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It just wasn't the day for a rain dance . . .
No one would deny that Kansas weather is unpredictable, but some people carry precaution to extremes. Steve McMahon, St. Louis senior (left), is prepared for any eventuality. Gordy Grow, Washington D.C. senior, doesn't tote a bumbershoot, but he stays close enough to share the shelter in case of a shower.
Exchange prof likes KU
Jacek Fisiak, visiting professor in the department of linguistics, says that students from his native land of Poland and the students of the United States are quite different.
"Students in Poland are much more formal. They usually wear suits and ties or good dresses to class," he said.
"Our educational programs are slightly different from those in the United States, too," he said. "High school and college up to the master's degree level are combined in one program. There is no such thing as a bachelor's degree in Poland."
Fisiak, who is here as part of an exchange program between the University of Poznan and KU, said that seven Polish students, who are also part of the exchange program, will be arriving at the end of March.
"All of these students have completed at least their master's degrees and two of them already have their Ph.D.," he said.
Traveling outside Poland, according to Fisiak, is much less difficult than most Americans think.
"It's harder for me to go outside of the United States for a short period of time than it is to travel outside of Poland." he said.
"I was invited to lecture in Canada for four days," he said, "but I would have had to wait three weeks to receive a re-entry visa to come back into the United States. In Poland, visitors need only wait for two hours to get back into the country."
"Polish authorities are not restrictive at all, except when we apply to visit western countries," Fisiak said. "To Poland, we must have an invitation from the country to visit. If we don't, the big problem is receiving a travel visa from Britain or France."
"The exchange was arranged through my acquaintance with Victor Contoski, a professor of English at KU," he said. "He was
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on a Fulbright professorship to the University of Poznan, and I met him through a group of academic friends."
"Then, I was appointed a Fulbright professor a year later and went to the University of California at Los Angeles," he said. "This allowed us to keep up our friendship, since I did a considerable amount of lecturing throughout the United States."
As part of the exchange program, he said six students from the United States have been sent to the University of Poznan. Fisiak said that there were five undergraduates and one graduate student in the program.
"More students will be exchanged next year," he said. "I believe 10 Polish students will be arriving at KU in September, and then in January about 15 Americans will go to Poznan."
Fisiak said that a few things in Poland which are taken for granted are lacking in the United States.
"For instance, Poznan has quite an extensive public transportation system. Most people here rely on
private transportation in cars. Few people in Poznan own a car; there simply isn't any need to," he said.
"Also," he said, "health services are absolutely free in Poland. Most of us who travel extensively must take out health insurance before we leave."
Fisiak has taught at several universities since receiving his master's degree in 1959. He also worked for the Associated Press in Warsaw from 1956 until 1959 while he was working on his degree.
OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI) — A time bomb was discovered Wednesday in a barracks at the Oakland Army Base, a major shipping point for troops going to Vietnam.
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The Army said the bomb was a $2 \frac{1}{2}$-pound plastic explosive wired to a commercial blasting cap and a timing device.
Time bomb found in army barracks
The device was found about 1:30 p.m. on the third floor of the transient barracks. The area was evacuated and the device disarmed by an Army explosive ordnance detachment from San Francisco.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate gave final congressional approval Wednesday to a $19.4 billion health-education-welfare money bill which President Nixon promised to sign after vetoting a more expensive measure.
On an 82-to-0 vote, the bill finally went to the White House eight months and four days after it was supposed to have begun financing operations of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Labor Department, Office of Economic Opportunity and a dozen smaller agencies.
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The FBI and military police are investigating the incident, the Army said. No further details were disclosed.
Welfare bill gets approval
The big Army base on the waterfront processes thousands of Vietnam-bound troops and is the major munitions and equipment shipping point for the war
The House approved the bill Tuesday and the Senate acted likewise Wednesday after a conference committee approved Senate amendments giving Nixon the right to withhold $347 million in expenditures.
The attempted sabotage was the latest in a series of bombings and attempted bombings in the San Francisco-Oakland area.
the porch of a home occupied by members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang. "I guess somebody just doesn't like us," observed one of the Angels.
Earlier in the day a bomb was discovered on a freight train which had left Oakland. The dynamite device also was found before it went off.
In another incident Wednesday a dynamite bomb exploded on
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