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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 5, 1956
Foreign Students See Mexico's Contrasts
Mexico is a country of contrasts—wealth and poverty, high culture and cruelty, and beauty and filth. This is an impression of Mexico Josef H. Steidl, graduate student from Salzburg, Austria, got as he saw it during the Christmas vacation.
"While in Austria I had a false idea of Mexico. I thought it might be a country of medieval towns. But I was so amazed to find modern towns and huge airports and a luxurious up-to-date university in Mexico City." he said.
The streets in Mexico City are so beautiful and palace-like villas are seen but there is a great contrast between the rich and poor, he pointed out.
"I can't imagine how the civilized people can enjoy such cruelty," Steidl said about bullfighting.
Though this might sound strange to the Latin American people, Steidl is not the only one who felt compassion for a bull. So did Mohamed I. Kazem, graduate student from Cairo, Egypt. Kazem has visited Mexico three times.
New To Europeans
"Mexico is something new to Europeans and Asians. It offers the tropical surroundings of banana and mangoes mingled with the American civilization of skyscrapers," Kazem said.
Many Unions
"Every occupation has its union including shoe-shiners." This movement may help decentralize the wealth from the rich, but how the workers spend their increasing incomes may pose a problem, he said.
A survey shows that approximately eight other foreign students went to Mexico. They are Destmael L M De Wilde, Brussels, Belgium; Nizel Kermode, Jersey, C I, England; Enrici Sinibaldi, Rome, Italy; Elisabeth Siebers, Duisburg, Germany; Reinhold Vogl, Vienna, Austria; Philippe Hieronimus, Paris, France; Heribert Pick, Trier, Germany, all graduate students, and Marie-Madeleine Susini, R a b a t, Morocco, special student.
Correction
Through a typographical error, The Daily Kansas reported yesterday that Jack Zimmerman, 52, had been promoted from news editor to city editor of the Lawrence Journal-World. Actually, Mr. Zimmerman has been promoted from city editor to news editor.
UNESCO Reservations Due
Reservations for the UNESCO luncheon Monday in the Kansas Room of the Student Union must be made by noon Saturday, Clayton Crosier, associate professor of civil engineering, said today. Crosier is chairman of the Kansas Commission for UNESCO, which is sponsoring the luncheon. Reservations are to be made in 9 Marvin Hall. The speaker will be Ruth Wagner, managing editor of the Kansas Teacher magazine.
Scholarship Open For Engineers
Establishment of the Ahrens Engineering Scholarship fund at the University of Kansas was announced today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Income from the endowment will provide an annual award of $250 to a graduate of a high school in Miami county for the freshman year in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The Ahrens scholars will be chosen by a scholarship committee from among candidates recommended by the principals of the five high schools in Miami county. The award will be made on the basis of financial need, character, leadership, promise of future growth and high school academic records.
Henry D. Ahrens graduated from the School of Engineering and Architecture in 1911.
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