Next stop: KU?
Javier Zapata, Peru graduate student, standing left to right; Frank Hatchett, Little Rock, Ark. graduate student; Duke Lambert, Guyana sophomore; Masoud Moayer, Iran senior, and Jailil Zarraby, Iran teaching assistant. Seated left to right, Jose Gvevara, Bolivia graduate student; Karl F. Borsai, Austria teaching assistant; Derek Chulasanie, Thailand graduate student; M. Jamil Samaan, Palestine senior, and Mahmoud Moayer, Iran visitor.
International living bridges world gap
By CAROLYN BOWERS Kansan Staff Writer
International House residents are proof that nationalities do get along—even if their nations don't.
Representatives of Bolivia, Austria, Thailand, Palestine, Iran, Guyana and the United States live in the apartment below the UCCF building and pay $45 a month rent.
Sponsored by United Campus Christian Fellowship, the 11-man living group began last fall under the direction of the Rev. Raphael Sanchez and the Rev. Otto Zingg, as an experiment in international living.
International Houses, quartering as many as 500 students, are
found at several universities across the country.
"While they not only help to house foreign students," Rev. Zingg explains, "they also serve as a focal point for discussion of foreign affairs without barriers."
This year the group plans to sponsor formal discussions with faculty and students on important issues.
Although there are no religious or ethnic restrictions, only two members from a country may stay at the same time.
This distribution exemplifies the purpose of international living as these men from various backgrounds have realized.
Cortland Berry, Olathe senior,
scys "this is the only homogeneous group living on campus.
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"The atmosphere is different.",
he says. "In dorms they (foreign students and Americans) don't communicate. A foreign student won't turn to an American—black or white—because he has his own friends who speak his own language and they also don't meet anyone else."
According to Majid Samaan, senior from Palestine, International House members are "dissolving the obstacles and barriers (cultural and political) by a wey of communication, guided and unconscious, between those from different nations with different cultural backgrounds."
Through this the men hope to achieve an understanding of the reasons behind major international problems.
Karl Bersali, Austrian graduate student, adds that a person living among his own people has only "local information" about a situation.
"Then you find out that you've been saying things you shouldn't because you suddenly find out from a person from that area that is isn't quite so," he says.
The KU researchers are optimistic about their chances of getting the dust, Miss Dreschhoff says. Most requests are for moon rocks rather than dust, she says.
Miss Dreschhoff and Zeller plan to test the lunar material for solar particle radiation damage. Because such radiation penetrates solid substances only slightly, she says rocks would be useless.
Col. James McDivitt, former astronaut and manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Operations Office, will weigh their request against many similar requests for lunar material before deciding who will receive portions of the material brought from the moon in July.
Zeller and his assistant will test for radiation damage by looking for chemical changes caused when the lunar surface was bombarded by protons from the sun.
One indication of chemical changes would be the presence of water in the material. Silicates, the salts which make up much of the moon, have a high oxygen content. When the oxygen molecules react with the proton radiation, water is formed.
By MARY JO THUM Kansan Staff Writer
One problem in using moon dust. Miss Dreschhoff says, is the possibility of contamination from rocket exhaust of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module landing.
And the moon samples have not been kept in a vacuum in Houston since they were brought to earth, so they probably have been somewhat contaminated, she says.
Moon dust expected soon
Sign in a downtown Lawrence store window:
Miss Dreschhoff and Zeller went to Houston's Manned Space Center last week to obtain a onegram specimen of the dust which covers the moon's surface.
Moon Rocks for Sa
$10,000 apiece
25c to touch
Moon Rocks for Sale:
One KU student may not have to pay to touch moon relies. Gisela Dresshoff, German graduate student in physics, and Prof. Edward Zeller, the KU geologist for whom she is research assistant, hope to have a sample of lunar dust by the end of this week.
If the kU researchers receive a lunar sample for testing, they
must return it to the Manned Space Center. The testing results also must be submitted to the center where they will be published with data gathered by other scientists.
Miss Dreschhoff has been Zeller's research assistant since June 1967. She hopes to receive her Ph.D. in physics this year. Before coming to KU, she was a physicist for the German Bureau of Standards.
When she began her studies at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1958, Miss Dreschoff was the only woman among 300 men studying physics. When she left the university six years later, there were
a few more women, but she says it is still unusual in Germany to find a woman in this field.
Jungle Jim has a monkey on his back
You've heard about the new DX promotion; you know, the one where Sunray DX has a monkey on its back to prove that its products are the best? And will give you a monkey (oops, money!) back guarantee that they are? Well, Jungle Jim must have done something right, because he actually does have a monkey on his back—he claims it's for the promotion, but his mother keeps muttering something about "Siamese twins."
Anyway, Jungle Jim says that DX Super Boron (or Improved Regular) and DX oils will keep your 'Vette or Willys Aero Knight running like a bat out of the nether regions. And if that doesn't do it, a Jungle Jim Hisself Supertune and service job will.
But the best part about it is that we're not 'way out in the tulies, so you can stop and get your free Antenna Banana at 23rd and Iowa on your way to Lone Star (or Tijuana, or Gatehouse, or wherever you go on your weekends).' Nuff said.