SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No. 9
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, July 10, 1962
KU AMBASSADORS—KU students at the German summer institute in Holzkirchen, Germany are pictured above. Thirty-four students are
participating in the program, now in its second year. The group will attend classes and take tours of Germany, returning in August.
KU Students Tour Germany As 'Unofficial Ambassadors'
With each passing year the University of Kansas increasingly enters into the world picture. Just recently KU and the Peace Corps entered into a contract for an educational program in Costa Rica.
For several years, KU has been exchanging students with other universities of the world. J. A Burzle, KU professor of German, has been the KU head of a German summer institute held in Germany for several years.
YET TO MOST KU students the exchanges are an abstract thing. They know the exchanges exist, but are usually unaware of just what goes on other than the classes.
Let's look at a sample foreign study program — the one at Holzkirchen, Germany. Thirty-four KU students are participating in the program.
They left KU in early June, gathering at Idlewild airport in New York. There they boarded the plane which six and one-half hours later touched down in Brussels, Belgium.
ODDLY ENOUGH, considering the miserable spring rains all over Europe, the sun was shining when they landed. A few of the natives remarked that the KU students must have brought the Kansas sunshine to Europe.
This might very well have been the case since Kansas was experiencing some cool and rainy days itself during the early part of June.
The students went through passport inspections and customs, then boarded a bus to Aachen. They visited the World War II American cemetery, with its thousands of white crosses. In the words of Prof. Burzle, it was "a somber reminder of the recent past."
AT AACHEN the students checked into their hotel and went to see Aachen Cathedral, built in the ninth Century, the treasury of precious religious art objects and Charlemagne's throne. That evening, the students were given funds and ventured forth to restaurants of their
own choosing to try out the phrases they had learned in the conversation classes at KU.
The next day they boarded the bus to Cologne, where the city fathers had invited them to be guests of the city on a sight-seeing tour. They visited the famous Gothic Cathedral and the Roman ruins discovered under the ruins of WWII. As guests of the University of Cologne and the Federal German Government, the students were invited to dinner at a typical Cologne tavern.
That afternoon the students arrived in Bonn. There, they attended a reception where they were introduced to German students and representatives of the German government. The cultural attache from the American embassy at Bonn spoke to the students, urging them to remember that they were unofficial ambassadors of the United States government and that they could do more for friendly international relations that high government officers, since they were going to be sharing the German people's
homes and lives for two months.
EARLY NEXT morning, they visited the Beethoven house. That evening they were entertained by another university, the University of Mainz.
The next day, they visited the Mainz Cathedral, and continued on to Frankfurt where they visited the house in which the great German writer and poet, Goethe, was born and lived. They then traveled on the Autobahn, one of Germany's famour four-lane highways, to Heidelberg. The evening was free, and once again most of the students headed for the restaurants.
Then they started on the final leg of the trip to Holzkirchen, stopping by several medieval towns on the way. At Holzkirchen, the students were met by representatives of the Bavarian government, the mayor of the city, and other town dignitaries. The 34 students then met their respective hosts and settled down for a long summer's study, coupled of course with sight-seeing tours on weekends.
Campus Activities
Today
1-2 p.m., 7:30-9 p.m. Men's swimming, Robinson Pool
4-6 p.m., 7:30-9 p.m. Women's swimming, Robinson Pool
Tomorrow
3:30 p.m. Film Features, "Animal Farm" (color), 3 Bailey Hall 8-9 p.m., Trail Room Dance, Union, informal dress, dance band 1-2 p.m., 7:30-9 p.M. Women's swimming, Robinson Pool
4-6 p.m.. 7:30-9 p.m. Men's swimming, Robinson Pool
1-2 p.m., 7:30-9 p.m., Men's swimming
Thursday
4-6 p.m., 7:30-9 p.m., Women's swimming, Robinson Pool
5:15 p.m., Intramural softball, Haworth vs. Betas, field seven, Lindley
Oilers vs."2" Marks, field eight
4-6 p.m. 7:30-9 p.m. Women's swimming, Robinson Pool
Oilers vs. "?" Marks, field eight 6:30 p.m., Faculty Club, hosts: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Moreau and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wogstaff
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wagstaff 8-9:30 p.m., Klaus Pringsheim, Pan American Room, Kansas Union 8 p.m., "The Insect Comedy," University Theatre, Murphy Hall
Insect Comedy Starts Thursday
The game of love, amassing of fortunes, social irresponsibility, family pride, totalitarianism in government, and man's ways of settling disputes are microscopically examined in "The Insect Comedy," which starts Thursday at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre.
The production, the first under the Midwestern Music and Art Camp Theatre Division has a cast of 49. It is directed by Jed Davis, assistant professor of speech and drama.
SUA Activities Going Real Well This Summer
The University of Kansas' first summer Student Union Activities program has been "highly successful" according to Chuck Burin, Imperial, Pa., senior and chairman of the Summer SUA Board.
"We have accomplished everything we had started out to do," reports Burin.
