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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 30, 1964
Foreign Student Enrollment Reaches New Total of 523
Foreign student enrollment at KU has increased over last year by exactly 100 students to bring this year's total to 523.
The students represent 82 nations in Asia, Europe, South America, North America, Central America, and Africa.
Three hundred students, over 56 per cent of the total, come from Asia. "In the United States, as a whole, over half of the foreign students come from Asia," Clark Coan foreign student adviser and assistant dean of men, said.
"Most of them come from developing nations which need the training and education provided in American schools," Dean Coan said.
Although the list of foreign students has not been broken down according to majors from past years Dean Coan thinks it safe to say most of the students from these countries will be in engineering and science.
Students from Europe, on the other hand, usually study humanities and the social sciences.
OF THE EUROPEAN countries, Germany is represented by the most students with a total of 28. "There have always been many students from Germany." Dean Coan said.
"In our foreign student scholarship program, many fraternities and sororites choose students from Western Europe which includes Germany," he said. Some are used in
Kansas ranks 13th among the 50 states in the number of foreign students studying in U.S. universities. There are about 1600 foreign students in Kansas.
teaching positions in the department of Germanic languages and literature, he added.
Dean Coan cited the training offered at KU and K-State in farming, engineering, and physical and life sciences as one reason so many come to Kansas. Most of the foreign students are at one of these two schools.
Political Parties Prepare Plans for ASC Elections
Campaign strategy for the upcoming campus elections was planned this week by KU's two political parties.
Vox Populi members met last night to hear hep talks, discuss the approaching elections and announce Wendell Edwards, Oklahoma City, Okla., senior, as a candidate from the unmarried-unorganized district.
UNIVERSITY PARTY (UP) met Wednesday night to outline election plans and to discuss its platform.
Barbara Widmer, Prairie Village sophomore, has withdrawn as a UP candidate for All Student Council representative from women's large residence halls.
Shumaker said UP would announce a candidate to fill this position by Sunday.
THE DATE OF THIS year's elections—Nov. 11 and 12—was confirmed in ASC meeting Tuesday night by Brian Grace, Lawrence first year law
student and chairman of the ASC elections committee.
The ASC had discussed changing the date of the campus elections to coincide with the national elections.
Grace also said box lunches will not be served to poll workers during the campus elections as in former years.
CARS PROMOTING the campus parties during the two-day election will not be allowed past the traffic control booths, Grace said. This includes buses and cars used to haul students to classes and specifically promoting the parties through signs and campaign literature.
THEY COME TO KU specifically because of the national image it has created around the world in its international commitments, Dean Coan said.
Grace said permission might be obtained for Jim Frazier, Topeka fifth year pharmacy student and Vox president, and Harry Bretschneider, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student and secretary general of UP, to enter campus during the elections.
KU also has three area studies programs in the Latin American area, the Soviet and Slavic area and the East Asian area. Costa Rican Peace Corps volunteers have also been trained here.
The new intensive English center has also attracted them, Dean Coan said. It is the only such center at a large school in this area.
THIRTY-SEVEN foreign students are now enrolled at the center to gain greater proficiency in the English language before going on to school or back to jobs.
A majority of the students are doing graduate study. "The trend is for students to stay longer in the United States," Dean Coan said. "This means a person coming here for his master's degree may stay to work on a Ph.D."
About one-half the students are supported either by themselves or their families. The rest are here on many different types of scholarships.
"ALMOST ALL Saudi Arabia students are sponsored by the government which in turn means oil, because oil keeps the government going," he said.
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