Foreign Enrollment At All-Time High
KU's venture in good will—its foreign student program—has grown by leaps and bounds since its founding in 1871.
Today, 213 foreign students representing 51 nations attend classes here. That's a big increase from the 1871 enrollment—exactly one student.
KU's foreign student programs began when Grace E. M. Scoullar from Canada enrolled in 1871 to study a classical course. Next year two more Canadians enrolled, Dilbert and Lizzie Yeagley, a third Yeagley, John, arrived in 1872.
Foreign enrollment continued to be sporadic until 1900, but more countries and courses were introduced. By 1906, Cuba, Bulgaria, Japan, Mexico, Norway and the Philippines had been represented. Gradually, students came from Romania, Turkey, Russia, Holland, Honduras and Germany.
There were no foreign students recorded in 1873-74, but a Welsh student enrolled in 1875.
In the 1920's Philippine students made up the majority of foreign enrollment. Fields of study expanded to include pharmacy, medicine, and engineering. By 1940 Italy, Iran, a number of South American and African countries, Norway, China, France, England, Germany and others had been added to the list. During the war, foreign enrollment declined, then boomed with the coming of peace.
Now All-Time High
In the 1950's, it has risen to an all-time high with 196 in 1956-'57 and 213 this year. These figures do not include 40 foreign students at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., or students from U. S. territories. Almost all departments at KU have at least one foreign student.
Foreign women outshine men on grades, as do their American sisters. The foreign women's grade point average on a 3-point scale was 2.08 last year. Men had a 1.72 for a overall foreign average of 1.80. The all-university average, 1.46 can't be compared accurately because it did not include graduate students.
They Like Activities
Foreign students must prove their ability to speak and understand English before they are admitted to KU. However, they may refresh their English by taking American English for Foreign Students.
Students from other lands take part in several extracurricular activities. Collectively they stage a Foreign Student Festival every spring which includes colorful displays and program numbers from around the world.
Finances are a problem for some foreign students. Ordinarily, they cannot work without permission from the U. S. government, so they must arrange their finances
AWS Senate Petitions Due
Candidate petition forms for the AWS Senate election March 5 are available at the dean of women's office, 220 Strong Hall.
The election committee chairman, Joanne Beal, Lawrence senior, said petitions should be turned in to the election committee before Feb. 13 in 205 Flint Hall. The prospective candidates will be briefed there on a test to be given in the same room at 4 p.m. Feb. 11.
The test will cover AWS regulations, organizations and projects. Each petitioner will be asked to solve some problem relative to AWS functions.
Twelve of the 15 Senate seats are to be filled at the election. Three freshmen elected last semester will remain in the Senate to assure class representation.
Senate offices to be filled are president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and representative to the All Student Council.
The election committee will announce the candidates Feb. 27. The AWS House of Representatives will be elected two weeks after the senators are chosen.
before leaving home.
Once a foreign boy found himself in Kansas without money to get home. He could not get his visa extended, but during the summer he was able to work in a pea canning factory on the West coast. He saved enough money only to have it stolen. Members of the fraternity where he had lived at KU chipped in enough to get him home—an example of the good will created by the foreign student program.
KU's part in the lives of students from other lands has been demonstrated many times after they leave the University. Juan F. Nakpi of the Philippines, a KU engineering graduate in 1922, was honored in 1955 by France with the Chevalier Cross of the Legion of Honor for work in architecture. The late Philippine president, Ramon Magsaysay, cited him as an "outstanding architect, dynamic leader and citizen of our time." Earlier he received KU's Distinguished Service Award. Distinguished Service Award
Enrique M. Gonzalez from Mexico, a 1929 graduate, also won the His son, Enrique Gustavo Gonzalez, enrolled at KU this semester.
James Surface, dean of the business school, has selected three students to accompany him to an Educational Forum sponsored by the Controllers Institute of America. Kansas City chapter, in Kansas City, Monday, February 10.
Three Selected For Conference
Sharon Dye, Wichita, Robert Marquette, Lawrence, and Don Spalding, Kansas City, Kans, all seniors are the three Dean Surface selected
Deans from the University of Missouri, University of Kansas City, Missouri State College and KU have been invited to attend the meeting. Each dean will bring three students. There will be a panel discussion on undergraduate training in accounting following a dinner at the University Club.
Mexican Film Slated For Friday
The picture, in Spanish with English subtitles, will be shown in Hoch Auditorium at 7:30 Friday night.
A Mexican film, "Rio Escondido," is Friday's presentation in the KU Film Series.
Mexican actress Maria Felix stars in the picture as a schoolteacher who is assigned to the small village of Rio Esccondido.
The trouble starts when she discovers that the village "patron," who owns most of the town, has stabled his horses in the schoolhouse. Aided by a young doctor, she fights to save her school and the village from the tyrannical rule of the patron.
Daily hansan
Thursday, Feb. 6, 1958
55th Year, No. 81
The new School of Business will be located north of Sumnyside Avenue, southeast of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. The building will also house the computation center and the Bureau of Business Research.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-(UP)-Jack Mitchell, a native son hired to bolster Kansas University football for-tunes, made a splash with Jawhawk alumni last night but tempered their jubilance with a plea for support.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The contract for electrical installations was awarded to Yee and Trubey Electric Company of Manhattan, whose bid was $79,994.
