2-Family ~pa~tment ' ''t', America'sI Student Invasion ,.,ntl'Cl if DJ .\/(Jitll' Jl gW r Iowa's Foreign weI! be th impact of their pres- Almo ~'hile no on was look­ Stvclents '53.54 ence upon the individual cam- EDITOR'S NOTE - Fourteen lng. the United S te has be­ Be.n ' ·In.. l •• m Lall. pus and the American student. years &co when reformers broke Kansas City, a reform party bad come a world center of higher C'.I",t. r,Oa For whatever 1heir reasons for the Iron &TIp tbe Pende«:pst e.I •••• e ....... u. I. 11101 •• Just broken the grip of the old educ:ni9n. Walk on any large U.I ....Jty Pork • coming here. stUdent from for- machine beld on Kansas City. a. Pendergast machine, college campus today (and most DlI .. •• , ,. eign lands have added a cosmo- eHy ~ was breal'M b~ to e ........ ~ I Civll Enctneer -()f the small ones) and you will ~::~!i.~ :t~·\!1:~.;,; ... , : politan flavor to the Amer-ican IIri the municipal bouse In order. .. Cookingham, a civil engineer, see what this me ns. Almo t all t.. Tb.... .q_ID ... D.b.q •• , 1.1 college campus. L. P. CMklal'bam's suoe_ was the races and nationaliti of the Dme l"alversU,. 0* M.lat .. -.ee&aeular. Here Is a. repen. on wasn't concerned with Pender­ Ell ••rlh J.. • ...... ...... r.u I The chances are that they 'con- the man and bls methods. gast when he arrived, but he 'world are now represented in ~::~~~-:;. a:.m~r:~I •• ' J~ tribute as much to col1ege life as found the Pendergast legacy dis­ ,,,-merican coJlea-es, Mixed in Gnu.U. G.I ...II . • .. they receive Crom it. B,. RENE .1. CAPPON tressing. The physical plant­ with pott- hirted and sweatered ...... 1.1 •• Am. ..... " 131 ..... ,,'wo, ••. MI. fluDDI ~ Prol'ram Evaluated water works, street lighting and American undergraduates are KANSAS CITY (IP) -A tax­ t:~h;•. D~:::;:b .::'.. ! But what does the educational payer once telephoned L. Perry paving, sewers and so on - waB Eu ropea II with their belt-in­ :: . :':" :Il•• bID" I•• , llu ell ,., .• ,. I~ experience of foreigners in this Cookingham. -the jovial. graying "run down and neglected." th -back uits. Indian women in I 1'11. Men J.e .• Ce•• , Hap.e ••• MI. I . CI .... CII.I.. , country mean to their future? city manager of Kansas City, Pendergast. for each of his 13 uri. b;:turbaned Arabs. and Ollum ... lIt1abl • Oll.m.... "0 t d t h dd t at 2 a,m, 'to inform him th1tt years. had a deficit that at the ~andso native from the Pa- 1'.1",.r S.h.1 or Cblnpndl.. oes s u en exc ange a 0 v .... l.' international understanding? Do a street light on a certain in tel'­ end amounted to more than 22 #ic bla ds. ,.rt " .. I. D~~:.r;.:•• ~d ..)'ar .~~:. I: .. ~~ foreign students. many of whom section was on the blink. mill ion dollars. Cookingham lor • A boOklet - "Education I . r •• I· )lluI.. .mia ••y. return home to positions ot lead- Yanked from deep sleep. Cook­ liquidated this deficit and ended :One Worjd" - prepared by the £,•• rtb. "". ..... S ingham discussed the matter po­ eacb of his 13 years with a sur­ .rnstitut of International Educo­ ...I.arT .r O.r Lad, or N.... ership, actually apply American iII.n... ". Dabaqu. techniques and ·ideas to native litely and got the caller's name plus never less than a milllo:l :tion. 8 on-profit organization 1m" eo. Inti I••••• and Mdress. dollars, • <levoted the promotion of stu- I ~ Ca'o T 1t1 .r 1o..... problcms? I ••• ell, .. .•. • .... 1;1 The e are interesting ques- A day laler Cookingham re­ Moreover, Kansas City. once • dent e~ all&'e, tells the story of U",er I ••• •• Fa) ~Ue . 1 •••••• • • ! W ••lb.'a . ",.... 