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Friday, August 31, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Costa Ricans Study KU System
Three representatives of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) are visiting the University of Kansas this week to further exchange programs between the two schools and to study the KU administrative structure.
The three are Eugenio Rodriguez, rector of the University of Costa Rica; Rodolfo Arion, a professor of chemistry and a KU professor of pediatrics, dean of the UCR School of Education.
"The purpose of the trip here is to talk about the interchange agreements between the two universities—open new areas of exchange," said Rodriguez.
Hesaid the possibility of beginning exchange programs in education, microbiology, and music were being discussed.
The principal interchange between the two universities is the Junior Year Abroad
program, administered by the College of
Liberal Arts.
Rodriguez said enrollment at both universities was about 20,000, but he said his budget at UCR was one-twelfth as large as the university's and the University of Kansas Medical Center.
A lower pay scale for faculty and the fact that UCR carries on much less research account for the budget difference, he said. He also noted that equipment without an endowment association.
"In South America there is no tradition of people giving large sums to universities."
The University of Costa Rica has had problems because of rapid expansion, he said. Fifteen years ago the enrollment was only 4,000.
Rodriguez said the university had not been able to mechanize itself because of a lack of resources and that it was also
He said however, that IBM had recently given the university the largest computer in Central America, and that it would be in operation soon. He said UCR planned to make its computer facilities available to other Central American universities.
hampered by a lack of computers.
Rodriguez said about 99 per cent of UCR's budget came from the national legislature, the remainder coming from student fees. He said he recognized a similarity between problems his university faced with the national legislature and those which KU administrators have encountered with the state legislature.
"The university has received from the national legislature whatever support it is able to give. But all legislatures tend to move slowly in these matters." Rodriguez
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ORIENTATION session for new KU faculty members will be at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. The orientation session and will extend an official welcome
AN EMERGENCY CALL for insulin brought four KU Traffic and Security cars and an ambulance to Fraser Hall at 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Campus police said a victim suffering from shock was found on the seventh floor of the building.
The victim was admitted to Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Senate Committee Urges More Student Involvement
Student participation, a four day school week during summer and the additional funding of institutional sports were among institutions played by Student Senate committees this week.
How to increase student participation this semester in the University's policy making bodies was discussed at the Students' Institutes Committee meeting Wednesday night.
The committee also decided to investigate the possibility of producing a handbook for students explaining the University's judiciary process.
Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City junior, was elected chairman of the Committee on Academic Affairs last night. He replaced Ralph Maline senior, who resigned this month.
The committee also discussed the
feasibility of a four day week during summer school.
The Finance and Auditing committee tabled action on a letter from KU's intramural department requesting more funds.
Robert Lockwood, instructor of physical education and director of the intramural program, requested at least $3,000 in additional funds for the program.
Lockwood said that without the funds,
men in intramural basketball and women's
college sports.
The committee didn't discuss the means of funding the LAARS 48 courses or the Curriculum and Instruction Survey, said Ms. Terry, a graduate student and chairman of the committee.
The LA&S 48 courses, the survey and several other programs were to be funded by a grant from the NSF.
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