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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 24, 1961
Eight Expected
Russian Students Due Here
By Virginia Mathews
The Soviet student cultural exchange delegation which will visit KU this week will arrive in Kansas City Wednesday.
The seven men and one woman will be met by the hospitality committee and representatives of host houses. The host houses are Jolliffe Hall, Lewis Hall, Beta Theta Pi and the Stauffer Place apartment of George Bennett, Lawrence senior.
THE STUDENTS WILL eat lunch at these host houses and tour the campus during the afternoon. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Gov John Anderson will give the official welcome at a banquet for the students Thursday night. The banquet is limited to those receiving invitations.
The students will visit classes Thursday and Friday morning, Former Mayor John T. Weatherwax will conduct a tour of Lawrence for the visitors Thursday afternoon after the Russians have been guests at a Kiwis Club luncheon at the Eldridge Hotel.
The students will be exposed to the culture of American life. The Kiwanis Club luncheon speaker will talk on American business. The Haskell Indians will entertain them
at a joint meeting of the KU-Y and International Club Friday night and they will watch the baseball game between the Kansas City Athletics and the Chicago White Sox in Kansas_City Saturday afternoon.
SATURDAY MORNING a tentative meeting with former President Harry S. Truman is planned. Time left over from the planned schedule will be used for sight seeing.
The Russians will lunch with students Friday noon in the students' apartments and have dinner with faculty members at their homes Saturday evening.
KU students will have a chance to question and to visit with the Russian students at the Current Events Forum Friday. The committee thinks that the Soviet visitors know a little English, but they will have an interpreter with them.
Host houses are asked to leave Thursday night free so that their guests can do what they want to do. The hosts and hostess from the various houses are responsible for the visitors arrival at the different events. They are also asked to make certain that the visitors understand that they cannot go outside of the Lawrence city limits unless they stay on the turnpike.
THE RESTRICTIONS on the area
by the United States have been lifted only in the cities of Lawrence and Topeka. The surrounding countryside remains off-limits. This is in retaliation to the same restrictions in certain areas of the Soviet Union for American travelers.
The students will have Sunday morning free and the houses may plan programs for Sunday afternoon. Sunday evening is devoted to a meeting of the Russians and the Soviet Slavic Area Studies group at the home of Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science.
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students interested in applying for the 1961 Summer Crossroads program in Colorado Springs should see the For- mer's website, Visiser, 228 Strong, for application forms.
Episcopal Evening Prayer (Daily): 5 p.m., Canterbury House.
Business Placement Bureau Job Intern Summerfield Hall, Woman's Army Corps
TODAY
NSA Committee: 4 p.m., Kansas Union.
TOMORROW
Episcopic Holy Communion: Noon,
Canterbury House.
Mathematics Lecture (Advanced): 8 p.m. 103 Strong, Professor I. I. Kolodner, on "Free Boundary Problems for Parabolic Equations."
WEDNESDAY
Jay Janes: 5 p.m.; 306 Kansas Union
Science Building: 5 p.m.; Military Science Building
Antarctica's Icy Wastes Discussed by Professor
The unusual animals of Antarctica and the equipment used in exploring her ice wastes were discussed at the Faculty Club meeting last night by Rufus Thompson, professor of botany.
Prof. Thompson described a research trip he had made to Antarctica under a grant from the U.S. Antarctic Research Program last semester.
In describing the pennquins, he said:
"They swim at tremendous speeds. When you see them swimming toward the ice, you think they're going to crash into it. But they flip up, and their speed takes them right up on the ice. Then they waddle away at a very slow gait."
Prof. Thompson said seals sometimes weighed 1500 pounds.
"Seals are the fattest things I've ever seen—even more so than some of the prize hogs at the Topeka fair," Prof. Thompson said.
Prof. Thompson said that much of the equipment used was painted orange — buildings and helicopters included.
"OUR COATS WERE also bright orange because it is the easiest color to see if one should fall into a crevice or be lying on the ice," Prof. Thompson said. "At a distance it is hard to tell an old oil drum from a man in dark garb."
Prof. Thompson told of a stop at
Shackleton Hut, the old station established by Sir Ernest Shackelton in his 1907-09 expedition. A New Zealand historical society is restoring it.
"They (members of the historical society) served us tea and cookies that Shackelton left there in 1908," said Prof. Thompson. "They were still good."
"Most of our travel was made by helicopter," Prof. Thompson related.
Morales von Sauer Piano Recital at 8 p.m.
The School of Fine Arts will present Angelica Morales von Sauer in a faculty piano recital at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The program will include works by Cesar Franck, Robert Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy and Saint-Saens. The recital is open to the public without charge.