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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 9, 1957
Don't Knock Grad Students
Don't look at graduate students as if they are some strange, incomprehensible species who don't know when to say "when" with regard to prolonged educations! Advanced degrees are becoming increasingly common and desirable.
Back about the turn of the century when most of our grandparents were spring chickens, an eighth grade education was considered fortunate and adequate for most vocations.
By the time our parents had grown to the same age, the educational requirements had increased. "Anyone who's anyone graduates from high school," they used to say.
At the present time, a person who is to be successful has a college degree. In most professions today "the person with a future" has a college degree. In fact, many companies have education programs so that employees may attend college while they are working.
But, as ever, educational standards are rising. "Advanced degrees are only for those who want to teach," they used to say a few years ago. That's not true any more.
Seniors who have been recently interviewed may well realize the value of an advanced degree even at initial employment.
For example, a large corporation with headquarters in the East, offers a man with a Bachelor
of Science in journalism $427 a month to begin (if he's a veteran; slightly less to a non-veteran). But to the same man with a master's degree the company offers $457 a month to begin, and his advancement opportunities are considerably better.
So what? you ask.
So it's $30 a month more to start, plus the important words "advancement opportunities." Those of us who have worked for a living know what any raise, however small, can mean. And those of us who could have advanced while working for a company, if we had only had the advanced educational requirements, know the importance of advancement opportunities and requirements.
Perhaps those persevering, long - suffering graduate students are the ones on a campus who possess real foresight.
The old argument of "experience vs. education" is a thing of the past. Many educators look toward the time in the near future when it will require five years or more to complete the work for a bachelor's degree in all fields.
If you think graduate students are strange ducks, look again, it might be "crazy like the proverbial fox."
Russian Exchange Program?
Jim Tice
With regard to foreign students, KU has had a rich past. After reviewing the great success of the student exchange program on Mt. Oread, is it too much to ask during this time of cold war that the University of Kansas consider an exchange program with Soviet Russian institutions of higher education?
The KU annual catalogue says that the first students who ever came here to study from outside the United States were a Japanese and a Mexican. They enrolled in the year 1891. However, the real upsurge, in terms of number, came with the end of World War I. In those days there was no organized effort either on the part of the University or the federal government to induce foreign students to come to America. Students from other countries came here to study on their own. Many worked through the universities, as many Americans did.
Quite a number of people came from the Philippines then. In fact, in the 1924-25 academic year, 15 of 23 foreign students were from that island country, which then was a United States dependency. But aside from this, major countries were fairly well represented always. At one time there were even Russians, who may have fled from their country where the Bolshevik revolution was under way. Noteworthy is the fact that no German students came until 1927, seven years after the end of the war.
Toward the end of the year of 1926, The Daily Kansan reported that KU contributed out of the proceeds of the Christmas students' friendship fund to the Russian Student Scholarship and the International Student Service. This contribution provided ways and means whereby students could get education, established soup kitchens and built barracks and medical stations for refugee students from the Near East and from Russia.
Today, we have the World University Service which helped many campuses and students in Europe after World War II and which more recently was instrumental in bringing students who escaped from Hungary to the United States.
In 1920, the Cosmopolitan House was established at 1633 Indiana. This is a house for KU foreign
students and for Americans who are interested in learning to know them. It is, in fact, a simulated fraternity for foreign students.
Unlike their predessessors in the 20's, foreign students today live side by side with American friends in organized or private houses. It is generally conceded on the Hill that this is a better arrangement for all concerned. About 50 organized houses have given residence scholarships to foreign students, which is a very good record on a nation-wide basis, even though the total number of foreign students is not in itself impressive.
KU, which created in 1947 the office of foreign student adviser, gives annually a considerable number of scholarships to foreign students. There are many private and government scholarships, too. On the national level, the International Institute of Education was created after the war to administer various programs of educational exchange.
But it was KU that started the exchange program with German universities in 1930, the last scholars being exchanged in 1938. Under this, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Samuel Anderson, instructor of Germanic and Slavic languages, and Harold Allen of the Allen Press, Lawrence, went to Germany. Today, KU maintains exchange programs with about half a dozen European universities.
Lloyd H. Houston in his "A Directed Bull Session" describes German students who came to KU under this program:
"These men mixed well and seemed to find comradeship with many youths of this country that might have become enduring friendships had the years following this period been different. This exchange of university students would seem to be the one redeeming feature of our rapidly deteriorating relations with Germany."
Is it, then, hoping too much at this time of cold war to call for an exchange program between KU on one hand and University of Moscow, or Leningrad, or Kiev on the other?
... Letters ...
Food For Thought
—Hiroshi Shionozaki
Editor:
Many thanks to Leroy Zimmerman for his editorial on the Student Union cafeteria (University Daily Kansan, Thursday, May 2.)
Still. I have a complaint which I would like to add to the discussion.
I know that the items which he discussed have been bothering many of the Union's customers for some time.
The Union's argument that milk, salads, etc. are luxury items would appear much more appropriate if the quality of the
If the profit on milk and other "luxuries" is returned to us in basic items such as meat and vegetables, why are these items—especially the meats—not somewhat better in quality?
other food was slightly higher.
The servings may be slightly larger than in local restaurants, but the food is certainly not as palatable.
James Tichenor Abilene senior
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