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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Thursday Evening, Feb. 22, 1968

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LIX, No.

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Bill Breezes Through Mouse To Limit
Students UpTheir Fees
Out-Of-Sta- te

By TERRY DUNHAM
The number of
students enrolling in the University
would be limited and their tuition raised substantially by a bill
passed in the state House of Representatives Wednesday.
sent to the senate by an state universities. The average
82-- 4
vote, the bill would require
in contiguous states is $903.
the five state universities and
Rep. Wesley cited
Kentucky State College to have
tuition fees at some nearno more than 15 percent of their by schools: Ohio State Universtudent bodies from outside Kensity, $1008; The University of
tucky by 1972.
Virginia, $1,037; Indiana UniverThe University now has slightsity, $960, and Miami of Ohio,
ly more than 20 percent of its
$1,020.
undergraduate population from
He said the State Council
on Higher Education had been
Some Kentucky state universtudying present fees with the
sities, however, have
promise of recommending an inenrollment amounting to nearcrease for
tuition, but
of their student had not acted and the
ly one-thir- d
represenbodies.
tatives chose to initiate their own
Rep. Quentin Wesley (R
action instead.
Sturgis), a 1954 graduate of the
UK College of Law, sponsored
the bill and cited financial reasons for its necessity.
Two-thirof the state budget goes for education, he said,
and much of this is for substudents.
sidizing
"How long can Kentucky
spend its money for these students and get nothing in return?"
he asked. "After we have paid
for their education, many of them
leave the state never to return,
never to pay any taxes, and never
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Members of the Black Student Union show how
they unanimously approved a resolution to con- tinue efforts for placing a Negro history course in
the University curriculum. The meeting, described

by the group as "urgent," was declared
to a Kernel reporter and photographer by BSU
members,
off-limi- ts

'No Means Too Extreme' To Get
Black History Course, Berry Says

A vote to continue pushing for
a course at UK in Negro history
received unanimous approval of
the Black Student Union Wednesday.
"We hope to carry on talks
with Dr. Carl Gme (chairman
of the Department of History,
but if he doesn't have something
different to say it would be pointless for our group to continue

Members of the BSU and other
interested students will conduct

a brief silent vigil at 11:50 a.m.
Friday in front of the Administration Building in respect for
four Negro students killed in a
recent racial incident at South
Carolina State University.

to meet with him," said Theodore Berry, chairman of the BSU.
"We consider no means too
extreme to get this course," said
Berry.

Dr. Cone met with BSU members last week and told them

Department could
not offer such a course next semester.
The BSU also made plans to
meet with former Gov. A. B.
Chandler, now a member of the
UK Board of Trustees, to discuss various problems.
The BSU took issue with the
Kernel on its "apparent ix)licy"
that the BSU has an obligation
to recruit black athletes. Reference was to a recent editorial
titled "Orgena Put Up or Shut
the History

Up."
"We are going to do what
we can to assist the University
in recruiting black athletes but
we don't feel it is our duty to
takeover the total role. We are
putting out considerable effort
in this area but we expect the
University to do an equal amount
of work," Berry said. "It is not
our duty, it is something we
want to do."
BSU members also discussed
a photograph caption in the Ker

nel which referred to the group
as "militant."
"If militant means speaking
up for what is rightfully ours
w ithout asking, then we are militant, but not in a sense of violence," said Berry.
In the area of recruiting Negro
students, members said they are
working jointly with the University administration, including the
Office of Admissions, to pay recruiting visits to high schools in
Kentucky with a large percentage
of Negro students.
The group expressed satisfaction with progress in housing
problems. The BSU has checked
the UK housing list and found
a statement to landlords forbidding discrimination, and instructions to student victims of bias
to reixjrt such incidents.
The University has also instituted a program requiring landlords desiringtolist their property
to either visit the Housing Office

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education."

