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Seminar Will Help Educational Goals
Nineteen Latin American university officials are still attending a KU seminar to conduct a preliminary research project on the educational standards in the Americas.
Prof. Feland L. Meadows, visiting professor from the University of California at Berkeley, and associate director of the seminar group, said the project will lead to a handbook encouraging higher educational standards in the Americas. He has spent the last nine months in Costa Rica on a Ford Fellowship grant doing investigative research on general education.
"It is a two-way program." Prof. Meadows continued, not merely an analysis of the American university system. He explained the Latin American professors hope to publish a handbook with a sound universal, educational philosophy of educational methods and processes.
Prof. Meadows said the seminar, sponsored by the National Academy of Science at Washington in conjunction with the State Department, is to give every educator an opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss mutual problems.
AFTER THE seminar, each of the delegates will write on three subjects. Prof. Meadows said, and later in the year, the same educators will meet in Costa Rica to combine their findings.
"An editorial committee will combine and edit the research papers into one book, and distribute copies throughout the entire hemisphere," added Prof. Meadows.
Prof. Meadows said the first area of composition is a liberal one; that the professors may choose to write on "their area of interest within the spectrum of the role of the university," the university in relationship to the state or general problems of the university including the faculty, students, or curriculum.
Prof. Meadows said the second series of papers will be entitled "Use of the Basic Disciplines in the Education of the Professions," and the final subject will be a case history of each professor's individual university.
Prof. John De Abate, assistant dean of students at the University of Costa Rica, said "one of the specific objectives is to study new developments and trends in the first two years of college education."
PROF. ABATE explained the Costa Rican students do two years of liberal arts work and three years on their major subjects. The regular academic year lasts nine months.
Prof. Abate feels the discussion
phase of the seminar is valuable in that it offers a chance to "exchange ideas with our colleagues in the United States and other Latin American countries."
He said he is looking for "practical results, so that we can better the education we are giving our students."
Dr. Mariano Coronado, head of the department of welfare and counseling at the University of Costa Rica (assistant dean of students), said he found it interesting to compare small private colleges to the larger state universities.
PROF. CORONADO said there are 4,600 students at the University of Costa Rica and that two types of schools give more flexibility to education in the country. He said also he feels the seminar is serving to create much better international relations throughout the Americas.
The seminar is the fourth of its kind, the others having been held once at the University of Chicago, and twice at the University of Colorado.
Ferguson Speaks At YR Meeting
KU Young Republicans will celebrate Lincoln Day with a meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in the Jayhawker Room of the Kansas Union.
William Ferguson, Kansas attorney general, will speak on "The Kansas Republican Party — Where It Has Been and Where It Is Going."
Election of a treasurer for the club will be held at a business meeting following Ferguson's talk. John Grothusen, Heswell junior, resigned as Young Republican treasurer recently to assume duties in Sen. James B. Pearson's office in Washington.
Reuben McCormack, Young Republican president, said a committee will be appointed to conduct a poll of Kansas state colleges and universities for students feeling on the Wichita University issue.
SUA To Hold Interviews
The SUA will conduct interviews next week for the chairman and sub-chairman of the program committee for the second spring concert. Peter, Paul, and Mary, noted folk singers will appear. Applications for the posts may be picked up this week in the SUA office in the Kansas Union.
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Jacob H. Beuscher, professor of agricultural law, will speak on "Agrarian Reform in Latin America: Problems and Prospects" at 4:30 this afternoon in Fraser Theater.
The Wisconsin professor is presenting the third in a series of lectures on Latin America sponsored by the KU Center of Latin American Studies.
Poetry Hour Thursday
Harold Orel, professor of English,
will discuss Thomas Hardy at the
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in the Music Room of the Kansas
Union.
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Weather Delays Launching
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — Stormy weather today threatened plans to launch America's most unusual communications satellite into orbit around earth shortly after midnight tonight.
The satellite is a 150-pound electronic marvel called "Syncom." Its goal is an orbit so high that it will seem to hang in the sky in one spot.
Scientists hoped to shoot Syncom into space aboard a reliable Delta rocket during a "launching window"
of about one hour, starting at 12:01 a.m. EST tomorrow — unless unforeseen troubles set in.
The major difficulty today was a wave of thunderstorms sweeping across the Florida peninsula.
Syncom is a first cousin to earlier communications satellites such as Telstar and Relay. The new model will be able to handle radio, telephone and teletype transmissions, but it will be unable to relay television programs.
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