sights for a grade-point average no lower than 24890. That's the average of student No. 53 on the descending ladder.
Heading the top 10% is Allan W. Wicker, Independence senior, whose grade-point average is 2.9259 for work done at KU since he transferred from Independence Community College.
This is based on a system that gives 3 points for each credit hour of A grade, 2 for a B, and on to a -1 for an F.
CLOSE BEHIND at 2.9130 is Gail Eberhardt, Wichita senior. The two were named co-winners of the Dean Paul B. Lawson award to the ranking liberal arts senior. Miss Eberhardt has been at KU three years studying for a triple major in English, history and French.
Eight students follow with averaces of 28 or more.
Among the top 10% are 30 men and 23 women, giving the coeds a much better showing than their proportion of the KU student body.
Although 50 or more students in the College may make all A grades in any one semester, the all-A graduating senior is a rarity. Only three persons have left KU with all-A transcripts in the last 16 years.
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Prof. Friedmann is chairman of the committee which deals with foreign relations of the University and supervises foreign study of German students from the University of Munich.
He is an adviser to an organization which awards the top German scholarships. They are similar to the Woodrow Wilson fellowships.
Prof. Friedmann studied at universities in Rome and Munich. He taught philosophy at Lambuth College from 1940 to 1943 and at the University of Arkansas from 1946 to 1959. Since 1960, he has been director of the American Institute at Munich. He has received Rockefeller and Fulbright grants to study the philosophy of peasants in Italy. The author of "The Hoe and the Book." Prof. Friedmann has written articles and essays in U.S., Italian, German, and Mexican journals.
Richard P. Goldthwait, professor of geology at Ohio State University, will give a public Sigma Xi lecture tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in 411 Summerfield Hall at KU.
Prof. Goldthwait will discuss "Glacier Fluctuations Since the Ice Age in Southeast Alaska."
Prof. Goldthwait to Give Sigma Xi Geology Lecture
The speaker is filling 18 lecture engagements for Sigma Xi, national honorary research society, in the Midwest and Northwest.
International Students: Those students who plan to go to Chanute for the October 26th UNESCO banquet should sign up in Dr. Coan's office this week.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Radio Production Center, 7:30 p.m.
Rm. 220 Flint, executive comm. meeting
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Le Carte Francais se réunirà mercédé à 16 heures 30 dans la salle onze de Fraser. M. Gaultpeau fera une causerie; Quelques mots sur la chanson francisée contemplaine." Tous ceux qui d'intérêt en français sont cordialement invités.
Fulbright program deadline application grant for 1963-64 should be turned in to the Fulbright adviser, 206 Fraser. Forms are still available at Bait office.
The Muslim Society will hold its first
party p.m. in Room 306 of the Kaisa
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TOMORROW
United Presbyterian Men, Westminster Center. 1200 Eadden, 7 p.m., Dr. Stroth-
Der Deutsche Stammtsmitt trifft sich Donnerstag den 18. Oktober, um 5 Uhr.
Student Union Cafeteria. Alle sind herzlich eingeladen.
A noted publisher in Chicago reports there is a simple technique for acquiring a powerful memory which can pay you real dividends in both business and social advancement and works like magic to give you added poise, necessary self-confidence and greater popularity.
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Ben Bella Gets The Red Carpet
HAVANA — (UPI) — Premier Ahmed Ben Bella planned to leave Cuba today (1:30 p.m., Lawrence time) after a whirlwind state visit in which he embraced Fidel Castro twice, told him he was going to get Algeria's Medal of Honor and pledged full support of the Cuban Revolution.
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1962 University Daily Kansan Page 5
Last night, Ben Bella was the guest of honor at a "family supper" tendered him in the presidential palace by Castro and President and Mrs. Osvaldo Dorticos. Only a handful of "outsiders" attended, including Capt. Emilio Aragones, who commands Castro's militia forces. Also present was Cuban State Minister Raul Roa.
The government-controlled press devoted much space to the Algerian nationalist's visit and a tour of the city he carried out shortly after his arrival. An Algerian deputy, Fatima Mechini, who accompanied Ben Bella, was honored by the Cuban Women's Federation.
The Arab neutralist got Cuba's biggest welcome ever extended a foreign visitor on his arrival yesterday, just 24 hours after being a guest of President Kennedy at the White House. Castro took advantage of the occasion to lash out at the United States in the bittertest terms he has yet employed against "imperialism."
Curtis Besinger, associate professor of architecture and architectural consultant for House Beautiful magazine, is the author of two articles in recent issues.
Although there was no official agenda for Ben Bella's visit, the Algerian was expected to go through with the customary formality of laying a wreath at the Jose Marti statue in Central Park and to visit Arab war orphans in their suburban orphanage.
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