University Daily Kansan
Page 10
Monday, Feb. 12, 1962
Eastern Students Are Heading West
By Claire Cox United Press International
NEW YORK—Young men—and women—are going west in increasing numbers for college educations.
They are motivated by crowded conditions in eastern schools,by a growing desire to enroll in coeducational liberal arts colleges and by the wishes of parents who themselves went to school in the west and midwest.
Most of the east's so-called prestige schools are not coeducational. Harvard and Columbia have coordinated their programs with affiliated girls' colleges "across the street," but this is not quite the same as a fully coeducational college. Yale and Princeton accept women graduate students but, in the main, the Ivy League remains for men only while the so-called "seven sisters" among them Vassar and Wellesley, are feminine preserves.
The midwest, on the other hand, has many coeducational schools. Although they have not yet attracted as many eastern students as they would like to have, a wave is slowly rolling west, reports Dr. Sharvy Umbeck, president of Knox College, in Galesburg, Ill.
Knox is one of the smaller (about 1,000 students) liberal arts colleges that has a substantial eastern representation. It also counts a number of westerners among its students. Other colleges are conducting organized campaigns to bring eastern students to their campuses.
Umbeck, during a visit to New York, discussed this trend in an interview. He explained why, despite over-crowding on many campuses, schools in the midwest wanted to attract young people from other parts of the country.
"Most of the colleges feel there is a great value to the students in having regional representation," he said. "It is not so much what the midwestern schools do for the eastern student as what the eastern student does for the schools. The greatest value is in what they bring us.
"They bring to the campus much the same thing that the prophets brought to the Israelites. They bring experience from other cultural groups, giving the other students insights into themselves.
"I am somewhat distressed by the fact that no matter where we draw students from, they all are from the same general socio-economic level. We get mostly young people from middle and upper-middle class homes. I wish we could bring in different groups."
Umbeck described how Knox has overcome one of the inflationary difficulties of "going away" to college, namely, transportation.
A graduate with two children at Knox talked to other parents and alumni about the problem and they chipped in to buy three buses to transport students to and from their home areas. Two of the buses ply
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between New York and Galesburg at the start and finish of the various vacations and holidays through the year. The fare is $15 each way for the 1100-mile ride. The third bus serves students from the St. Louis area.
The school provides the drivers and finances the upkeep of the buses, while the students or their families pay the fares, Umbeck stated.
"The buses eliminate a factor that would prevent many students from coming to Knox," he said. "It does not cost them any more now to travel to and from the midwest than it would to go by other modes of transportation to eastern schools near their homes."
Campus parking has been a problem that the University of Kansas has been pondering for some time. Many suggestions have been made, but none have seemed to fill the need.
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Clayton Keller, Winfield graduate student and assistant managing editor of the University Daily Kansas, perhaps has found the answer to the parking problem behind Flint Hall.
The only problem in Keller's solution is that once he gets parked, he stays parked. As a matter-of-fact he stays parked until a wrecker pulls him out.
Keller's parking place which from now on shall be termed "zone %#" is on a 60 degree incline behind Flint Hall.
Keller has no competition in fighting for a place to park in "zone $%#", except for trees, shrubs and a few gophers that come above ground to bask in the sun.
think this is ideal, Keller has an opposite view. It cost him $10 to have his car pulled up the incline.
"How would you feel," said Keller, "if you were over at the library studying and Art Miller, Pittsburg junior and Kansan reporter, came over and asked you, "Is your car, uh, I mean was your car parked behind Flint?"
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"At first I thought he was joking, but then I decided I'd better come over and check," Keller said, adding in dismay, "I don't know how it happened, but I hope it doesn't again."
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