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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Jan. 22, 1960
Chinese Student Brings Far Eastern Life Near
Chopsticks on the table...a song hummed in an unfamiliar language drifting from the bedroom . . . rice cooking on the stove . . . and into the kitchen walks a Chinese girl with a quiet, shy smile.
"The hardest thing about school here is taking notes. The test forms are too hard since there are too many questions for the amount of time," the girl says.
Yu-Lin Goretti Liu, Hong Kong graduate student, arrived in the United States in September, 1959. A graduate of National Taiwan University in Formosa, Miss Liu has a scholarship here and is majoring in chemistry.
Studies Chemistry
Miss Liu came to the United States because she wanted to study more chemistry and was encouraged to do so by one of her professors who had studied at KU. She said that there was not enough equipment in Formosa for everyone who wanted to study. She is planning to be a teacher when she returns to her home.
"I have a very strong will," Miss Liu said. "The Japanese chased us and I couldn't finish school but I studied at home. Later, I was one of the younger students in my group as I kept up on my work."
Most of the people who could afford it, ran away ahead of the Communist invasion. First, they took all your money then they took your life," she said. People with positions in society were constantly afraid.
Miss Liu, who spoke Cantonese in Hong Kong and Mardarin in Formosa, says the languages in China change from province to province.
When asked about the Communists, Miss Liu said;
"The Communists come with promises and the people are taken in because they are unsatisfied with their own government. There is no trust there now. The only hope in Formosa is to go back to the mainland. I knew of a man who had left his family on the mainland and when he couldn't return to them, committed suicide."
Reds Destrov Family Idea
"In China, the family idea is deep and the Communists try to destroy it and make the young people obey the government. It is easy to trick young people. Communism got started in China while the Chinese were busy fighting the Japanese," she said.
Miss Liu was born in Central China and went to Hong Kong with her parents after the bombing by the Japanese and the Communist invasion.
She speaks English quite well not having had any practical speaking knowledge of the language before she came here. She
started studying English when she was 12 years old and used some English text books in Formosa. She had also had two years of German. Miss Liu remarked that now her brother has started learning English in the first grade in Hong Kong. She has one sister and two brothers, all of whom are younger. Her father is a grocery merchant in Hong Kong.
Movies Make Impression
About Americans, she said that all her previous ideas were gained from movies which were "loving pictures, cowboys or wealthy people."
"I now understand that Americans work fast and work all the time. The Chinese like to make friends, but the Americans are more active and the Chinese are not so outwardly expressive," she said.
"I find people much more helpful than I had imagined and I like a small town like Lawrence," Miss Liu said.
System Developed to Spot Potential Youth Delinquency
NEW YORK — (UPI) — A system to spot potential juvenile delinquents when they are less than six years old was pronounced highly effective yesterday by city officials.
They said the City Youth Board spent nearly eight years testing the predictions of two experts from the Harvard University Law School, Drs. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck.
Of 223 six-year-olds studied in 1952, the Gluecks said 186 had little probability of turning delinquent but 37 were likely to get into trouble. They were 94.6 per cent right in predicting non-delinquents and 45.9
per cent correct in tagging potential trouble-makers, officials said.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner indicated the system would be adopted for wide use in the city's school system so that preventive steps against juvenile crime can be taken.
In perfecting their system, the Gluecks spent more than 10 years studying boys from slum areas of Boston.
Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly hand-shaking.— Friedrich Nietzsche
KU-I-State Game Televised Tomorrow
Dick Harp's KU-basketball team can move into third place in the Big Eight standings with a victory tomorrow over Iowa State. The game, which will be televised on Channel 13, will begin at 2:45 p.m. in the Iowa State Armory in Ames, Iowa.
Iowa State defeated the Jayhawkers 83-70 in a Big Eight Conference Holiday Tournament game three weeks ago in Kansas City.
Right now Iowa State holds a half-game over KU in the Big Eight standings with three wins and two losses. Just behind the third place Iowa State team, KU, in fourth place, has an even record with two wins and two losses.
Cannon Ball Blues
PENN YAN — (UPI) — A half-dozen 80-pound cannon balls were recently stolen from the veterans' section of Lake View Cemetery here. Police admitted they didn't have the slightest idea why anyone would want them.
KUOK Will Air Music to Study By
KUOK, the campus radio station,
will help students study for finals
by broadcasting study music from
noon to midnight during final week.
The station, which is staffed by KU students, broadcasts only to Carruth O'Leary, Joseph R. Pearson, CorbinNorth, Douthart, Grace Pearson, Gertrude Sellardis Pearso, and Templin dormitories and Kappa Sigma, Delta Sigma Phi, and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities.
The station is a closed circuit station and is received only by houses that have special transmitters. KUOK is 630 on the dial.
World Population Growing
NEW YORK — (UPI)— The population of the world grew from about 2.4 billion in 1950 to an estimated 2.8 billion at the end of the decade.
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