"I agree that a certain amount
of cultural exchange is necessary

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REP. WESLEY

and valuable," the representative
University administrators said
said, "but we're only limiting most of the better schools attract
the students from other states,
students merely benot prohibiting them."
cause they are better schools. The
"We still have
representation of schools from
schoolhouses in this state and various sections of the country,
the University is asking for $87 said one, is "educationally reamillion for the next year. We've sonable and sound," but none
got to handle this money in the criticized the proposed limit spebest possible way."
cifically.
The tuition for
According to Rep. Wesley, 11.4
students, beginning next fall, percent of the undergraduate stuwould be the one of three aldents at all state universities in
of
ternatives which resulted in the the country are
the state in which they are athighest fee:
An average of the highest nontending.
He said the Legislative Reresident fee charged by a state
university or college in each ad- search Commission reported that
other state institutions have the
joining state.
student
Equal to the maximum fee following
which the student's home state composition:
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At least $600 more than

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$850 at

Western 13.6 percent
Eastern 18.5 percent
Morehead 29.6 percent
Murray 31.5 percent
Kentucky State 32.6 percent

Campus Opinion Varies On New Draft Rule

By DANA EWELL
"We only know what we read

in

the papers."
That's what

a representative
local Selective Service
loard told the Kernel ahout the
National Sec urity Council'
of draft deferments for
most giaduate studi-ntsBut what do graduate students, graduating seniois and faculty at UK say alout the i educdeferments?
tion in
Mike Bac h, a senior who will
graduate in December from the
(College of Agriculture, said "I
decided alxmt a year ago to go
on active duty alter graduation
and then go back to graduate
school afterw ards ontheCI bill."
Bach is in his fourth year of
Army HOTC and will be com

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missioned a second lieutenant
upon graduation.
"I'm looking forward to going
to Vietnam. I feel I have an
to my country," Bach
cone hided.
ToinTciupliu, who iswoikiug
on his I'll. 1). in history, was
once an annyinti Iligence officer
in Cermauy.
"Simply because I have served
I don't take any joy in seeing
someone drafted who doesn't
want to serve," Templiu said.
"In principle," he noted, "I'm
in favor of universal military
training. I don't think there's any
danger of eople being indoctrinated with militarism. Actually
I think the effect is the reverse."
Phil Connley, a middler (second year) student at Lexington

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graduate:

Theological Seminary across
IJmestone Street from UK, had
this to say:
"I don't think I could kill.
This would bedenyingmy faith."
He lelieves many of his fellow
seminarians, if faced with the

draft, would file as conscientious
objectors.
Seminary students,
however, are automatically excluded from the draft.
"I wish they'd have gotten
me right alter high school. I
wouldn't have caied then," was
Crawford Blakeman's comment.
Blakemau is a graduating senior
in anthrojKjlogy who recently became a Woodrow Wilson designate and hopes to start graduate
school in the fall.
But "if they call me I'll go.
I guess I wouldn't mind doing
something different for awhile.
I'm a little tired of school anyway," Blakeinan added.
A first year graduate student
in the Patterum School of Diplomacy, Jim Chandler, is thinking alxmt enlisting in the Air

Force next October. He plans
to finish his graduate work in
August, and October will be his
first chance to enroll in officers'
training.
"I think two years of se i ice
should he required of every
ldy,"
Chandler said. "There are more
things constructive to the nation
than just serving in the military,
the Peace Corps or Vista."
John Maita, a senior in College of Medicine, is from Jordan.
He has not y et been naturalized,
but is registered with a draft
lx)ard.
Mart a feels residents who are
not citizens should be eligible
for the draft since they come to
this country to establish new
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Fcl. 22,

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The University fully recognizes the important role which the international students
play in the institution's cultural liie. These
students of varied cultures who come to our
campus have the opportunity to understand
better our American culture, its strengths
and its unique features, and our American
students are afforded the opportunity to broaden their understanding oi the many other
cultures represented here. This interchange is
not limited to the campus; its benefits are
enjoyed throughout the Commonwealth.
I commend the efforts of the International
Student Office, which seeks to establish mutually profitable relationships between the guest
and the host communities. I commend, too,
the work of the Cosmopolitan Club, an
organization sponsored by the International
Student Office, whose membership is open
not only to the international students but
to the American students as well.
I urge full participation of both groups
in this club, for only with such a combination can it serve as an effective locus for the
exchange of ideas. Student organizations'are
encouraged to cooperate with the club in
nature and it is
projects of
that the students from other counmy hope
tries will not confine their activities to just
their own organizations.
I find great personal satisfaction in my
contacts with students from other nations
and I feel that my family has benefited immeasurably from the presence in our home of
students from Iran, Hong Kong, Germany,
Norway and Austria who have lived with us
from time to time.
Jolin W. Oswald
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Profile Of UK International Students
BENJAMIN AVEIUTT
Director of International Student Office
The international student is not newtothe University
campus. He has been with us since before World War
I. However, his increasing number is new to us. For
example, there was less titan 30 students from other
countries at the University before 1(J50. Now, there
are more than 210 from more than 50 countries.
Who is he? Well, he, or she, comes in many sizes,
shapes, colors, races, cultures, attitudes, abilities, nationalities, academic interests, loyalties, etc., etc., etc.
We can say that he is an individual, and jealous of
international students may be many things,
this fact-f- or
but they are not a group.
They are strangers to each other as much as to the
Kcntut kians. They have, usually, in common only that