Mitchell, the former Arkansas head coach who was hired at KU following Charles Mather's resignation last autumn, emphasized the need for an ever-increasing student body.
Addressing some 200 former students and wives, almost all optimistic that Kansas would make the Orange Bowl in two years, Mitchell said the school's athletic success would depend on solid financing.
Mitchell Asks For Support
Committee Punishes Enrollment Culprits
Mitchell chose to leave the predictions to others. He said instead, "We've got to be concerned with building a team which people will come to see." He said the job 'cannot be done with 30,000 people in the stadium" at Lawrence. "We've got to have 60,000."
Plumbing, heating and air conditioning for the new building will be installed by Brune Plumbing, Heating and Electric Company of Lawrence. Their bid was $191,363.
The general contractor is the Martin K. Eby Construction Company of Wichita, which submitted a bid of $861,435.
Contracts Let For Business School Building
The three major contracts for the new business school building, totalling $1,132,792, have been tentatively awarded to three Kansas firms.
Weather permitting, construction will start within the next 30 days with a target date of September 1959 for completion.
All 95 Put On Probation; 2 Lose Campus Privileges
The students responsible for the early enrollment forgeries have been identified and punished by the Senate Disciplinary Committee.
In The Science Race-
Murphy Guest At Brotherhood Dinner Tuesday
Thurgood Marshall, director-counsel of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, will be the speaker at the Lawrence Brotherhood Banquet, Tuesday, Feb. 11 in the Union ballroom.
KU Enters Math Contest
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will introduce the speaker and John Weatherwax, mayor of Lawrence, will be toastmaster.
The students will be trying to win a $400 cash team prize and $40 for each member of the winning team given by the Mathematical Assn, of
Other special guests will be Mrs. Murphy: Mr. Wayne Allphin, Lawrence, Douglas County Attorney and president of the Douglas County Bar Assn., and the Rev. Albert G. Parker, First Presbyterian Church, who will give the invocation,
L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, told The Daily Kansan weekly night that two students "have been disciplined by withdrawing from them the privileges of campus activities and of driving automobiles on campus."
"I don't feel there will be many students better than ours from any university," Springer said. Some of the other universities in the competition will be Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and California Institute of Technology, all winners last year.
Kansas University's prospects in its first entry in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition were called "very good" by George Springer, coach of the mathematics team, in a Daily Kansan interview Wednesday.
Harold R. Fatzer, Kinsley, Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, and Mrs. Fatzer; John Anderson, Jr., Olathe, Attorney General of Kansas; and Clyde Reed, Jr., publisher of the Parson's Sun and Republican candidate for governor of Kansas.
Frank Theis, Arkansas City, chairman of the Kansas Democratic Committee; Judge Carl Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. courts system; Mrs. Johnson; Harry Darby, Kansas City, Kan., former U. S. senator from Kansas, and Mrs. Darby.
The banquet will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union ballroom. Tickets are available in the KU-Y office.
Chaplin Is 'Persecuted'
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland —(UP)— Comedian Charlie Chaplin said today that a United States claim for $1,400,000 in taxes filed against him in Hollywood is "further proof of a revengeful and continual persecution."
America, and a $2,500 scholarship awarded to an individual by Harvard University.
The 6-hour test, to be taken at KU this Saturday from 9 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m., will be given to seven math students making up a 3-student team and four individual entries.
Team members are John E. Beam, Ottawa; Dianne Hays, Kansas City, Kan., and Arland Bruce Ramsay, Dodge City; all seniors.
Individual entrants in the competition will be David T. Græves, Kansas City, Kan. senior, and Joseph F. Hanna, Dighton; John R. Hedstrom, Kansas City, Kan., and James C. Pool, Wellsville, all juniors.
- They have "contributed to the scholarship fund" the amount they gained from sale of the fake enrollment forms, he said.
The students have also been placed on probation with 93 others who were caught using the fake forms.
DEAN L. C. WOODRUFF
Dean Woodruff said the Disciplinary Committee was to meet again today. At Wednesday's meeting, the committee "continued to investigate and talk with those more involved" in the case, he said.
In deciding the settlement of the case, the committee had the options of acquittal, expulsion from school or probation and other intermediate punishments, Dean Woodruff said.
Today's committee meeting will cover other student infractions as well as the enrollment case.
Dean Woodruff refused to give the names of the permit forgers. Members of the Disciplinary Committee also refused to give the information.
Heart-Throb Ball In Union Friday
The Heart-Throb Ball for the residents of all scholarship halls will be held from 9 to 12 Friday night in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
The dance, sponsored by the Scholarship Hall Committee, will be attended by scholarship hall residents, their dates, and the faculty advisers of each hall. No tickets will be sold, as entrance arrangements will be made in the halls before the dance, according to publicity chairman Ken Kreutziger, Wichita sophomore.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness and colder tonight with intermittent snow west and north-central portions, mostly ending tonight. Friday partly cloudy and continued cold. Low tonight 10 north to 20 southwest. High Friday 25 to 35. Low this morning. 22. Low
Low this morning 22. Low
Wednesday 26, high 44.