Thursday, Sept. 20, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Frenchman Has Own Ideas on KU Gals
Bv. Linda Machin
Women at the University of Kansas may think they are ultra-attractive and very feminine. But there is at least one young man here who disagrees.
He is 23-year-old Jean-Jaques Saurel, economics, political science and law student from Nice, France.
According to him, the women here don't look as feminine as the gals back home. "American girls don't try to dress for the men, Jean-Jaques complained. French girls try to dress so that men will look at them."
Speaking intently but with the ease and assurance of an accomplished linguist, he explained some differences in womanhood at KU and his Institut Detudes Politique de Paris.
"THE FIRST THING I noticed about the women at KU were their white sport shoes. I don't like them," he added good-naturedly. "French girls wear heels—even to classes."
"There is too much uniformity here," he said. "American girls all look alike. They all have short hair and they all wear white shoes."
Grinning across the table, dangling his black-trimmed glasses in one hand, he said, "American girls wear their skirts too short and too wide. Their clothes have no form.
"French girls wear mostly slim skirts, but they don't dress alike."
An American cosmetic that drew a comment from the dark-haired Frenchman was lipstick. According to Jean-Jaques, American lipstick is either too bright or dark. As he says, "You can see it from a distance and when you walk up to the girl, it hits you."
SAUREL, WHO IS living at Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, says he
has been most favorably impressed with American hospitality — especially the treatment of foreign students.
"A friend and I arrived in Lawrence by train Sept. 4," he explained. "We saw posters on the station wall advertising People-to-People. The posters said to call them upon arrival.
"They (P-t-P) sent us a taxi which took us to Strong Hall. Then Harvey Martin, president of Phi Gamm, took me to the fraternity. The boys get me things even before I know that I want them myself.
"I think this is wonderful. In Paris, when a foreign student arrives, he is perfectly alone."
According to Jean-Jaques, there is a noticeable difference in American and French student freedom.
"IN FRANCE THE universities don't have so much power over the students. Kansas University has a big administration and many offices in Strong Hall to run student life. Parents and teachers have meetings together. The girls must be in their dormitories at certain hours. Fraternities have housemothers and in general, students live among students.
"In France, you register in the university and go to classes, but there is no such thing as a campus. No one takes care of you or cares where you live. You live among the crowd, not just with students. Student freedom is not so limited."
Another peculiarity that Saurel has discovered is the American dating system. "Here, if you see a girl once, you ask her out."
In France, he explained, "a boy must see a girl three or four times—perhaps have tea with her—before he asks her for a date. And of course, he must be introduced to her by a friend.
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"Here," he said, "a girl may have four or five dates a week, but with different boys, but in France, a girl who dates several boys is considered a bad girl."
"IN FRANCE if a boy wants to go out with his friend's girl he must ask him, but here at KU this does not seem necessary."
One aspect of American University life that Jean-Jaques seems to enjoy very much is sports. "In Nice, France, when I was 18, I had to choose between playing tennis or being a student. I could not do both. Here I have noticed in the fraternity that a boy may have an athletic scholarship and study, too. This, I think, is very good."
He continued saying, "Unless a French boy asks a French girl to eat at a restaurant, usually the girl expects to pay for her seat in the movie or whatever—like your
dutch date. And of course," he added, "most French girls don't drink."
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Wirtz Nomination is Approved by Senate
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—The Senate today approved President Kennedy's nomination of W. Willard Wirtz to succeed Arthur J. Goldberg as Labor Secretary in the Kennedy cabinet.
Wirtz, formerly under-secretary,
was cleared by voice vote.
Acting Democratic leader Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., praised Wirtz as "an experienced and able lawyer" who has "an intimate working knowledge of labor relations."
Wirtz has been acting secretary since Goldberg resigned to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Goldberg's nomination is pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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