and that they are students here.
they are
Alxnit three fourths of the international students are
males. Most (68 percent) are graduate students. Some
30 jKTcent are married and of the married students
three fourths have their souses with them.
Over hall of the students come from Asian countries,
with China, Indonesia, India, Thailand. KoTea having
the largest representations. The Middle Kast and North
Africa area contribute 16 percent, Kurope 13.5 percent
and Latin American 11 percent.
Engineering, with 21.6 percent, is the field of interest
for the largest num!er. Following engineeringis physics,
economics, agronomy, and chemistry.
The international student does very well, in general,
with his studies. Last year of the 208 students on campus. 56 received degrees.
non-citize-

Though the number of international students at
University has risen rapidly in the past several years,
it is not sufficient to really give the campus the desirable cosmopolitan atmosphere.
An "international" campus offers a
contrasting educational clime to the "provincial" campus for today's world. Our .015 percent of the international students at the University is not a favorable comparison
with such schools as Columbia University, 10.1 percent;
M. I. T., 12.4 percent; Howard, 17.6 percent; Harvard,
8.4
Princeton, 8.9 percent; or Cornell, 8.0 percent.
However, there is a growing awareness of this aspect
of the University's needs. Several committees, as well
as individuals, are presently engaged in taking a very
serious look at possible alternatives and to impiove
our wliole area of international education.

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By DAVID HOLWERK
Tuesday, 6:00: Still in the wake do you think about Vietnam?"
y
of Senator Robert Kennedy, we
Kennedy: "Oh, God! Shall I send
oil the mountain in Knott
get
you a copy of my speech?" ThroughCounty where we have been turned out, the students show that they
back by coal company officials. arc bright as can be, that they
Not easy to get off, as we have arc dissatislied with mountain life,
to stop to help NBC News crew that they leel politics a main evil
bend the fender of its rented Bonof the area. Kennedy shows reneville back in shape; have to stop spect for them, an understanding
to push car fom mudhole (while of their problems, an ability to
keeping Bailey Guard, Senator John answer questions truthfully. He
Sherman Cooper's aide, irom tailing does so until well after 10:00.
into the same) and go at ten
Wednesday, 12:30 a.m.: After
miles per hour because the setting
home ot Don Pratt's
sun, coming into the clouds of dust, stopping at
aunt for food, check into Daniel
makes vision impossible. When we
Boone Hotel, Whitesburg. Have to
get down, Kennedy has disappeared. We turn right towards Hind-ma- n wake the desk clerk up; two dollars apiece for room 208, which
(I swore it was to the left)
has two double beds, wash basin,
and proceeded alter him.
peacock blue walls and white ceilTuesday, 6:15: Arrive in Hind-ma- ing, ripped sheets, and a
prime
much to my surprise. Find
location, being only three doors
Kennedy and half Knott County down from the pay toilet. To say
wedged into tiny Soda Shop. Stop- that it is overheated would be gross
ped to speak to Harry Caudill, buy understatement.
an ice cream cone. Caudill saying,
Wednesday, 7:15: Cartoonist Bill
"Why this man, the Franklin Roosevelt of, our time, isn't a candidate Thompson awakes at this hour,
tor President is beyond me." In explaining, "I'm conditioned to it."
process of eating ice cream and No one else is, but we stagger
listening I nearly get left as we lead around, finally get dressed, go
the advance guard of the caravan downstairs to "Coffey Shop" where
we order breakfast. Just as I finish
my cornflakes the street begins to
till with kids. I rush out, and there
is Kennedy making a speech. He
looks a little tired (which is reassuring as he had about four hours
sleep) but is still witty. "When
you kids grow up, and can vote,
always remember: It was a Kennedy
that got you out of school." The
crowd roars. Whitesburg never saw
anything like it.

