Thursday, March 7, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Prof develops Italian department
By Mary Morrow Kansan Staff Reporter
An Italian professor who set up an Italian language department at Stanford has come to KU to build an Italian department that doesn't have to be connected to the French language to survive.
Vincenzo Traversa, assistant professor of Italian language and literature, became KU's first full-time Italian instructor last fall, according to Ronald Tobin, head of the French and Italian department.
"Traversa is a dynamic individual," Tobin said. If anyone can get an Italian department established at KU, it will be Traversa, he said.
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A former chief consultant to the Ford Foundation on projects on aging, will be the keynote speaker for the 18th annual Conference on Aging at KU March 11-12.
Miss Ollie A. Randall will speak on "Older Persons Are People, Too" at the opening session.
In 1964, Miss Randall received the first award of the National Council on Aging for her "exemplary vision, persevering effort and devotion to the conservation of human resources" and "her inspiration to an entire country whose people are learning how to grow old."
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Before his arrival, KU offered only one course in Italian. Now there are four with plans for more. An advanced Italian curriculum will begin next fall. KU student enrollment in Italian has doubled.
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Traversa likes the informal nature of the administrative process here. Plans get established faster in this kind of environment, he said. Stanford University has a formal administrative process, which tends to make its channels rigid and strict.
"The environment of a university affects its students," he said. Students are more relaxed here and enjoy a good time. At Stanford, the students are concerned with a degree and their whole
concern is the grade, Traversa said.
Traversa, a native of Venice, began teaching at the Nato Language School in Naples.
He arrived in the United States in 1957 and began at U.C.L.A. as a graduate student and an instructor.
New servicemen can get fee rebates,class credit
KU promises a partial, and in some cases, a complete refund of University fees to students who are drafted or enlist in the U.S. military services while enrolled at KU.
Also, the student going into the military is eligible to receive academic credit for the courses he is enrolled in at KU if he is called into the service after the first quarter of the semester.
The refund ruling is outlined in a Kansas Board of Regents directive which is available in the office of Ray Nichols, vice-chancellor of finance, 223 Strong Hall.
Agnes R. Barnhill, assistant registrar, said only about 10 male students have left the University because of military obligations since the beginning of the fall semester.
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