Travelers Appraise Student Government
By Maury Breecher
By Maury Breecher "Do you as students have any voice in the running of your university?"
"What can you do, as students, if the university is pursuing a policy which the student body opposes?"
SIX SENIOR LAW students from the University of Costa Rica asked these questions of Leo Schrey, Leavenworth senior end student body president, and other student leaders last week.
The questioners spoke little English but were able to communicate their questions with little difficulty through Ricardo Velasco, a State Department interpreter. Velasco and Lewis Tyler, assistant international student advisor, helped channel questions.
SCHREY ANSWERED their questions, which involved KU's student government organization, functions, elective process and financing. He was assisted by David Waxse, Oswego junior, president of People-to-People and Kay Orth, El Dorado junior, chairman of the ASC Hosting and Hospitality Committee.
The men were on a cultural exchange tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Since their arrival in the United States Jan. 20, they have toured Drake University and parts of the East.
A Costa Rican student, R. Montiel, who is a member of his university's student government, explained the Costa Rican system. He pointed out that university students in Latin America have a strong voice in university affairs.
He said each university school or major department elects three student representatives. These representatives meet with the faculty members of their school
to settle any school dispute.
IF THE DISPUTE or question cannot be resolved in this manner, it is brought before the actual governing body of the university. This body is composed of three student representatives from each school and every university faculty member.
About 45 students take part in governing the university according to Montiel. They are outnumbered though, by the more than 400 faculty members.
Thus, in Costa Rica, the student's last appeal is the strike or demonstration which gives them more influence but not total control.
The group of student leaders and Costa Rican students decided the main difference between Costa Rican student government and KU's was the actions made by Costa Rican university student government on affairs not pertaining to the university.
ONE OF THE Costa Rican students brought up the example of the OAS intervention in Santo Domingo in which Costa Rica participated. Immediately, a statement was issued in the name of the University of Costa Rica's student body denouncing the action. Yet, a significant number of Costa Rican students supported the government action and felt compelled to issue a statement in support of the government.
The KU group agreed that it would be unthinkable for the ASC to take such actions.
Daily Kansan 11
Wednesday, February 16, 1966
The addition of a new General Electric 625 computer in July or August will give KU the largest computer complex in the Big Eight area.
Hill Gets Biggest 'Brain'
HOWEVER, IT has a 40,000-word magnetic core memory with an access speed of two words in two-millionths of a second. This is more than twice the memory and eight times the speed of the IBM 7040 installed last summer, which the 625 will replace.
The 625, expected to arrive this month, was not shipped earlier because of a lack of parts at the G.E. center, said R. G. Hetherington, associate professor of math and Computation Center director. He said the 625, which KU will rent for about $20,000 a month, is one of the smaller models of the G.E. 600 line.
The new computer will occupy the greatest space of the 52 by 26 foot computer room, and three of the four systems now present
will be moved. Computers are used 55 per cent of the time for research by KU departments and 45 per cent of the time as a teaching aid by faculty. This is significant because it has presented an increased demand at the center, Hetherington said.
THE COMPUTER service seems very expensive at the given price of $150 an hour for using the 7040, plus $50 an hour for programming the material for the machine. However, the average length of operation is three minutes with 90 per cent of all projects running less than 10 minutes. The center handles approximately 10,000 programs a month.
History Repeated
The registrar's office in 1950 urged students to enroll as soon as possible to be assured of a student deferment, when draft calls were increased due to the Korean war.
Twenty eight students are employed part time at the center to meet this demand. This presents quite a change since Prof. Hetherington came to KU in 1961 when only one student was employed. Besides working with the programming, students train anyone interested in learning to operate the machines. So great is the demand for student help that many of those trained find jobs with the Computation Center.
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