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Alice Lloyd College.
Tuesday, 7:20: Arrive Pippa
Passes and Alice Lloyd College.
From what have heard oi the financial state ot the college, it clings
to life and the side of the mountain with the same bulldog tenacity. Suddenly find ourselves faced
with the problem ot where to eat.
Nothing open, of course, and we
have no dining hall reservations.
Others starve, but my problem solved easily. I walk into dining hall
talking to Harry Caudill. Immediately seated ("Let me find you
a place to sit, Sir") by the little
blonde, white uniformed student
waitress; served the special of the
day ("Boston Baked Beans, esj)ec-iall- y
for the Senator") which tasted
and looked just like black eyed peas.
All the food was delicious, but
didn't get to eat much, tor the
IK'ople at the table thought I must
have been someone and so asked
me voluminous questions: "What's
he like?" "What does he talk
about?" Finally reveal am but Kernel reiorter and eat in abjec t loneliness for rest of meal.
Tuesday,

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structure. Crowd gets
lecture on manners belore his entrance ("Don't stomp your feet")
which may have been a safety
precaution. Kennedy speaks tor a
short time, then he and Carl Per

Arrive at
Fleming-NeoHigh School, Neon,
Letcher County, for hearings. Outside of gym a group of kids stand
with bags over their heads. They
do this out of fear, because ii
their schools in Harlan County
find out that they have been in
attendance they will be expelled.
The hearings go on for three hours;
they are not what Kennedy expected. The people he hears range from
articulate to subliterate, from contented to angry. One man tries
to take over the meeting. He tails,
but his words ring loudly: "Unless conditions change, this is the
last time we will approach you as
either Democrats or Republicans."
There are perhaps five hundred
people crowded into the tiny gym,
and when one witness tells ot the
difficulty of life and of the extent
of political control in the mountains the great majority cheer.
they cheer both the courof the speakers and the presage
ence ot Kennedy. For them.hemay
present the last hope that unper-verte- d
democracy can lead them to
a better life, one over which they
have control. Outside, as we leave,
a militant organizer speaks at a
"Spontaneous People's Meeting."
Wednesday,

8:30:

"Don't Be Naive

Kernel Forum: the readers write
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Usually I don't become upset over
newspaper misprints. However, when a
campus "sentinal" tells of the vandalism
in the Complex something has to give.
Never in two years have I seen blatant
destruction of property nor has it been
rumored in my dorm, Complex 8. Of
course I realize that the Kernel's editors
have "bugs" and "pigeons" all over
campus but if facts and specific instances
are not given, then it is a personal blemish
on each student living in the Complex.
I believe that the Kernel owes us, the
Complex, an apology for "defamation of

character."

Valyrie Mills
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"What does this man, this senator think he is, coming down here
to show us how to live?" he asks.
"We should throw him out." For
the moment, he sounds likea cheerleader at a losing football game.

It Was Just That Sign

That Was Temporary"

To the Editor of the Kernel:
We, as residents of Complex Tower
A, recognize that the Kernel has, as
usual, made another mistake in refuting. In the article "Vandalism at UK,"
the Kernel stated that vast areas of the
Complex have been destroyed by the
students; this is not true. There has Ix'en
some damage done, but not by a majority of Complex students, as the Kernel
suggested.
If a member of the Kernel staff would
be so good as to show us "the wanton
destruction and senseless vandalism of
the Complex," we would be eternally
indebted.
We hope that this letter will be printed,
even though it does not express the same
opinion as the Kernel.
Robert Scott DeKoschak
Harry F. Cirdlcr
Samuel Holbrook
Phillip Richardson
To the Editor of the Kernel:
I would like to make a response to
the questions you raised in your editorial
Feb. 19 on UK vandalism. First, I will
answer your questions and secondly I
would like to elaborate on the situation
here in the Complex.
Where are the corridor advisors? Most
a great deal of time studyof them six-lin
and are
ing. They are
not taking Mickey Mouse freshman
courses. Their duty hours are adequate,
for I do not think students should be on
guard in the wee hours of the morning.
Where are the police? That is a good
question. Most of the time it steins that
they are either making emergency police
phone tails by the minute to the local
wrecker service or looking in the women's
windows in the low rises.
Where are the decent people in the
Complex? 1 consider myself one of those
Ieople but I'll be damned if I'll stay up
all hours of the night looking for v andals.
upier-classme-

