The International Plan-
Foreign Student Hospitality Plan Brings KU National Significance
By R. H. CHESKY
Thursday, April 29, 1954
Students and teachers usually are aware of the activities—both athletic and academic—which bring national recognition to their own universities. Hence, it seems surprising how little is known around Mt. Oread about the national significance of KU's Foreign Student Hospitality program.
In operation for the past four years, the Foreign Student Hospitality program is a system of voluntary assistance to foreign students on the part of fraternities, sororites, residence halls, and other organized houses. Conceived and set in motion by a KU professor, the program is the largest of its kind on any American campus. More than 200 foreign students have been able to study here as a result of the program's operations since its inception in 1950. Although its essential features have been duplicated on other campuses, no other school even approaches KU in terms of widespread support of the system.
The program begins each spring with a letter to all organized houses over the signature of Dr. J. A Burzle, professor of German and the man who originally conceived the hospitality program. The letter requests the aid of every house for deserving foreign students during the academic year to begin the following fall.
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Houses interested in participating in the program usually agree to furnish room and board for one foreign student each year, although crowded conditions in some houses permit only providing of board. The houses are allowed several choices as to the nationality and age of the student they are to sponsor and entertain. Every attempt is made to adhere to the desires of the houses, and a final choice is made by the houses from a list of applicants submitted by Dr. Burzle.
Finally, and most important, the individual foreign student lives for a full academic year with the group which sponsors him. Thus, the program becomes not only a financial transaction, but a mutual sharing of cultural patterns between Americans and students from abroad.
The university simply needed more funds to aid foreign students," he said. "Yet, we saw at the same time how other than financial aims could be served by a program of this sort. Foreign students, instead of being set apart from Americans, would become part of a living American community. They would come to know America more intimately, and members of our own organized houses would profit from the experience, too."
Dr. Burzle was chairman of the committee on scholarships for foreign students—a position he still holds—when the Foreign Students Hospitality program was begun. At its inception, Dr. Burzle said, the program was regarded as a solution to basically financial difficulties.
Dr. Burzle said he believes the KU hospitality program compares favorably with the "international house" plan favored in some cities and universities.
"International houses, although they do bring foreign students
together in one place, tend to become "foreign islands," he said, "completely divorced from the life of the community in which they are located. It's so much better here, where the students from abroad aren't set apart in a house which everyone thinks of as 'foreign' and besides, our International club on the campus brings the students together so they can become acquainted with other than American students."
Dr. Burzle said he has always been pleased and gratified at the support the program has received from organized houses. Pressure never has been exerted on any house, he said, yet the groups respond each year in ever greater numbers. Only a very small minority of houses have declined to take part in the program, he said.
Twenty-nine organized houses already have agreed to participate in the program next year. They include:
Sororities: Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Kappa, Alpha Omicron Pi, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, and Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Fraternities: Acacia, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha KappaLambda, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Sigma Nu.
Men's residence halls: Jolliffe, Stephenson, and Pearson.
Women's residence halls: Templin, Miller, Sellards, Watkins, and Corbin.
Cooperative houses: Don Henry. Rochdale.
Professional fraternities: Kappa Eta Kappa.
Bates to Attend Church Meeting
Following the meeting. Rev. Bates will attend a student Christian conference and a pastor's conference in Germany.
Rev. Robert Bates, minister to students of the Christian church, is the delegate of the Disciples of Christ of the U.S. to the Ecumenical Student Workers conference, May 24 to 31 in Geneva, Switzerland. He will leave here May 7. The conference is sponsored by the World's Student Christian federation.
During August Rev. Bates will aid in the World Council of
From there he will visit France, Italy and Greece in conjunction with a study of the Christian community as the essential nature of the church. This work is being sponsored by the United Christian Missionary society.
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Class of'29 To Give KU $1,450 Fund
A 25-year gift of $1,450 will be presented to the University by the class of '29 at its reunion in June
The original class fund was used to purchase a grand piano for the Student Union, and the remaining amount was given to an endowment policy. The policy recently matured and provides the class fund for the gift this year, Dr. Robert Carr, Junction City, is chairman of the 25-year gift fund.
Tickertape decorations in memory of the stock market crash of 1929 will be the theme of the reunion luncheon Sunday noon, June 6 in the Student Union. A reunion party will be held Saturday evening, June 5 in the Student Union. The class president is Clarence G. Munns, Topeka, and the secretary is Mrs. Justin Anderson of Lawrence.
Six reunions are planned for June, Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the alumni association, said this week. The classes of '04, '09, '14, '29, and '44 will hold reunions, and a special party will be held for the Gold Medal club of all alumni who graduated before 1904.
Churches Youth department's work camp in Cypress. Reforestation is the major project of the camp. He will return to his regular duties here in September.
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'Register for Next Semester' Hitt Says
Students planning to attend the summer or fall session at the University are to sign up in the Registrar's office, James K. Hitt, registrar, said today.
Mr. Hitt said that very important data can be planned, summer work can be done on the files, and students will not have to stand in lines if they will register now for next semester.
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Nelick to Talk On McCarthy
"A Wisconsininite Looks at Senator McCarthy" is the topic of Dr. Frank C. Nelick, assistant professor of English, who will speak at 3 p.m. Sunday over KLWN as part of the Sociology on the Air series
Prof. Nelick, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, is a property owner in McCarthy's home state where he lived for many years. He has made a close study on McCarthy's re-election and will discuss that phenomenon as well as a number of other phases solving the Junior Senator and the state of Wisconsin.
Dr. Nelick joined the University faculty in the fall of 1951 and was formerly a correspondent for several newspapers in Illinois and Iowa.
Award to Go To Engineer
A $400 scholarship for a sophomore student in mining and metallurgy has been awarded to the University by the American Society for Metals Foundation for Education and Research.
The scholarship will be awarded this spring to a student in mining and metallurgy selected for outstanding ability both in academic work and in leadership. Purpose of the scholarship is to stimulate increased enrollment of high grade students in metallurgical courses.
Personnel Unit Set for Radio, TV
Establishment by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters of a personnel service to serve the needs of the entire field of educational television and radio has been announced by Graydon Ausmus, president of NAEE.
The project provided for the establishment of a personnel office so that files may be maintained on all qualified personnel seeking positions in the field of educational television and radio.
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