Costa Rica Intrigues Juniors
By Corinne Newberry
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"What a fantastic experience to become part of a strange people who live according to different customs and who speak a different language," writes Debby Cole, KU junior and member of the university's junior year in Costa Rica program.
Miss Cole and seven other KU juniors left last February for an academic year of study, travel and lodging in private Costa Rican homes as the fifth group in an exchange program between KU and the University of Costa Rica. They will return in December.
THE STUDY ABROAD program is open each year to students who have completed three semesters of college work and have the equivalent of at least 16 semester hours of Spanish. They enroll in regular courses at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose, and any credit earned is automatically transferred to KU.
Other members of the current program include Nancy Hann of California, Vicki Gillespie of Indianola, Iowa, Earle Ellis of Upper Darby, Penn., Charles Kock of Wichita, Dan Peterson of Lindsborg, Wayne Price of Bethel, and Rick Bowman of Merriam. Faculty directors for the group are Professor and Mrs. Domingo Ricart.
Dean Francis Heller, associate dean of liberal arts and director of the study abroad program, said, "Actually, KU's relationship with Costa Rica has become a very close, sister-like one. We have grown,
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since 1958, to include a faculty summer program, a Peace Corps project, a variety of consultive arrangements, as well as the Study Abroad Plan for undergraduates. We are also the purchasing agent of textbooks for the University of Costa Rica."
UNLIKE MOST other universities in Latin America, the University of Costa Rica, located in the capital city of San Jose, is a young institution and carefully patterned after its North American counterparts.
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A required program of general and basic studies in the first year is comparable to our own freshman year. A new and highly modern campus surrounds the university.
DAN PETERSON writes in the paper, "One reason for the lack of social life built around the University may be because there is no university housing. All students live off campus, most as permanent residents of San Jose.
While in Costa Rica, the KU students also issue a quarterly newspaper, the "Sunflower," in which they record their personal experiences, views and impressions to send home.
"Another difference," he continues, "is probably related to a lack of textbooks. Students seem to take down every single work a professor says, not lifting their heads the entire fifty minutes. This is understandable when there is no other source, such as a textbook, to which a student can refer."
Students find living in private native homes an especially effective way of understanding the core of Costa Rican life.
"MY FAMILY HERE, that of Jorge Guier, is talkative, happy, festive, and warm-hearted," says Nancy Hann. "The first day in their home they took me right in as a member of the family—a very pleasant feeling for a girl who was a little sick, extremely tired, and very confused at all the changes."
COSTA RICA. located between Nicaragua and Panama, has the reputation of being the stalest of all Latin American countries, and is considered among the most democratic nations in the hemisphere. Its inhabitants, slightly more than a million, have one of the highest standards of literacy.
KU's program with the University of Costa Rica was conceived in 1958 by Dr. Rodrigo Facio, then Rector of the Latin American institution, and Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, then Chancellor of KU. A number of days in Washington, DC., for orientation and lectures concerning Costa Rica precedes the departure for that country.
Students interested in attending the next junior year abroad program may obtain application forms from the office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A limited number of scholarships are available to cover all or part of the travel expenses of qualified students. The admissions committee will allocate these grants in accordance with merit and need.
ASC Teaches Frosh How To Be Leaders
A six weeks training session for freshman leaders is being offered by the All Student Council Freshman Leadership Committee.
The seminar type workshop will feature talks by professional people and faculty members in the fields of public relations, organization, parliamentary procedure, budgets and finances, and group dynamics.
Following the talks, campus leaders will lead discussion groups on the campus application of the principles brought up.
Participants in the program will be selected on the basis of application and interview, George Brenner, Princeton senior and committee chairman, said. Over 125 applications have been received from which about 60 students will be selected.
"One applicant had a list of activities so long that he submitted two pages of photostatic copy listing them along with his application," he said.
"The program is not a prep school for the ASC," Dave Lutton, Bartlesville, Okla. junior and committee member, emphasized. "It is to acquaint freshman with leadership techniques which can be used in any organization. Leaders from a wide variety of campus groups will be assisting in the program."
The committee, which was created by the ASC last spring, will hold its first workshop in the last week in October. The program will be completed before Christmas vacation.
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