Let me tell you one thing tliough, Mr
Editor, if I ever catch one he'll wish that
he had never heard of the Complex.
I thought the Complex was for
It seems that somehow many
freshmen got in here, (excluding athletes)
Where there is one freshman there are
many. To me many of them are not
mature enough to appreciate the Complex.
n
Sure
have friends who
are freshmen and those freshmen may be
mature enough to live here but who is to
vouch for their friends?
I'm not saying for sure, but I think
maybe the Greeks have something to do
with this vandalism. They realize they
don't have as much to offer the students
as they used to so they try to destroy
the opposition.
Only 15 of the population of UK is
Greek but yet they run this place, for
what that's worth. The only real gimmick
the Creeks have going for them is drinking in the houses, (which appears to be
hypocritical policy for both the police
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UK

administration)

Another type of vandalism should be
blamed on the builders of the Complex,
especially the doors of the Towers and
the main water line in A. With the garbage cans in front of the doors the
Towers look like ghettos and I personally
don't like to live in a ghetto!
With the water line broken and the
carpet mildewed the lower floors of Tower
A smells like an Anatomy class that
has recessed for a couple of years.
Putting police on the floors or having
the administration tighten up is a giant
step in the wrong direction.
I don't pretend to have the answers
but your editorial seems to be aimed
at the wrong target.
Ed Cemy

Education Junior

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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Feb.

Soccer ('FutboV) Is Big Sport
Attendance Figures Confirm Fact

By STEVE BRIGHT
No other sport can challenge
the popularity of soccer in Uruguay, according to Rafael Vallebona, a member of the University's soccer team.
Attendance figures reflect tliis
statement about Vallebona's
country.
The average soccer game attracts between 33,000 and 55,-00- 0
spectators, Vallebona said.
An important game will draw
around 120,000.
Basketball, which ranks with
horse racing as one of the most
popular sports excluding soccer,
will attract alxut 1,500 for a
good game, Vallebona said.
Soccer is called and spelled
"futbol" in Uruguay. Almost all
of the play for spectators is
done on the professional level.
Youngsters begin playing soccer as soon as they are old
enough.
"I think I got my first soccer
ball when I was three (years
old)," Vallebona remarked.

However, soccer nlavers be
gin playing professionally when
they are between 15 and 18
years old.
Uruguay has about 50 teams,
divided into five divisions, Vallebona stated. The divisions are
ranked numerically according
to the quality of the play.
The winner of each division
advances to the division above
it, and the team finishing last
in each division drops into the
one below it for the next season's play.
Each team plays 18 games in
a season, which opens in August and ends in January.
The professional soccer played in the United States is poor,
according to Vallebona.
"It's poor for two reasons,"
he stated. "One, the few American players don't have the ability that European and South
Americans have.
"And, second, the foreign
players are going down hill as
far as ability is concerned, so

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they came here," he continued.
"They were not excellent players anymore abroad."
Rule differences which slow
the game down makes American professional
soccer less
exciting than soccer played
abroad, stated Vallebona.
'The future of soccer here,"
he said, "depends on what kind
of good American players can
be developed in college."
Vallebona cited the St. Louis,
Michigan State, Long Island
University and San Francisco
University soccer teams as being the "outstanding" college
soccer teams in the United
States.
He added that the quality of
college soccer in America seemed to be picking up last year,
but fell down this season.
Vallebona said that he finds
soccer more exciting than American football.

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Dating Customs Differ
In Foreign Countries
By CAROLYN DUNNAVON

"Dating is becoming." This
comment by Sekreya Aly, graduate student in sociology from
the United Arab Republic, sums
up the feeling about dating in
many of the foreign countries.
Until recently, according to
Sekreya, dates have been arranged by the families of the
girls. But in the last 15 years
or so, "education has expanded
and some girls meet the man
they marry in college. For the
majority it is still an arranged
marriage, but with the education
there is a different outlook."
According to Eleonor Wu, a
graduate student in library science from China, "The dating
here is quiet different from home.
In China we are more conservative. When a girl goes with a guy,
she sticks to him. We have only
one guy at a time."
In Jordan, you become engaged before you go out on a
date, according to Mary Marta,
junior French major fromjordan.
"Dating is mostly a parents
thing," says Mary. "The boy
asks his father to ask your father
if you can become engaged. Then
you go out."
There are, of course, ways

