Colombian Students Tell Views On U.S.
By Barbara Lynn Williams
KU has been playing host to a group of six Colombian students, who have been sent here by their respective universities "in order to know America, to meet the people, learn their customs, and compare the American student with the Colombian student."
Hector Jose Pulido, National University of Colombia; Horacio Mosquera, the Escuela de Administracion Y Finanzas; and Carlos Albertos Osorio, Julio Castellanos, Carlos Correal, and Nacho, all from the Universidad Industrial de Sonlanoer, are on a month's tour of the United States.
AS TO WHAT impressed them most in the U.S., they all said it was the mechanization of the American Society. "There is a machine for everything," they said.
The currency in Colombia is the peso, about the equivalent of seven cents in American currency.
Hector Pulido attends the National University for 120 pesos (about eight dollars) a year. Education at the Universidad Industrial is expensive, he said. It is $60 a year.
ON A GALA night in a Colombian town, an American dollar will buy four pitchers of beer and three packets of imported
(American) cigarettes, one of the students said.
The technical training given in the American universities has impressed them, they said; but, they added, the American student's interest in national and international affairs is much less than a Colombian student's.
They feel the schools in Colombia give the students a better perspective of world affairs than do the American schools. One student was particularly offended when he told someone in the U.S. that he was from the Colombian University, and the person did not know where Colombia was.
THERE ARE ONLY 28 universities for the 17 million people in that country. Bogota, the largest city, has the biggest university, the National University, with 10,000 students, and 13 smaller ones with between 1,000 and 2,000 students in each.
After the Kennedy assassination, one of the Bogota universities was renamed Kennedy University.
The six students will also be visiting Toledo, Buffalo, Washington D.C., and Miami before returning home.
4 Daily Kansan Wednesday January 18 1966
Wednesday, January 12, 1966
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