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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, May 1, 1963
Bucky' Thompson Takes Key in Stride
By Jackie Helstrom
This year seven students were awarded the Phi Beta Kappa key in their junior year. One of these was Frank W. Thompson Jr., from Iola, better known as Bucky.
What does the coveted key mean to him?
"I never worked for a Phi Beta Kappa key." Thompson said. "I don't think what I have done to get it has made my college career any different than it would have been."
HE ALSO said he is sure this is the position taken by most of the winners of the key. Five of the seven juniors who won it this year are personal friends of his and he said he knows that they think as he does.
Thompson has some definite ideas on how he feels he can get the most out of his education.
HE SAID that he came back to school the next year he had a different idea on the way he wanted to go to school.
"When I was a freshman I participated in only a few real activities, spending 10 to 12 hours a day studying" he said.
"You can learn as much or more from the things you do outside of classwork," he said.
"That is the reason I don't think students should spend their summers doing nothing but going to summer school here at KU," he continued.
He explained that summer school could be beneficial, if attended at another school.
He said it is not much more expensive to study in Europe for the summer, and the experience of being there is invaluable.
"I SPENT ONE SUMMER in Europe in the Summer Language Institute and probably learned more than I had ever learned in my life," Thompson said.
He explained that during the summer he had lived with a German family in a small town outside of Munich, instead of having an American roommate.
The summer before he said he worked in Aspen, Colo., as a "ski bum," doing things like going out to dig potatoes for 10 cents an hour just to get to know people better.
THOMPSON ALSO has a unique way of making sure he's taking the courses that he wants to take.
"I always intentionally enroll in more hours than I plan to carry," he said. "That way I can drop out of some when I decide which I definitely want to take."
He also adds other courses as late as six or eight weeks after the beginning of the semester.
THIS SEMESTER he brought his number of hours up to 24 by adding a course after he heard the lecture one day as he was passing the room and decided to sit in.
However, Thompson said that he feels the most valuable part of his education is his own private reading.
In addition to reading the Sunday New York Times and Time magazine
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he tries to read about a book a week usually a contemporary work by a political figure.
"When I was in Germany I picked up quite a few books in the little bookstores that are on every corner. I keep up with my German by reading these," he said.
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He said he would like to go back to Europe for graduate study in philosophy or economics. Or he might get a law degree and eventually teach in a law school.
THOMPSON FEELS that his future will be connected with school for quite a while, but he is not sure what his exact course of study will be.
"If I were teaching it would give me time to write and to study; and lawyers, especially law teachers, have more political influence than any other group," he said.
"BUT WHATEVER I do, I don't want to get a job that I will spend the rest of my life in. I don't want to narrow myself down any more than I have to." Thompson said.
He said he feels that education should not merely be a ladder to economic success, but a way to make life more meaningful.
In the future, the nation will not be able to afford a 40-hour work week, he said. This will mean more free time for every individual, and it is through education that Thompson feels a person can learn to know himself and find a meaningful way to spend free time.
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"People would find their time an inhuman torture if they had nothing they liked to do." Thompson said.
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