TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1949
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE KANSAS
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Swiss Student Discovers Dating Most Important
By JOHN S. HILL
What is the most important word at K.U.? It's "date." Yes, that's right
← "date."
So says Alfred O. Schmidweber, Lausanne, Switzerland, who arrived at K.U. February 14 to enroll as a special student in the School of Business
"That word is what I hear most in the classrooms," Schmidweber said. "I mean it everywhere. I have this@
"I hear it everywhere. It seems this business of 'dating' is far more important than anything else."
"Everywhere I go I am asked, how do you like our girls?" Why is that? Do you always ask others how your girls are?"
Schmidweber, a lean, blobie man of 22, was graduated from college at St-Jawl, Switzerland, in 1946. He got his first idea of K.U., the past summer when he met a group of 15 University students, who were traveling through Europe. Alfred, who was then serving his term of compulsory military service, was their companion for three days.
"They were all extremely nice," he said. "They were good propa- da."
The propaganda worked, for he obtained a leave of absence from the Swiss Aluminum company; where he is employed at Lausanne, and came to K.U. for a semester.
"The thing which struck me first, as being different," he said, "was the professors. They are younger over here. And there is much more informality in the classrooms than in Swiss schools." He explained that in Switzerland, although questions by students in class are allowed, the informal air which surrounds the discussion in American schools is lacking there.
He compared college life in the two countries, explaining that the number of student owned cars, and the traffic on the campus, was puzzling. "No such thing exists in Europe," he said.
American fraternities amazed him, he said. "In Switzerland I belonged to a fraternity, but it was nothing like the ones here." At the state schools in Switzerland the fraternities do not maintain houses. Their social activities consist of meeting once a week for lectures on practical things, as jobs after college.
"There are no sororities in Swiss schools, nor residence halls for women. There aren't parties like you have here, either," he commented. "Such things don't exist in Swiss schools."
Alfred compared the college systems in the two countries and said "In Switzerland we have six years of primary school and three of secondary school. The college courses run for four and a half years. After that, one may attend a university, if he wishes. Another big difference in the schools is that we emphasize especially the foreign languages. One must learn three languages before he graduates." Alfred speaks five languages: English, Swiss-German, German, French, and Italian.
Swiss colleges are much smaller than American ones, usually having less than 3,000 students, and consist of three main departments: a commercial school, for business; a technical school, for trades and engineering; and a classical school, in which Greek, Latin, and many of the pre-law and pre-medical subjects are taught.
"The way students are forced to work over here is strange to me." Schmidtweber said. "The professors give them so many assignments. We have much more academic freedom in Switzerland." He added that in his country a student is not compelled to attend classes, he knows the schedule of assignments, and he can study when and as he wishes.
Situated in Europe, with communism flanking it and the Russians just 200 miles away, Schmidweber stressed the point that the democratic government of Switzerland, now 630 years old, is solidly entrenched.
He explained that "our government is the parliamentary type, with a senate and a house of representatives. Each canton (state) elects two senators. We have 48 senators and about 190 representatives. Both chambers elect a council of seven men, each of who serve as president for one year."
The standard of living in Switzerland, although not as high as that
Krimminger Heads ISA
Charles Krimminger, College sophomore, has been appointed business manager of the Independent Student association. Krimminger will be the eighth member of the L.S.A. executive council.
Other appointments are Doris Kendall, College freshman, director of office force; Carol Prichard, College freshman, dance chairman; Beverly Jennings, College freshman, party chairman; Bryan Sperry, College junior, men's intramural manager; Geneva Fleshman, education sophomore, women's intramural manager; Kathryn Herschell, education freshman, assistant women's intramural manager; Myrna Lynch, fine arts sophomore, activities chairman; Robert W. Campbell, College senior, civil rights co-ordinating committee representative; Iva Linnell, College sophomore, Kan Do editor; and Ruth Keller, journalism junior, as assistant Kan Do editor
Maxine Holsinger, I.S.A. president, said the rest of the appointments will be announced later.
The motion to let house represent- atives vote in the council meetings remained tabled.
The next meeting of council and house representatives will be in Templin hall, Monday, April 4.
Emporia Installs Fraternity Chapfer
Twenty-five members of the K.U. chapter of Alpha KappaLambda were in Emporia Sunday to take part in the installation of a new chapter of the fraternity at Kansas State Teachers' college there.
the installation of the new group brings to three the total number of chapters in Kansas, the other being Kansas State college at Manhattan.
The charter presentation was made by Dr. H. George De Kay, national president of the fraternity and a member of the faculty of Purdue University. The acceptance address was made by Dr. Ray Maul, dean of the college.
The reception was followed by a dinner in one of the local hotels. Robert L. Davis, president of the K.U. chapter, was the principal speaker.
The K.U. chapter of Alpha KappaLambda was founded at the University in 1922 and maintains its chapter house at 1127 Ohio.
Robert W. Stallman, assistant professor of English, will be on the staff of the fourth annual Writers' institute at the University of Wisconsin this summer.
of the United States, is far higher than the rest of Europe, Schmidweber pointed out, Switzerland's exports of machinery, aluminum, watches, and textiles, keep the Swiss economy going.
He will teach creative writing and verse writing classes in an eight-week summer session of the institute. Prof. Stallman will also be a leader at the second annual Kansas Writers' conference which will be held at the University from Wednesday, June 8 through Tuesday, June 21.
Stallman Will Teach At Writers' Institute
"I would like to know why the United States believe the Swiss do nothing but yodel, make watches, eat cheese, and ski all the time." Their industrial economy, he explained, disproves this entirely.
One of the white rats, used by the psychology department to prove that rats are not as smart as people, finally asserted itself. It bit a student.
Rodent Revolts, Bites Student
For years these rats have been pushed through countless mazes, knowing full well there was nothing at the end but an old dry dog biscuit. With instructors and students kibitzing and laughing when one takes a wrong turn, it was only natural that a rat would someday be provoked to action.
This particular rat, being smarter than his fellows, awaited his opportunity for vengeance and sizzed it.
The lab class had crowded around the maze, waiting for the rats to scurry around like rats are supposed to scurry.
But our little hero, along with the rest, just acted submissive and bored, and allowed himself to be pushed along the course.
Finally his chance came. Seeing the finger of a coed about to poke him in the nose, he struck the blow for freedom.
But like all revolts when the odds are too great, this one went no further. However, if you looked closely, you could see smiles of satisfaction on the faces of the revolutionary rats.
American Chemical Society
Hears 3 Graduate Students
Three graduate students in chemical engineering presented papers at a meeting of the American Chemical society in Kansas City recently.
Henry E. Hughes, gave a paper on "Instruments for Radio-Active Tracer Studies;" William B. Harding told of his research on The Turner-Burren Absorption Frac-tion" and Radiation Critical Irf- spoke on "Instrumentation in Connection with Absorption Column Research."
The symposium on "Instrumentation in Chemical Techniques" was held at Kansas City University.
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