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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 16, 1965
Soviet Scholar Says Experts Must Break Intellectual Wall
The concept of 'Kremlin Wall' has too long delimited political science in the Soviet Area.
Professor Robert S. Sharlet, University of Missouri political science professor, made this comment last Friday in his talk: "Beyond the Institute and Over the Kremlin Wall: Kremlinologists and Comparatists."
In his plea, Prof. Sharlet said, "Kremlinologists must break away from narrow confines and should begin seeking and forging new intellectual alliances beyond the traditional triad of political science, history and political ideas."
PROF. SHARLET studied at the Juridical Faculty of Moscow University last year as an American exchange scholar. He received his graduate training in the Department of Political Science and the Russian and East European Institute of Indiana University.
Kremlinologists have been confining themselves to the narrow field of Soviet ideology and decision-making process, in trying to explain the Soviet society, he said.
"We must overlap the 'Kremlin Wall' and begin a serious study of
IN HIS DENOUNCEMENT of the communication media in the U.S., which according to him exposed its ignorance of the Soviet system, during and after Khrushchev's fall. Prof. Sharlet said, "These so called 'Soviet experts' based their evidence from the 'typographical errors' in Pravda and from interviews at the glittering cocktail parties in various embassies."
the 'Soviet society' itself.' There has to be a shift from the study of 'decision making' to the study of 'policy implementation' and 'legal regulation,' he said.
Explaining his theory, Prof. Sharlet said, "The Kremlinologists have tended to take one single institution like the Communist party, from its beginning to the modern day, and later use this to come to the conclusion that this is the decision-making system in the Soviet Union. Their knowledge of the Soviet System has come up only to the 19th century.
"Later they started using some of the rules of the Communist party, several rules of the Soviet Constitution and from this decided that
this is the structure and function of the modern Soviet society. But again they have come up only up to the 1880's."
IN THE MODERN approach, he said, it is essential to start from the bottom, that is to go directly into the Soviet Society itself and then work up to the 'State' and the 'Party.'
"When we begin to study the 'policy implementation,' that is the 'Society,' we have a great wealth of materials that are not only readily available but are also verifiable," he said.
Prof. Sharlet continued, "The 'State' apparatus and the 'implementation policy' are observable and verifiable. In fact, the Soviet government is using various methods to popularize them."
The rise of Stalin brought a halt to the process of the withering away of the state, Prof. Sharlet said.
Prof. Sharlet added that Stalin knew that once the industrialization of Russia was achieved, the withering away of the state would once again begin.
On Cultural Exchange
Yugoslavian Actors Visit Campus
KU will be the home of six Yugoslav drama students and their instructor for the next month.
The group, three men and three women, arrived here late Wednesday night after a 20-hour journey by air from Belgrade.
Predacl Bajetic, instructor at the Theatre Academy of Belgrade, said the group was here as part of the Eastern European Cultural Exchange program through the State Department.
"It's all very official," he said, "but we regard ourselves as being here on a friendly basis."
BAJCETIC SAID the first contact with KU was made through the International Theatre Institute, an organization affiliated with UNESCO.
The visiting students are all studying at the Theatre Academy of Belgrade, one of the three state theatre schools in Yugoslavia.
The oldest of the students, Petar Kralj, 24, from Belgrade, has finished his training and only has to pass his examinations before being a fully fledged professional.
OTHERS IN THE group are 21-year-old Slobodan Djuric from Bos-
na, a third-year student, dark-haired Jelisaveta Sablic from Belgrade, and Neda Spasojevic from Montenegro, also a third-year student.
The two students in their final year are Zafir Hadzimanov and red-haired, Zdravka Krstulovic.
All the students have done "gymnasium," the European equivalent to high school and two years of college. After this training they went to the
Theatre Academy which has a four-year course.
HIS ACADEMY HAS several branches such as drama, dance, and decorative art. The students concentrate on the Yugoslav repertoire the first two years and then go on to the Russian, American and other international repertoire.
AT KU THE GROUP is staying at Hashinger and Eldsworth.
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Frederick Whitehead, Pratt senior, plans to study for a Ph.D. in English at either the University of California at Berkeley or the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A KU senior is one of 104 national winners of Danforth fellowships, which are probably one of the nation's most valuable awards.
"I was quite surprised with the award. It's a great honor and I certainly had not expected it," Whitehead said.
Last week Whitehead was announced as being one of 15 KU seniors who had won Woodrow Wilson fellowships. These fellowships are for one year of graduate study. The Danforth fellowships provide both tuition and living expenses for four years of graduate study.
Whitehead is the ninth KU senior to receive a Danforth fellowship in the past five years.
Does Whitehead have any special "trick" he uses in studying? He says he uses the usual study method. He reads the assignments and then reviews.
The 104 national winners were chosen from 1265 candidates nominated by more than 500 colleges. They are awarded on the basis of "intellectual promise, personality congenial to the classroom, integrity, genuine interest in religion, and high potential for effective college teaching."
The Danforth Fellowship program was established in 1951.
These 104 national winners jom 474 others now in graduate study Two hundred and sixty-six more are already teaching in 130 colleges in the United States and 21 institutions abroad.
Danforth fellows are nominated by liaison officers appointed by the president of each accredited college. A Reading Committee reviews the applications and selects candidates to be interviewed. The final
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