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KU VIA COSTA RICA—Peters Caws, associate professor of philosophy, aids one of the Costa Rican students in a class he visited during the
summer. At the far right is one of the KU students now spending her junior year in Costa Rica, Mary Grauberger, Overland Park.
Down the street she ran, her bare feet churning up small eddies of dust as she hurried toward the bar. In her hands the girl carefully held three cans. In a moment she disappeared inside.
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KU Students Study in Costa Rica
This scene took place recently in the small mountain town of San Antonio de Escaucaj in Costa Rica. The girl, 12-year-old Maria, was rushing fresh finger paints to her classmates, whose classroom was in a small room next door to the bar.
INSIDE, a University of Kansas student, Jane Tasker of Kansas City, Mo., was telling her charges, in Spanish, how to use the paints. They listened quietly, and then they began to assault the papers on their desks with reds, blues and vellows.
Miss Tasker, a member of KU's first group spending its junior year abroad in Costa Rica brought arts and crafts to the community's school, now being held in temporary quarters while the school roof is being renamed.
At first, the townpeople wondered about the new visiting teacher. But now, people come to their doors to wave to her, and the children proudly take home their plaster of Paris relief maps of Costa Rica, figures modeled out of soap and painted bottles.
TEACHING ONE DAY a week is newspapers of Costa Rica, and an-
NEW STUDENT SIZE — Jane Tasker, Kansas City, Mo., senior, is aiding the teaching of crafts in Costa Rica. Miss Tasker is one of the KU students who is presently in the junior year abroad program.
Miss Tasker's special project. All of the 11 KU students now in Costa Rica also have projects which they pursue while taking a full schedule of courses at the University of Costa Rica.
This first group will be succeeded by a second group from KU beginning in February. Applications are now being accepted for the second junior year abroad by George Waggoner and Francis H. Heller, dean and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
One student, Mark Horsky of Marysville, plays with a local basketball team. Another is studying the newspapers of Costa Rica, and an other is interested in social welfare institutions.
STUDENTS INTERESTED in the program, which runs from February
to November, are urged to contact the dean's office immediately so they can enroll in Special Studies in Spanish, a one hour course which meets Tuesday at 4 p.m. This course will provide students with background on Costa Rica.
The program, set up last February, enables students who have completed three semesters of college work and who have sufficient background in Spanish—16 semester hours of Spanish or its equivalent—to enroll in regular classes at the University of Costa Rica.
CREDIT EARNED by students in Costa Rica will be recognized by KU as resident credit here.
program. The costs of this program and travel are paid for by a U.S. government grant.
Prior to the departure for Costa Rica, students spend a week in Washington, D.C., in an orientation
The University of Costa Rica is a young institution, patterned on North American universities. The campus is about two miles from the capital, San Jose. Students live with Costa Rican families near the campus.
Thursday, Sept. 15, 1960 University Daily Kansan
Population Growth
NEW YORK (UPI) — Nearly three million U.S. men will become fathers this year and many will be forced to find more living and sleeping space for their families, housing sources say.
However, some will be able to convert unused attic space into additional bedroom areas.
A surge of prospective freshmen has caused University officials to make significant realignments in the residence hall system, according to Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students.
Dormitories Realigned To Meet Student Surge
The major shifts are the assignment of Luther N. Lewis Hall, with its capacity of 432, to upperclass women and of Carruth O'Leary Hall, accommodating 200, and Grace Pearson Hall, for 48, to men. These are reversals of last spring's planned occupancies.
Has Obligations
"Our obligation, under the regulations of the Board of Regents, to supply residence hall accommodations to all freshman women set off the chain reaction." Dean Woodruff said
"However, we are most fortunate that our dormitory system is highly flexible and modern, enabling us easily to meet immediate needs."
Dean Woodruff noted that all residence halls, except the original unit of Corbin Hall, are less than 10 years old and 75 percent of them have been added in the past five years. He also noted that both men and women had occured at different times each of the halls involved so that no major operating difficulties would be faced
Women Shifted
Freshman women will have all of Corbin and Gertrude Sellars Pearson Halls on North College Hill. The upperclass women who did have about half the latter structure and who also had O'Leary Hall last year will be moved to the new Lewis Hall
"The new arrangement will permit us to offer more modern dormitory facilities to both men and women than we had in September of 1959," Dean Woodruff explained.
The lineup will be: Women—Corbin, 320; Gentruc Sellars Pearson, 430; Lewis, 432. Total: 1,182, up 284 over 1959.
S70,100 Contracted
Men—Joseph R. Pearson, 416; Carr-
//Ruth-OLEY, 200; Grace Pearson,
48; Temlin, 432. Total: 1,096, up 148
over 1959.
By August I, some 250 more freshman women had signed dormitory contracts than on that date in 1959. The total of 701 contracts, each representing a payment of $100, also is 176 more than 1959's final figure. The number of upperclass women contracts is 343, up 77 over a year ago.
The August 1 figure for men's resident hall contracts was 826. This men's housing system is so new there are no valid comparative figures.
Ample Housing
Dean Woodruff expressed confidence there would be ample housing for KU's student body this fall.
"We're going to come out about even on the increase in women's enrollment and there are still places in Oread Hall for men and adequate housing in Lawrence homes," he said.
Oread Hall, just west of Memorial Stadium, is a World War II barracks structure without food service. Last year it was open only in the fall semester. Men living there will pay $10 rent for the semester, compared to $90 throughout the rest of the residence hall system, and will have the option of taking meals at Joseph I. Pearson Hall.
Both men and women pay $70 a month for room and board of 20 meals a week.
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