Monday, Oct. 26, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 9
Beckmann to Head KU International Programs
By Janet Chartier
Because KU regards international programs as a normal part of its educational role, George Beckmann, professor of history, has been appointed Associate Dean of Faculties for International Programs.
Beckmann will work closely with deans of colleges and schools, department and area program chairmen, and faculty members.
With the help of these people, Beckmann develops international study programs at graduate and undergraduate levels. This includes KU's East Asian studies program, the Soviet and Slavic area studies, and work in the Latin American area studies.
"I helped develop the East Asian studies program through the National Education Affairs Committee set up by Chancellor Wescoe," Beckmann said.
"This committee established the basic guidelines for international studies," he said. It was replaced by the Council on International Programs of which Beckmann is now chairman.
Beckmann also helps develop services for developmental purposes in several foreign countries. This includes advising on the Agency for International Development. He helps to decide KU's involvement in Peace Corps training and the Peace Corps overseas.
His duties also include developing faculty research in various fields of international studies, studying abroad, and foreign student exchange programs for graduate and undergraduate students.
He is now building a Japanese home here, designed by a Japanese architect.
KU develops the international dimension of its educational role through the help of government and private foundation grants. In June, 1963, Ford Foundation gave KU a grant of $500,000, which Beckmann administers.
It has helped KU strengthen its commitment to expand its role on the international level as a basic resource for research, teaching, and service.
The report on this grant's first year support of international programs states its assistance to KU in two general ways.
The grant helped improve KU's rate of expansion as an agent in these three fields.
Beckmann worked for three years at the Ford Foundation Association of International Training and Research Programs. He also worked on a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Japan from 1956-1957.
"To facilitate the kind of improvement and expansion of resources required to enhance the university's capacity to meet the many educational challenges in the international field," is Beckmann's purpose as stated in his letter to all faculty members.
Beckmann was a full time professor of Japanese and Chinese history from 1951-1960. He now teaches problems in Chinese and Japanese history, a senior seminar course.
"My main interest has always been in international studies," he said. He
received a degree from Harvard in Chinese and Japanese languages and his Ph.D. from Stanford in Japanese and Chinese history.
Beckmann has lived in Japan several times. He studied there twice as a Fulbright Fellow and once on the Ford Foundation fellowship.
LBJ in South Lashes at Barry
By United Press International
President Johnson, in a final campaign drive in the South where Barry Goldwater has his greatest strength, attacked today the Republican presidential nominee's stand on social security as a threat to "the hopes of older Americans."
Johnson, in remarks prepared for delivery at an Orlando, Fla. shopping center rally, said voters must choose whether to continue present social security plans or leave older citizens "to face a retirement of fear and hopelessness and poverty."
The South will be one of the major battlegrounds during the final week of the campaign for Johnson, his running mate, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, as well as goldwater and GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. William E. Miller.
Goldwater, who attended the late President Herbert C. Hoover's funeral in Cedar Falls, Iowa, yesterday, was scheduled to visit Maryland and Delaware today before going to New York for a huge rally in Madison Square Garden.
More Cars, More Police But Accident Rate Down
More cars plus more police equals fewer accidents.
Chief of KU Police, E. P. Moomau, said there had been 17 accidents on campus this year compared with 29 accidents during the same period last year.
There have been 17 accidents on campus so far this year, compared with 29 accidents during the same period last year, E. P. Moomau, chief of KU police, said.
Last year 12,000 cars were registered on campus for both semesters. To date this year, 8,200 cars have been registered with the KU Traffic and Security office in Hoch Auditorium.
Cooperation with area police forces is also a factor, he said.
Despite this decreasing trend, a rash of accidents resulted the weekend of the KU-Oklahoma football game, October 17. Lawrence police estimated that eight KU students were involved in accidents that weekend amounting to approximately $1200 damages.
The University of Kansas' rifle team won a close victory over at Oklahoma State yesterday, 1264-1259.
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The combined police force was ready for the Oklahoma game with extra police stationed at the weak points shown by the air observation.
During the Wyoming game, Kansas highway patrol aircraft kept in touch with the Lawrence and KU police pointing out bad traffic bottle-necks.
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Every Monday, Chief Moomau attends a meeting with the sheriff, Lawrence police, the highway patrol and other area law agencies to discuss the traffic situation of the preceding week and to make recommendations.
"We hope the decrease in accidents will, continue." Moomau said.
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