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A visiting foreign area expert said last night that he is pleased to note that students in American colleges and universities are taking an active interest in the affairs of the day.
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Louis Dupree, an American Universities Field Staff (AUFS) representative, said when he was attending college in the 1950's, there was a feeling of apathy prevalent among students concerning the events which took place around them. But, he said, in the 1960's, this apathetic attitude among students has been replaced by one of active curiosity and interest.
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He arrived here Monday for a 10-day visit, during which he will deliver about 24 lectures to classes at KU and Lawrence High School.
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"This show of interest gratifies me very much. It is good to see the students take part in activities such as the Peace Corps. It shows that their interest can be aroused, that they can rally around a cause," Prof. Dupree said.
PROF. DUPREE, an anthropologist, has specialized in the Indo-European areas of the Middle and Far East countries.
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After earning the M.A. in 1953 and the Ph.D. in 1954 at Harvard University Graduate School, Prof. Dupree joined the faculty of the Air University and later was appointed Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. He still holds this position concurrently with his AUFS job.
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Prof. Dupree explained that the AUFS was established after World War II as a co-operative program among 12 member universities for the purpose of establishing a staff of experts on certain areas of the world. These experts are rotated between the United States and the countries in which they are specialists. While in the U.S., the specialists visit all the participating universities and lecture on their specialty area.
"THE PURPOSE of the AUFS is to find men who know a particular area. The men must know the language and background of the people. They may be economists, sociologists, geographers or scholars from almost any discipline. The men are
sent to the particular part of the world where their particular knowledge will be most useful," Prof. Dupree said.
Prof. Dupree said he became interested in his specialty area (the area around and including Pakistan and Afghanistan) by sheer accident.
"I was stationed in the Far East during the war, and I liked the area. When the war was over and I went to college, I majored in anthropology and specialized in the Far Eastern area. One day, when I was an undergraduate at Harvard, a professor asked me if I would like to go on a field study trip to Afghanistan. On that trip, I fell in love with that part of the world." Prof. Dupree said.
Do you know Robbe-Grillet? Butor? Sarrute?
A Chicago University scholar who does know will present the second Humanities Series lecture this year at KU at 8 p.m., Nov. 5, in Fraser Theater. The lecture on "The French New Novel" by Bruce A. Morrisissette, professor of French literature, will be followed by an informal reception by the Faculty Club.
French Literature Expert To Give Humanities Talks
He also has a lively interest in the new French and Italian motion pictures, and will lecture on them at 4 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union at a matinee program sponsored by Student Union Activities. He will speak on "The Evolution of the New Cinema in France and Italy."
DURING HIS three-day visit, Prof. Morrisette will also speak to classes in English, recent European history, and French literature. At dinner Monday evening with members and guests of Phi Delta Phi, French honor society, he will speak on "New Light on Rimbaud's Sonnet, 'Voyelles'" The dinner will be
He has lectured at Oberlin, Iowa. Emery, and other universities, and he taught at Johns Hopkins and Washington University before joining the Chicago faculty.
He was born in 1911 in Richmond, Va, received a B.A. degree at the University of Richmond, Doctorat d'Univ., at Clermont-Ferrand, France, and a Ph.D at Johns Hopkins. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1958-59, and was honored at Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. He has presented papers at many learned society meetings, including two at the College de France, Paris.
at 6 p.m. in the English Room of the Kansas Union. He will also have two luncheons with French faculty members.
Besides articles and criticisms in American and French publications, he has published several books, including "Life and Works of Marie-Catherine Desjardins," "The Great Rimbaud Forgery," and "Les Romans de Robe-Grillet."
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