Wednesday, March 20, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Young Brazilians study campus life
By Mary Morrow Kansan Staff Reporter
Five Brazilian student leaders are visiting KU this week. They are from various universities and faculties in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and participants in the International Exchange Program of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The group is accompanied by a state department escort-interpreter, Horst Dorpowski.
The students are interested in governmental agencies, universities and campus life, civil rights and Inter-American economic relations in the U.S. Visits to farms and industries are also part of their itinerary enabling them to observe life in the United States.
The five are: Maria Alice Jaeger, 19, a second year economies student; Darci Gustavo Post, 22, a third year medical student; Gilberto Da Cunha, 26; Aldalero de Souza Pasalotto, 21, and Marcos Flavio Soares, 21, all second year law students.
They arrived Sunday, attended the Kennedy speech Monday and a discussion of U.S. foreign policy with special emphasis on Latin America Monday. Robert Tomasek, associate professor of political science, led the discussion.
The Brazilian students said they favor campus life here, different from their own. The average size of Brazilian universities is about 5,000 students. They do not provide living units for students. A majority of students live with their families and commute to classes.
"Campus life is not enough though; we are more actively involved in politics which helps broaden our outlooks," one of the law students said.
The students said they would like to see Robert Kennedy president, "if he could carry out the promises he made Monday and if he would follow his late brother's policies in Latin America.
Miss Jaeger said the biggest difference between economic study in the United States and in Brazil is "Brazilian students study economic theories and students in the United States are able to study econometrics or measuring the effectiveness of actual theory in practice."
Tuesday the students toured Lawrence and the Law School. A tour of the University Theatre and a visit with the cast of "O Pagador de Promessas," a Brazilian play, concluded the day. Today the group will see the State Capitol Building and meet Gov. Robert B. Docking.
Union speaker will discuss the Latin squatters
William Mangin, chairman of the anthropology department at Syracuse University, will discuss Latin American squatters in a speech at 4:30 Thursday in the Kansas Union Cottonwood-Meadowlark rooms.
Land reform in Latin America has come slower than civil rights legislation in North America. Large land holdings, or latifundios, monopolize most of the best land. These latifundios are often owned by foreign investors.
The program, part of KU's Brazil Month, is sponsored by the KU Center for Latin American Studies and the department of anthro-
Broadway actor Clayton Corbin, speaking Tuesday on "The Actor's Task" for a Theatre Research Colloquium, explained to students how he prepared for his leading role in the University Theatre's current production of "Macbeth."
"I go through calisthenics and put a cork in my mouth just before the show," Corbin said. "The exercise helps me to loosen up and the cork actually improves my diction when I take it out."
200 thinkers here for program
Prof. Richard DeGeorge, chairman of the philosophy department, was chairman for the March 16 session of the national meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America Friday and Saturday at the University of Southern California. He was in charge of the program on "New Aspects of Ontology." About 200 philosophers attended.
"How big a cork should be used?" a student asked.
"That depends on how big a drinker you are," Corbin answered.
Red expert to speak
Edgar Snow, an expert on China who, in 1965, secured the only interview Mao Tse-tung has granted since 1949, will speak on the latest developments in Red and Nationalist China at 7:30 p.m., April 3 at Hoch Auditorium.
Corbin explains acting
The program, sponsored by People-to-People, will include the premiere of Snow's film, "One-Fourth of Humanity."
through several successful performances he might not always feel in character," he said. "An actor is a human and things bother him. I know people say that when you're on stage you should brush everything out of your mind. But you can't always do that. I for one can't always agree with those who believe 'the show must go on.'"
Most of the questions asked Corbin in the discussion were in the area of the creation of a character by the actor.
Snow will also speak at Kansas State.
Corbin told the 50-member audience that each actor must develop his own method of bringing a character to life.
"Even after an actor has gone
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