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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 2,1963
(Photo by Lacy Banks)
WESCOE SIGNS—Joining two universities by an agreement for cultural exchange, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe signs the document that will continue the Junior Year Abroad program.
Small World
KU. Costa Rica Joined
The world is shrinking; people are growing closer as communications advance and KU made a contribution to that process Sunday when it formally acknowledged a five-year cultural exchange program with Costa Rica.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Rector Alfaro, on the University of Costa Rica campus, simultaneously signed duplicate documents at 5:30 p.m. An audience of about 110 locked on at KU.
The 15-minute program at KU was carried on in Spanish and in English. Assistant Dean Thomas Gale, KU Peace Corps director for Costa Rica, and George R. Waggoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, shared the program with Chancellor Wescoe.
Assistant Dean Gale spoke in Spanish as he welcomed the audience and introduced his counterparts. Spanish was welcomed as the audience included delegates of a Latin American educational seminar held here.
THE AGREEMENT CAN be renewed for five-year periods indefinitely. The copy will be preserved in KU's archives located in Watson Library.
"During the life of this program more than 60 KU students . . have enjoyed their junior year abroad at the University of Costa Rica." Chancellor Wescoe said.
"The University has completed a successful Peace Corps project there; and visits have been exchanged at the administration level," he said.
Foreign Students' Problems Studied at P-t-P Conference
About 60 students representing various People-to-People clubs in the Midwest region attended a conference last Saturday in the Kansas Union.
ALI HASSAN, undergraduate from India, felt that the way a foreign student is accepted depends not only on his racial and social status but upon the American himself and the environment that he is given for exposure. Many foreign students come here expecting to be fully accepted into the American community.
Hassan praised the P-t-P "brother-sister program" because he was able to make a very good American friend. "My American brother was a tremendous help to me and I found no traces of phoniness in him. He recently got married and I was the best man."
Lance Burr, Salina senior, president of KU's People-to-People, said the meeting was successful in getting ideas for improvement and owed much of its success to the foreign students who spoke in the morning panel discussion, the first event of the day-long program.
The panel discussion concerned the problems that foreign students face adjusting to American college life. The participants included the students and Assistant Dean Clark Coan, advisor for international students.
MANY FOREIGN students make it hard for others to communicate with by living in small groups," Hassan said. "This leads to a lot of trouble in communications."
"Americans tend to treat the foreign students like a group and their responses are all mechanized in a how-to-treat-a-foreign-student attitude," Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika senior and president of the International Club, said. "The African student that
comes here is expected to be the son of a chief, but my father never was."
"I DIDN'T KNOW how to get a pop out of a machine either, because I wasn't sure about the operation. I was very shy about talking to Americans and asking them for help because I thought that I would be a bother," Yusuke Kawarbayashi, Japanese graduate student, said.
He said if a new foreign student were assigned to an American student to guide him and to help dial the phone or get a pop from a machine, this would be a great help.
about what to expect while being a student in America and the formation of an intramural basketball team.
The proposals derived in discussion groups were the establishment of a summer program of communicating with the foreign students and informing them more thoroughly
THE HIGHLIGHT of the evening half of the program was a dinner where Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe spoke. P-t-P National Director L. P. Cookingham was also present.
"One reason why I agree that the People-to-People organization is one of the best is because it is run by those to whom the present belongs and by whom the future is being made." Chancellor Wescoe said.
After the dinner, the P-t-P conference delegates were guests of the International Club and the KU P-t-P group for a party in the Kansas Union's Big Eight Room.
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