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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1964
Germans
Few students graduate from KU in three years and even fewer spend a year or more in a foreign country living with a Russian.
One person who is doing both is Carl Beck, a 1961 KU graduate who is spending the year studying in Germany on the Fulbright grant.
Beck spent two summers in school in order to graduate a year early. He majored in German.
When he arrived in Germany, Beck said in a letter to J. A. Burzle, chairman of the German department, "I made two trips to Stuttgart to report in and check on living accommodations. I was really surprised at how well things had been arranged for me.
"This happy experience also occurred right in the middle of the oral part of the German Entrance Exam."
"The Auslandsamt here is very efficient and when I informed them I was from KU as Stipendiat they snapped to attention as if I were an army officer.
"A fantastic mistake turned out to be really the opportunity of a lifetime," he said.
In addition to getting an inexpensive room in the town of Stuttgart, Beck had a mistake turn into an unusual experience.
"When I first arrived, the whole Studentenbeum (student section) was buzzing over the report that in room 1308 an American and a Russian were to live together. Three days later my roommate, Wladimir Terechow, arrived — direct from Moscow!" Beck said.
Beck said he and his Russian roommate got along very well although they disagreed a good part of the time.
"He walked beside me in a very moving silent march, staged by the students, the Monday following the death of President Kennedy. And I celebrated with him and several of his Russian immigrant friends on Russian Constitution Day. I'll begin Russian next semester."
3 Terms for Sheriffs?
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The House State Affairs Committee yesterday approved a proposed Constitutional amendment that would remove the two-term limitation from county sheriffs.
The vote was 15-1 in favor of the amendment after testimony from Rep. R. V. (Tex) Schrewder, R-Ashland, one of the sponsors of the measure.
Shrewder testified a Kansas sheriff hardly has time to fully train himself in law enforcement before his four years are up and he must leave office.
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"Buzz" as
Beck said the experience of having a Russian roommate was very enlightening because it proved to him that "oo-existence in its trust form is not only possible but mutually profitable". His roommate is working in research under a professor in Stuttgart and is one of nine exchanges between the Bundesrepublik and the USSR. Terechow does not belong to the Communist Party, he said, because he does not have time. He is in agreement with most of its policies, however, he said.
In discussing his studies in Germany, he said his German courses at KU have helped his advancement in the German language.
"I was able to understand pretty well all of the lectures provided by the Fulbright Commission on the boat but my ability to express myself was quite primitive."
Beck said he hopes to further his cultural education by hitchhiking from Berlin to Norway, Sweden and Denmark in March. In April he intends to study in France.
"I have decided to do that instead of a mad trip through the rest of Europe because I've found that when one doesn't know the language or much of the cultural background of
Student Leader Cites Weakness
A Campus Crusade for Christ representative, addressing a leadership prayer breakfast here Sunday, said spiritual weakness is the cause of many of today's problems.
He was Swede Anderson, who spoke to 400 student leaders from KU and other universities.
Other speakers were Gov. John Anderson Jr.; Rep. William H. Avery; and Merle Gates, state chairman of the Collegiate Young Republicans.
Avery is an announced candidate for the Kansas governorship.
The breakfast was sponsored by the State Student Leadership Committee headed by Reuben McCornack. Abilene senior and KU student body president.
Alum Rooms With Russian
The meeting is a collegiate counterpart of the presidential and governor's prayer breakfasts, McCornack said.
a country, he could get about as much out of reading a book or seeing a film as rushing through as a camera-crazy tourist. I think I'd make better use of my time attempting a deeper stab in the French culture."
in Europe. He wants to study there but said he may come back to the United States.
Beck is planning to enter medical school and hopes to start his studies
He said although he has had a relatively easy time since he arrived, he has had trouble with the language and the hundreds of new customs. Many times he was looked down upon because of his different
manner of dress and strange way of pronouncing German. he said. He also said he was lonely.
"Moreover, I consider myself emotionally well-prepared to handle such foreign experience. I can truthfully say that I'm happy to be here and wouldn't trade it for anything," he said.
THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE
presents
"THE CORN IS GREEN"
by Emlyn Williams
WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
8:15 P.M.
MURPHY HALL
Tickets are available at the University Theatre box office, Maupintour, Bell's Music Co., Kansas Union ticket center, and Raney Drug Stores downtown Plaza Hillcrest.
$2.40, $1.80, $1.20 Student I.D. — free
Phone UN 4-3982 for 24-hour reservation service.
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