Americans lack knowledge of Russia
Guest lecturer and Communist party member Vladimir V. Alexandrov will return to Russia to tell his countrymen of the "shocking lack of knowledge Americans have of Russia."
Alexandrov spoke before an assemblage of faculty members and students at Blake Hall, last Monday.
The 37-year-old professor of Russian history at Moscow State University, says Americans also avoid their situation in Viet Nam.
"AMERICANS SAY they want to help people become friends, but in truth their acts are these
of aggression," Prof. Alexandrov said in an interview yesterday.
He blames many of the "false ideas" Americans have about the war on the private monopolies of American newspapers and news agencies. He believes these journalists do not print the truth because they want "to introduce their influence and affect the whole population."
Prof. Alexandrov holds the Russian equivalent of a PhD, in historical sciences and professes a "narrow specialty" in American history. He will return to his wife, a pediatrician, and six-year-old son in early June after
a nine-month guest professorship at Indiana University in Bloomington.
THIS IS Prof. Alexandrov's third trip from Russia since he began teaching 11 years ago. He has also visited India and England under a foreign exchange program.
Punctuating his remarks with unaffected laughter, Prof. Alex-andrev said he hopes to write a book about his observations and impressions of America. He definately plans a book dealing with his project in the United States. "American Scholarship about Lenin."
Prof. Alexandrov sees no surface differences between Soviet and American students."They both show characteristics of being young and study quite a bit," he said.
HOWEVER, THE main difference lies in the "essence of their studies." Russian students base their studying on the teachings of
Lenin and Marx, said the young professor. He is firm in his convictions that the teachings of these two men are the only valid basis for a society.
Mount Oread beautiful campus
By Norma C. Romano
The KU campus, regarded as one of the most beautiful in the Midwest, was considered barren and desolate and often referred to as "The Devil's Backbone" just a century ago.
Ninety years ago a farmer living a mile southwest of Mount Oread had a vision that now materializes every year into a beautiful display east of new Fraser Hall.
IN ITS PRIMITIVE state the hill was not a thing of beauty. It provided a viewpoint from which to observe one of "the most charming landscapes in the world," as attested by one artist and traveler. But the hill itself was a bleak ridge rising abruptly above the level of the confluence of the Kaw and Wakarusa.
It was completely free of trees, and its barren surface was so desolated that travelers passing it a century ago referred to it as "The Devil's Backbone."
During the Civil War, this barren place was selected as the site for the future KU campus. The University opened in September 1866 with a faculty of three and a student enrollment of forty. There was no landscape architect to embellish the campus. The educational processes of KU continued for 12 years without any attempt to beautify the grounds.
IN THE SPRING of 1878, Joseph Savage took the initiative in beginning a landscaping service which has resulted in the present attractive appearance of the campus.
Savage's only connection with KU were his friendship with
Chancellor James Marvin and his daughter, a member of the enrolling class of 1866. Savage was disturbed by the bare aspect of the hill as viewed from his nearby farm. Accordingly, he collected small trees along the Wakarusa and brought in a wagon load.
Later on, Savage had cut and rooted lilac bushes that were growing by his country home. These were planted in a row along the east side of the campus in front of Old Fraser Hall.
FROM THIS beginning, the announcement that "the lilacs are in bloom at KU" takes many Lawrence people up the hill each year for another view of the old hedge.
Because of this, many other groups of lilac bushes have been planted in other parts of the campus—on the lawn of Corbin Hall, in front of Green Hall and by the Military Science Building. In rearranging the drives around the campus in 1937, the Lawrence City Council officially designated the short hedge as "Lilac Lane."
Every spring the lilacs beautify the KU campus with their color and scent, but most people do not realize that behind these flowers there is a name—Joseph Savage.
6 Daily Kansas Thursdoy, April 28, 1966
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