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL portion of the program has been the SUA's Friday night film series. The re-released Hollywood films played to packed houses at two showings in the Forum Room before being moved to the Union Ballroom Friday where only one showing was held.
"The ballroom is much better." Burin said. "It's easier to see the screen, the acoustics are better and it can accommodate more people. The air-conditioning is much better in the ballroom too. The previewers say that it is cold in there."
Friday night, "Stalag 17" starring William Holden and Don Taylor is the featured movie. The SUA Board will serve free cokes.
TONIGHT, THERE will be a ping-pong tournament in the Big Eight Room of the Union. Prizes and trophies are being awarded the winners. Students wishing to enter should sign up at the information desk or in the Jay Bowl.
"There has been a real good sign up so far." Burin said.
There is a billiards tournament planned to start in the next two weeks and there is a possibility of a chess tournament. There will not be a bridge tournament however.
THE TRAIL ROOM Wednesday night dances have not been as good as expected but are "better than during the regular school year," Burin said.
"The music has been real good. The dances are supposed to be mixers, but all we have are couples and quite a few male stags."
The Board has sponsored forums each Thursday at 4 p.m in poetry and current events. There has been one Wednesday night dinner in which a faculty member was guest speaker.
"THE DINNER was quite interesting, although definitely not a success. We believed that the high cost of the dinner ($1.75) hurt the dinner's popularity." Burin said.
"If we have another one, we will reserve one of the rooms off the cafeteria and go through the line so everyone can order and spend what they want."
A basic problem in the program is a lack of manpower. "We have good people to run things but they can't do everything." Burin said. He added that there has been some volunteers since the start of the summer session, but that more are needed.
THE SATIRE in "The Insect Comedy," according to Davis is anything but obscure. It shows the panorama of life as seen through the eyes of a vagrant, who represents the "wonderer" in man — the part time onlooker, the occasional executioner and the eternal evaluator.
The play was written by Josef and Karel Capek and while they do not present an answer to the "insect" qualities of man—they do give food for thought and an admonition for one to draw his own conclusions.
The play is in three acts and a prologue and an epilogue. The prologue takes place in the forest; act one is entitled "The Butterflies," act two, "The Marauders," act three, "The Ants," and the epilogue "Life And Death."
MIKE LOLLIIS is cast in the leading role of "The Vagrant." The assistant director and stage manager is Bruce Owen. The lighting is being handled by Michael Welch, the costumes, Caroline Kriesel, choreography, Daniel Kocher, and makeup, Mike Muckenthaler.
the cast: Robin Huggins, The Professor; Paula Harpster, Apatura Iris; Suzanne Hunt. Apatura Clythia; Bruce evitt. Felix; Comm Clarkson; Victor; Sarah Gillen; Glenn Habsteneb. Rosemary Fleming and Barbara Rackley. Young Butterflies;
Mimi Frink, Chrysalis; Bill Douglas,
Male Beetle; Julie Hausherr, Female
Beetle; Scott Nelson, Strange Beetle;
Judy Poindexter, Larva; Huggins,
Mary Miller; Mike Walsh, Mac-
Crieckett, Donna Dennett, Female Crickett; Diana Dolgoff, Jane Lewis, Bonnie
Biesecker, Pillagers; Jim Herman, Parasite.
Georgane Walker, Blind Ant; Morris,
Dictator; Richard Seaver, Head of
General Staff; Steve Young, Yellow Com-
mander; Burt Allen, Inventor; Biesseer,
Quartermann; Robert Doolittle; Ruberson,
Cattie Doolittle, Wayne Rosemary
Rosemary Green, Bond Salesman; Linn
Kirby and Gina Bikales, Telegraphers;
Liz Bates, Dave Adams and Dolgoff,
Messengers; Jim Malone, Wounded Man;
Bob Rutherford, Peter Lewis,
Lewis; Cindy Holmes, Lettle Palmer,
Irene Ballinger, Mary O'Connell, and
Douglas, Soldiers of the Ant Realm;
Nancy Bishop, Tonette Moeller, Sandra McCullough, Sue Ingersoll, and Joan Bulhard, Moths; Jean McConnell and Wilma McCullough, Danaood cutter; and Fran Farwell, Woman.
32nd All-Star Game Today
The National League is favored to continue their mastery over the American League in the 32nd All-Star game to be played at the new District of Columbia stadium at Washington.
Although the American League holds a 16-14 overall edge the Nationals have won five of the last six games. Only one game has ended in a tie since its inaugural in 1933.
A capacity crowd of 45,015 is expected for the contest which will be broadcast and telecast starting at 11 a.m.
Since the major leagues started the two-game per year plan in 1959 the Nationals have won four out of five.
The two leagues have split in Allstar games held in Washington. The Americans won 8-3 in 1937, and the Nationals 7-3 in 1956.
The National League will start an all-right-handed hitting lineup and expectations are for American League manager Ralph Houk to start a right-hander, either Camilo Pascual of Minnesota, or Jim Bunning of Detroit.