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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 16, 1968
International House
East meets west in unit
By DIANE SAMMS Kansan Staff Writer
Sketches by Mike Shearer
A new experiment in international living is being tried at KU.
Twelve men, representing eight nations and four continents, are living in the International House located in the lower level of the United Campus Christian Fellowship, 1204 Oread.
Besides housing foreign students, this experiment provides a base of communication among students from all nations, explained Larry Van Sickle, Topeka senior and house manager.
"We like to have people come over and talk," said Karl Borsai, Vienna, Austria, graduate student. "We are interested in getting in contact with Americans, and we hope they will want to get in contact with us as well.
"We love to get calls from pretty girls," Borsai quipped, adding that the telephone is listed in Van Sickle's name.
Residents are planning mixers. Foods of the nations represented will be served as residents meet student guests.
But the mixers will have to wait-until the residents are settled in their new home, they explained. Their main task at present is acquiring furniture, some of which has been donated, to furnish the 10-room living quarters.
Maintenance of a bulletin board of University events, which features "Garbageman of the Week"-the resident assigned
Rather than beer, parties and last Friday's date—primary discussion topics in many of KU's living units—most International House conversations center on world politics, Borsai said.
"There are sometimes little disagreements among nations," Borsai said. "We have them, but there are definitely no basic disagreements. There is hardly anyone among us who has not had a large international experience. If you have had that, you automatically are more objective, less prejudiced and more just," he added.
The Rev. Otto Zingg, UCCF campus minister, said the idea for International House emerged when neither he nor his colleague, Rev. Rafael Sanchez,
chose to live in the facility which formerly housed the Center's pastorate.
"We heard about the crisis in housing for foreign students and we saw a need for the kind of international community this represents," Mr. Zingg explained.
Mr. Zingg and Mr. Sanchez presented their idea to Clark Coan, dean of foreign students. With the cooperation of Dennis Parle, assistant dean of foreign students, Mr. Zingg said, students were referred to the Center. The campus ministers requested that Parle send students representing as many continents and nations as possible, with no concentration of students from any one area.
"Perhaps this will serve as a pilot project that will get a grant from some foundation for housing for foreign students," Parle said.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—Apollo 7 commander Walter Schirra, irritated at being awakened too early by mistake today asked ground controllers to "give us a chance to get some sleep" in battling common colds that may present uncommon problems on the astronauts' return to earth.
Colds are still major problem of Apollo 7
Space center physicians were studying the possible effects the colds might have on the pilots, particularly in pressure changes, when the 16-ton moonship begins its dive back into the earth's atmosphere Oct. 22.
Schirra, 45, has had a cold since a few hours after Friday's launch from Cape Kennedy and Donn Eisele, 38, and Walter Cunningham, 36, both showed symptoms of the pesky virus as Apollo 7 flew into the fifth day of its 11-day orbital test run.
"We three have colds," Schirra said after he was mistakenly awakened an hour early today. "I asked for an hour and a half
extra sleep for each last night and that apparently was ignored."
Despite the aggravations of stuffy heads and the sniffles, the three astronauts went ahead with preparations to stage a second "live" telecast from orbit at 9:28 a.m. CST.
Schirra scolded ground controllers for waking him and Cunningham an hour too soon today by running a radio test.
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