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Swedish Student Delighted With KU Way Of Living
A thick letter fell through the mail box slot of a yellow brick home in Borlange, Sweden. A pert, brown-haired, hazel-eyed girl quickly ended the phone call she was making, picked up the letter opened it and read it.
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"Mama, Papa," she cried, "I am going to Lawrence, Kansas!"
going to Lawrence, Arkansas.
Thus, Mariann Tiblin, special student, saw the end of eight months of waiting for word of her U. S. scholarship application.
After applying for one of the scholarships, she heard no more until Christmas when the Swedish-American Foundation in Stockholm wrote she had passed the first screening. The letter granting the scholarship came after her application had been approved by the Institute of International Education.
Dubious About Kansas
Moriann said her preparation for coming to the U. S. included asking others about Kansas, but "nobody knew a thing." The U. S. Embassy gave her a book about Kansas and, she said, "I began taking a special interest in Lindsborg
"It all began in October, 1955." Mariann recalled. "I saw a notice in the paper announcing scholarships were available for the United States and Canada."
Dubious About Kansas "Most of them said it was a 'going through' state, so they hadn't been there," Mariann recalled. "They said Kansas was very, very hot and very, very flat.
A Long Wait
"It is true about the heat," Mariann said, "but the flatness, no. I have seen 'yust' the Hill and it is very beautiful."
Coming to New York on the Norwegian liner Bergensfjord, Mariann asked American passengers about Kansas.
Once at the University, Mariann began work on art history courses, in preparation for museum work. Her major is aided by summer experience excavating at a 12th century cloister in Sweden.
A Different Life
Student life in Sweden and the U. S. differ because in the U. S., Mariann said, students are "more scheduled."
"University classes in Sweden are much freer," she said. "You plan your studies and it's up to you. You take the examination when you are ready."
MARIANN TIBLIN
The number of students driving
cars, the similar dress of students. and hour dances are three practices noted by Mariann.
"At the present time, new experiences which are very interesting and funny are the hour dances and other aspects of dormitory life," she said.
Lives At Sellards
"At first I thought it would be funny living in a suite with four girls, but now I like it," she said.
Mariann lives at Sellards Hall on a scholarship given by women of the hall.
Hamburgers, corn-on-the-cob,
watermelon and ice cream are
American foods Mariann enjoys
eating but. Mariann said, "I prefer
to avoid drinking U. S. coffee. As
amatter of fact," she added gleefully,
"I avoid drinking coffee in any country but Sweden. This is my only conservatism."
Mariann was entirely without conservatism when she said, "Two things I want to do before returning to Sweden are to learn about American art and architecture—and to go to Lindsborg!"
The term "red tape" is derived from the pink fastening used for departmental bundles of documents.
He Likes Lone Wolf Role Among 'Bevy Of Beauties'
Men take notice! Would you like to be in courses where the ratio of women to men runs 67 to one, 22 to one, and 27 to two?
If so, you should have the schedule of Jim Yonally, Miltonvale junior, enrolled in elementary education.
By the time he got to his music methods and introduction to elementary education classes, Yonally said he was getting used to being a lone wolf in a crowd of women.
Yonally said he was shocked when he walked into his children's literature class to find he was the only man among 67 ravishing coeds.
"As yet, no seating arrangements have been assigned and I have just been mingling in the crowd," he added.
"One thing is sure, you don't get a chance to say much when you are in such a large group of girls.
"In a way, I feel fortunate to be among so many girls," he said, "but I would feel more at ease with a few more fellows in the classes with me.
International Club Picnic
"My advisor warned me when he
The International Club is inviting all students to a picnic at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Lone Star Lake. Cars will leave from the Student Union. Those with cars available for transportation are requested to call Jane Ratcliff, Atwood senior, at VI 3-7600.
Genuine sealskin is so supple that an entire pelt can pass through a napkin ring. Six to ten skins go into the average fur coat, which costs from $1,500 to $2,500.
made out my schedule that the ratio would probably be fairly high in favor of the girls in these three courses," Yonally pointed out, "but I had no idea it would be anything like this."
"This is the first time all of the members have lived together in one house since we began organizing last November," President Henry Walling, Independence senior, said. "It's a lot of trouble moving in and getting settled, but it's worth it—not having the men spread out in different houses."
Delta Sigma Fhi, newly-organized social fraternity, has found a home in Locksley Hall.
"Imago Caesarias—44 B.C.-1856 A.D." is the title of the new exhibit at Watson Library. It is described as "an exhibition netchting that Caesar, 2,000 years murdered, refuses to die."
Delta Sigma Phi Finds A Home
Other fraternity officers are:
Chuck Bowles, Excelsior Springs,
Mo., junior, vice-president; Bill
Cain, Wichita junior, secretary,
Herman Woodcock, Merriam junior,
treasurer.
The Inter-fraternity Council last May approved a Delta Sigma Phi colony for KU.
The exhibit is divided into four sections, said Reginald Hennessey, assistant head of special collections at the library. They are novels and plays stimulated by Caesar, four imitators of Caesar—Julius, Frederick II, Louis XIV, and Napoleon, writings of Caesar, and the evolution of the Caesar image.
Caesar Exhibit On Display
MINNEAPOLIS—(UP)—From a sales publication: "Hats off to (Salesman X) for his storage battery vacuum cleaner demonstration idea for homes that don't have electricity."
A mid-15th century Italian manuscript will be shown together with other manuscripts, coins, and pictures.
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Mercury will freeze or solidify at about 38 degrees below zero, and it contracts instead of expanding when it does so.
Nancy Dodge, Salina sophomore, was elected secretary of Sophomore Counselors replacing Creta Carter, Jennings sophomore, at a meeting Thursday in the Student Union.
Friday, Sept. 21, 1956 University Dell C Kansas
Soph Counselors To Entertain Freshmen
A party for freshmen will be held at 6:45 p.m. today in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. The program will depict obtaining a balance between the social and scholastic sides of college life.
Art History Adds To Staff
Dr. Donald Robertson, a specialist in the field of Latin American art, has joined the department of history of art this year, replacing Dr. Klaus Berger, associate professor of history of art, who is on sabbatical leave in France.
Prof. Robertson received his doctor's degree last spring from Yale University, and has taught at the University of Texas, Queens College and Pomona College.
During the spring semester he will give classes in Latin American art of the pre-conquest and early colonial periods.
He will deliver the first of the public holiday lectures at 4 p.m. Columbus Day, Oct. 12, in the Trophy Room of the Student Union. The lecture will be entitled "Columbus Day: What Columbus Missed."
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