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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 24, 1962
Chancellor Describes Foreign Student Boom
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told International Club members Friday night that foreign student enrollment here is at an all time high.
He said 340 foreign students represent 60 nations on the KU campus, and the faculty includes 50 members from overseas.
The chancellor said KU was among the first universities to grant in-state status to students as soon as they arrive on the campus. Foreign students pay the same tuition as native Kansans.
Chancellor Wescoe said the International Club was the campus organization where American and foreign students can "rub shoulders." "The club is an institution where we can work toward an understanding between peoples," he said. "It provides an opportunity for American and foreign students to become welded in friendship."
Turning to a discussion of the college's foreign studies program, Wescoe explained that the country's expanding international interest forced KU to concentrate its foreign program on three specific areas. The areas are Latin America, East Asia and the Soviet-Slavic areas.
Besides maintaining courses in these three areas, KU also sponsors a student exchange program with Costa Rica and a medical student exchange program with the Philippines.
Chancellor Wescoe said the faculty exchange program also aids in keeping the campus in step with changes in other areas of the world. He pointed out that KU was a charter member of the American University Field Staff, a group of a dozen universities who send faculty members abroad. They send back reports and return to the campus to lecture in the classroom on their experiences.
Atty. Gen. Hits Student Plan
Kansas Atty. Gen. William Ferguson has ruled out an ASC-approved student body insurance program Jerry Dickson, student body president said yesterday.
Dickson said Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told him Ferguson made the ruling on the grounds that the student body here has no legal right to make contracts with profit-making organizations.
There is a difference between the life insurance program and the Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurance program now in effect at the University.
THE LIFE INSURANCE program involves a profit-making company while the Blue Cross-Blue Shield is a non-profit association of hospitals across the country. While the ASC approves the health insurance rate structure the actual contract is with the University.
"If there is an acceptable legal means of undertaking a program that has student support, other
It is questionable whether a nonprofit, public school can allow a profit-making company to establish a life insurance program. "It would open up too many avenues," Dickson said.
alternatives will be considered." Dickson said.
"AT THE MOMENT, the alternatives do not look too favorable," he added.
Last spring, an ASC committee composed of Dean Salter, Garden City senior, Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., junior, Larry Borcherding, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Dickson met with Harold Goss, Kansas City, who represents an independent insurance agency.
The program was presented by a representative of the Benjamin Franklin Insurance Co. which established a similar program at the University of Rhode Island.
The life insurance could be sold at a reduced rate because of group participation. The company said it would require 600 students before it could undertake such a program.
THE COMMITTEE FELT that a service to the student body could be rendered by undertaking the program. Dickson commented.
The ASC passed the proposal with the provision that the program be established during the fall or spring semester.
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REPRESENTATIVES SAFFELS and Arthur were asked, "What would happen if KU and other state schools discontinued the practice of issuing complimentary tickets?" "Would it affect appropriations?"
He succeeds Donald S. Farner, dean of the Graduate School of Washington State University and a member of the KU Museum of Natural History and zoology faculty 10 years ago.
Mr. Mengel is an instructor in zoology at KU and research associate of the Museum of Natural History. As an artist he is supplying many of the illustrations for volumes on birds published by the Yale University Press.
Robert M. Mengel, bird illustrator and instructor of zoology, has been elected editor of "The Auk," official publication of the American Ornithologists' Union.
"Absolutely not," was the immediate reply of Arthur.
"Appropriations are measured entirely on the basis of their merits and the recommendations of the Board of Regents," he said.
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Saffels echoed the same thought
Sarreis echoed the same thought. Bubb said that a committee composed of Board of Regents members is studying the situation and will make recommendations to the Board.
"This is not something that can't be worked out," Bubb said.
Traditionally the KU Chancellor sends season tickets to Board of Regents members, state legislators and certain state officials who deal with the University. A.C. Lonborg, KU athletic director, sends an undisclosed number of tickets to the Chancellor, who presents them to interested officials.
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Soviets Halt Convoy Headed For Berlin
BERLIN — (UPI) — The Russians held up American troops bound for Berlin for more than an hour today by arguing over "processing procedures" at the Communist checkpoint on the western terminus of the superhighway through East Germany.
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The fourth convoy of 80 men in 26 Jeeps, however, was halted for 63 minutes outside the checkpoint at Marienborn "while a discussion took place between U.S. and Soviet officers over processing procedures," a U.S. Army announcement said.
Two convoyes were sent westward from Berlin today and two eastward from West Germany to Berlin along the 110-mile highway. Three were cleared without any difficulty at the Soviet checkpoints at both ends of the Helmstedt-Berlin road.
It was the second such Soviet harrassment since the U.S. Army began the exchange of two 1,500-strong battle groups between Berlin and West Germany last week. One of the first convoys was delayed for about three hours.
As usual, the announcement did not explain specifically what the dispute was about.
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Prior to the conference, Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science and conference director, called the Soviet Union "the most underdeveloped developed nation."
"RUSSIA IS THE second greatest industrial power in the world," he said. "Yet in agriculture, it's almost backward."
Lectures and comments will be comprised and edited for publication.
Participants is the conference, the first major conference to study Soviet agriculture here, agreed another meeting should be conducted next year.
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