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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1965
KU Students Find Contrasts in Mexico
KU students visiting Mexico over the vacation found the country a colorful land of contrasts, a land where happy, simple people live in poverty beside concentrated wealth.
Sponsored by the International Club. 38 students and faculty members left Lawrence Dec. 20 and traveled by bus to five Mexican cities.
Students from the United States, Germany, Italy, England, Belgium, Norway, Puerto Rico, France, and Switzerland took the trip. They were accompanied by seven faculty members and students from Kansas State University, Cottey College in Nevada, Mo., Virginia University, and Harvard University.
"I liked best the Mexican people," Werner Amrein, Switzerland graduate student, said. "They all look so
happy although most of them live in poverty."
SIGMUND RO, NORWAY graduate student, thought the trip more of an introduction, or a starting place, for further study of the country.
"It is a country of contrasts both geographically and where the people are concerned," he said. He found extreme poverty contrasted with the concentrated wealth of a limited group.
"The people react in a much less subtle way than we do," Ro said. "It is less complex, more immediate."
Ro was most impressed by the anthropological museum in Mexico City. "I don't know to what extent these people in Mexico are conscious of this glorious past, but I think they are," he said.
$150,000 NASA Grant To KU for Graduates
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has made a $150,000 grant to KU to provide traineeship for 10 students working towards the Ph.D. degree in engineering and science during the next three years.
This is the third consecutive NASA grant to KU for graduate fellowships and 16 students currently hold these awards.
In discussing the grant, John R. Craig, research program manager of NASA, said, "It is almost unique among governmental grants since the university itself decides how it will be used. The recipient also has a wide latitude in selecting a field for study and research."
The goal of the traineeship program is to accelerate interest in fields that are valuable to NASA and to attract superior students to these fields.
"Many branches of engineering and science are essential, in some way, to NASA," Craig said. "Approximately 140 schools are now training nearly 2,000 Ph.D. candidates through grants similar to this one."
Both the student and KU will receive matching grants from the fund, approximately $2,500 for each of the 10 students each of the three years,
John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, said.
Dean McNown said this is one of four NASA grants now in operation at the University. Richard K. Moore, professor of electrical engineering holds two, one for radar and microwave radiometry studies for $231,000 this year, and one for study of earth radar returns from the Canadian Alouette satellite. $25,000. Dean McNown is chairman of the committee on interdisciplinary studies in space science and technology which administers another annual grant of $100,000.
ARMIDA BORDI, ITALY graduate student, was also interested in the museum. It is divided into rooms, each representing a period of their civilization, from the first inhabitants to the Spanish conquest.
Miss Bordi also mentioned the city of Cholula, a small village with 365 churches. One of these churches is built on top of one of the biggest pyramids in Mexico and overlooks the whole town.
"I think the markets are especially for Americans," she said. "They speak English and accept American money."
Susanne Hilling, Germany graduate student, thought the museum beautifully and generously built. "What struck me was that it was made up in didactic form to teach the Mexican visitor his history," she said.
"THEE ARE ALMOST NO ugly things in Mexico," she said. "What impressed me most was the University of Mexico City." It is the oldest university in the Southern hemisphere, but there are no old buildings.
The group spent Christmas eve in Mexico City. "The streets were beautifully illuminated," Miss Hilling said. They walked to the Cathedral of Mexico City.
The church and the buildings in the square in front of it were lighted uniformly with many small bulbs. "It made an overwhelming impression," she said. "It was so well done and so uniform. They refrained from color and exaggeration."
MISS HILLING FOUND MEXICO a good place to shop. "Everything is handicraft," she said. "They are well done with a good sense of color in good taste."
New Year's eve was celebrated in
Acapulco. Most of the group attended a party at the beach there, but Mr. and Mrs. Larry Schlotfeldt remained at the hotel and watched Mexican families celebrate.
Schlotfeldt is a Lawrence graduate student majoring in Spanish. "We were particularly interested in the customs of the people" he said.
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AT THE HOTEL THE MEXICAN families all drank champagne and congratulated each other. There was a long series of embraces that are quite typical of the people, Schlotfeldt said.
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He and his wife liked the inn where they stayed at San Miguel Deallenca the best. It was previously a convent for nuns. "It was rather drab from the outside but very picturesque inside," he said.
While in Puebla, the group visited the pyramids of Tajin and a ceramic museum.
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The $115 fee covered transportation, hotels, and three days of meals in Acapulco. Trip organizers were Norma Repuyan, Junction City senior and International club social chairman, and Jerry Harper, Wichita station.
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