JOE HINDS

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boy walked

down the winding street, brushing sweat off his forehead. He
noticed the green pastures undulating for miles before connecting with the carnival at
sunset.
Beirut and the Lebanon countryside inspired him, but a piece
of charcoal lying along his way
was the material that provoked
him.
Asmad Shaban picked up the
charcoal and walked to a nearby wall. He looked at it and
then at his hand. He slowly
moved his hand to the wall.
Then he began to draw.
These sketches marked the
beginning of Ahmad Shaban,
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to get around such rules, even
in Jordan. "Here, if you like
somebody, you go out. In Jordan if you want to go out with
someone you sneak out," says
Mary.
In Jordan, United Arab Republic, China and Iran as well
as the United States, movies are
the most popular place to go on
a date. They are the most inexpensive form of entertainment
and are always available. In
China, for instance, there are
very few other places suitable
to go on a date, according to
Eleonor. In Iran, the movie is
second only to a party given at
your parents house for a date.
Whether you go to a show,
a picnic, a play or a dance, in
Jordan you always have a chaperon Mary commented. The chaperon can be either a sister, cousin, mother or aunt. Sometimes
even a brother comes along.
All of these differences in dating are largely the result of a
difference in education, according to Sekreya. In the United
States, there is a mixed educational system however. In the
United Arab Republic, for example, there are no
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Amhad was born in Beirut.
Lebanon, but he moved to the
United States to further his
education. He is a junior majoring in architecture at UK.
Ahmad, like other international students, came to the
United States to learn more
about Americans. He said, "I
don't just learn about architecture. I also learn about the people here and they in turn learn
from me."
Ahmad's creative work has
won awards at the University.
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first prize in the Cosmopolitan Club art contest with
his human figures.
He did a stage show of clay
when he was 13. His school
superintendent kept one of his
works, a
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of a peasant wearing a tarbouch,
a peasant hat. He visited the
superintendent last summer and
noticed that the clay model was
still on his desk.

Ahmad became familiar with
materials in elementary school.
He worked with pencils, crayons and water colors in his art
class.

He said, "The beauty of Lebanon affected me more than
any of my classes. The countryside is green like Kentucky but
is more mountainous."
He described 2,000 year-ol- d
cedar trees that populated the
mountains. He said the ancient
ruins, especially King Solomon
Burke's temple, inspired him
to draw.

Sharing Ideas And Food
Living Internationally

By MARVA GAY
Life with international students introduces
roommates and wives to different ideas and strange
food.
Wesley Weidemann, graduate in agriculture
economics, lives in the same house with Kong
Yuan Chong of Malaysia and Mike Da Yo Won
of the Philippines. He met Cliong in class over
a year ago.
Weidemann is no stranger to international
students. He served in the Peace Corps in Pakistan
from 1964 to 1966. At the University of Wisconsin
he rented and sublet a louse. Renters included
students from Korea, Nigeria, India, Malaysia

and the Philippines.
"Living with foreign students is very enlightening. Things don't seem so black and white,"
said Weidemann.
"We have bull sessions till two and three in
the morning," he said. "We may talk about
politics or the cultural revolution in China."
Weidemann said he has no major problems in
living with international students. "Chong has a
very Western or modem outlook." He has been
in the United States for six years, and has visited
60 countries.

He does have one minor problem. "When
Kong's friends call, no one can understand what's
said. This causes foul ups."
Punjabi is one language Weidemann does speak.
He learned it in the Peace Corps, and has even
used it at UK. "I was walking behind two Indians who were speaking Punjabi. I casually
nude a comment in Punjabi." Weidemann said
they looked very surprised.
Steak with onions and a Malaysian twist is
one thing Weidemann enjoys. "Kong's a good
cook." Weidemann said he lias an Indian roommate who cooked something that smelled bad.
Won and Weidemann have something in common. "We're big rice eaters. The rest kid us

about it."

Weidemann said there is no distinction made
between the international students and the other
roomers. "Actually we're all foreigners here. Nobody is from Kentucky."
John Cubert has been rooming with Nabeel
Haidar of Lebanon in Cooperstown for a month.
They didn't know each other before.
"I've gained a different perspective of the
world," said Cubert. Cubert and Haidar often
talk about the Arabs.
Cubert said Haidar is very American.
Both have a similar French background. Cubert is from New Orleans where there is a strong
French influence. "My parents were similar to
his. We even play the same card games."
Both like French food and lots