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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 12, 1965
Inevitable Questions Confront Foreign Prof
By Harihar Krishnan
When an American meets a foreigner in his country his bubbling hospitality spontaneously brings out two particular questions he cannot help asking of the newcomer, "How do you like it here?" and "Would you like to stay here?" In this situation, Prof. Pierre de-
In this situation, Prof. Pierre deBie, visiting professor from Belgium in the department of Sociology, said the visitor better be prepared to respond to these questions exactly in the way the kind inquirer anticipates.
Beacon Will Lure Future Moon Probe
HOUSTON, Tex. —(UPI)— The moon is going to get its first traffic beacon within the next two years or so. And on it may well hinge the safety and success of America's first manned lunar expedition.
Beacons have been used for years to guide ships to safe harbors and airplanes to the security of landing fields. The new "space beacon", however, will probably be the most exciting and certainly the most expensive ever installed.
THE UNITED STATES will spend several million dollars to anchor it to the alien surface of the moon.
The first moonbound U.S. Astronauts will use it to zero in on and guide themselves to a safe lunar landing field.
Just exactly what the beacon will look like and how it will operate has yet to be decided. The Hughes Space Systems Division of El Segundo, Calif., has just signed a $24-819 contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to come up with some ideas.
BUT NASA ALREADY has determined that the beacon, officially a "lunar surface marker," will be transported from earth to the moon about three years in advance of the first manned lunar landing.
Otherwise, if the answers are, "I don't" and "No" respectively, the chances are the conversation may cease.
Humorously commenting on this Prof. deBie related an experience when he was once travelling from Rome to Athens by plane an American happened to be on board. On being told that he had visited the United States several times, the friendly American asked Prof. deBie the usual questions. Prof. deBie, in all sincerity, answered that he liked the country very much but that he had no intentions of staying there. After this the professor discovered, to his surprise, there ensued hardly any further conversation between them.
DR. E. Jackson Baur, professor in the Sociology department, said this is the first time KU has received a visiting professor from abroad under the sponsorship of N.A.T.O.
Prof. deBie, who arrived here on Sunday, is not a stranger to this country. He has visited here several times and attended the World Congress of Sociology in Washington in 1962. He has fond memories of Chicago for it was there he learned to speak and write English.
He has been associated with the UNESCO in Paris, as a member of its Social Science department, and also has been the Executive Secretary General of the International Sociological Association.
HE HOLDS doctorate degrees in Philosophy and in Law. All his education was in Belgium. He heads the Department of Sociology at the University of Louvain and is also the director of the Sociological Research Institute there.
Prof. deBie is one of four professors who have come abroad
under the NATO program. The others are from Denmark, Italy and Turkey. He will be teaching groups and associations and conducting the graduate school's Comparative Seminar in Cultural Minorities and Social Satisfactions. In this field he will concentrate on the issues of the Canadian Case, the Belgian Case and the Swiss Case, dealing with the influence of the French language and that of bi-culturalism in these nations.
When asked about the problems of Canada over the issue of Quebec succeeding, Prof. deBie said, "the problem is real and it has to be recognized. I agree that this poses a threat to the Federation but at the same time the demands of Federation for the Liberation of Quebec have to be given consideration. I look at the problem from the sociologist's point of view and therefore, I cannot comment on the political side of the issue," he said.
ON THE QUESTION of France's
role in the affairs of Canada, he said,
"France has been involved in this problem; they have been sending newspaper and other materials. But on the whole they have remained prudent."
Prof. deBiE feels that more cultural exchanges between the nations of NATO will help to strengthen the alliance. The member nations
must try to understand the social problems of the different nations and should not waste their efforts in building more and more armaments, he said.
The KU campus, he said, provides him with a type of environment which he likes very much He hopes to be here till Easter when he will return to his country
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