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McNown, Family Visit Nigerian University
McNown is there as a Ford Foundation consultant on engineering education. His task is three-fold. He is to observe the system of engineering education, to study the current and future needs in engineering practice, and to prepare a plan for engineering education which reflects the characteristics of the student, the pattern of education and the development of the country.
John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and architecture, and his family, are spending most of the Spring semester at the University of Ibadan in the interior of Nigeria.
The University of Ibadan was, until recently, allied with the University of London. McNown says it has an attractive and modern campus and is considered one of the really good small universities founded by Britain in East and West Africa.
He believes Nigeria, with 40 million people and a rapidly developing agrarian economy, might set the pattern for mid-Africa.
Only about a third of the university staff were Nigerians when the British granted independence.
The British ties created a downgrading of American education, McNown writes. "Nigerians literally
KU Summer Courses Offered to Teachers
KU will offer two driver education courses and a first aid course for teachers during the summer.
Basic driver education will be offered June 10-July 20, advanced driver education will be July 22-August 2, and first aid will be offered from June 10-August 2.
The All State Foundation grant will provide a limited number of scholarships for the courses. A scholarship will cover tuition, books, supplies and campus privilege fees.
must come to the United States before they learn that we too have high quality education."
With McNown at the university are his wife Miriam; his son Bob, a KU freshman; his daughter Cynthia, a Lawrence High student; and his infant son, Mark. The McNowns' oldest son, Steve, already was taking a junior-year-abroad at the University of Ibadan.
"The heat is something." McNown writes. "Highs range from 88 to 96, so far, with high humidity and only a few nights below 72. We have slowed down to a much different pace."
Russia Launches NewEarthSatellite
MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Soviet Union today launched another unmanned earth satellite to gather space data for future manned flights.
The official Tass News Agency said the Sputnik, "Cosmos 13," was set off at 2:54 p.m. (6:54 a.m. EST). It was the first Soviet satellite launched this year.
The announced purpose of the series is to gather space information for use in flights by man into orbit. Cosmos 12 was hurled into space last Dec. 22.
Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced the Cosmos series of unmanned satellites during a Kremlin speech in March, 1962.
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Vox Assembly Meets Tonight
Vox Populi's general assembly will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
Roger Wilson, Wichita senior and Vox President, said he was trying to arrange for student body vice-president George Halm. Scotch Plains, N.J., senior, to discuss this year's All Student Council committees at the meeting.
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KEOKUK, Iowa — (UPI) — Robert Dunn was smoking a cigarette yesterday when his car hit a bump and a five-gallon can of gasoline spilled on the floor. The car was wrecked by an explosion, but Dunn jumped out uninjured.
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Chaucer Lecture Scheduled March 27
"Chaucer as a Poet" will be the subject of a lecture by Prof. Charles L. Wrenn, this semester's Rose Morgan visiting professor.
Wrenn will lecture at 4 p.m. March 27 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
A professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, England, since 1946, he is teaching in the English Department this semester. He teaches a course
on "Beowulf," a course on Middle English, and an undergraduate honors seminar on Chaucer.
Last semester, Wrenn was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois.
The British philologist and literary historian will emphasize Chaucer's poetry, he said.
He plans to return to Oxford this summer to lecture, he said.
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