1 s tions. but perhaps not !unda- turn~d the telephone call-a~ 3 regarded 'a roa'1'ing and wide : this educational migration. It i w. Imar. LeM... • ...... ".. ~ mental. The institute cautions a.m. open 10wn, has long been decor- en story 'th implications not on­ "'Ullalll Pe ..., O,k.I •• Wi '" •••• :i TOTAL ... ".,'" l-" that, in the last analysis. student Lla'bt'l Fixed ous and demure enough to be lor cation but for world : IY exchange programs should be "'that light you were worry- a lmost on the dull side. .unders( homeland~, evaluated in tcrms ot education, Ing about," he said smoothly, "its Cookingham is warmly preoc­ ~ ~..... tadent In U .. Europeans, on the other hand. "Technieal development. social fixed~" A few splutters from the cupied with his job. He nos no • In the faU of 1953, according more orten sludy in the humani­ and economic changes, belter other end. tben laughter. "I gue3s children ("too busy." he grins) : to the institute's survey. ap­ ties and social sciences. Africans. relations between nations:' says it serves me right-and thank and few hobbie.s. He usually t proxirnaillly 34,000 foreign stu­ as might be expected. conCen­ the institute. "are essentially by­ you very much," the man said. takes a briefcase of work home ; dents 'II(~re studying in 1.456 trate on agriculture. products, altnough they repre­ The anecdote is one of Cook- with him Irom his huge ottic/! ,American college, univer. ities, Some of the students come to sent legitimate and compelling ingham's favorites because it atop Kansas City's 29-story city , and prots sional schools. the U.S. for only one year. But goals in themselves." illustrates a principle he always hall. They come trom every conti­ considerably more come for two All these things will come emphasizes: Don't ignore com- 'Appetite for Job' nent an(trom Oeeonia. trom 129 or three years and a signitlcant about if American higher edu­ plaints, however minor, and keep "I've wanted to be in public dlf!el'etl nation. trust territo­ proportion stay long cnough to cation is dynamic and appealing. ' your sense of hUmor in dealing administration ever since r can ries, In rna tiona I adrninlslra- get a degree. Which is to ay that these for­ • with people, remember," he sa'ld, "I've never I :tions, n.d areas ruled by mlli­ SUI Has 170 tudents eign students should not be in­ "If you're a sourpuss. you'll lost my appetite for the job." never get by as a city manager;' Cookingham was a 16-year- .tary govIJ:nments. Institutions of world reputa­ doctrinated. should not become I he insists. old high scbool studen t in Dan- -: Thirty of them were classified tion such as Columbia univer­ instruments 0 ( American foreign as refugees lrom Red Russia. Judging from Cookingham'lI ville, Ill.. when he {irst read in sity. Harvard. Massachusetts In­ policy. They should be educated. l · Forty-nine 01 the students called reputation in his chosen profes- a civics text book aboub a new stitute of Technology. and Cor­ :themselves "stateless persons." sion, such ideas have served him torm of municipal government nell university (Ithaca. N.Y.) They carne here. most of them, well. At 57. and looking con- ca\led the city management sys­ have particularly large concen­ .. because the United Slates offers Navy Investigates siderably younger, he is widely tern . trations of foreign students. j educational opportunltl of a regarded as a sort of elder stales- The idea impressed him. "I • type. cope. and excellence not Thirty colleges and junior ~ixup in Atomic man among city managers. thought, what a swell thing it nVailllblq any ..... here elsc in lhe colleges in Iowa have foreign Personaltzed Administration is. putting a man in charge world. Others came ollt of curi­ ~,tudents in resIdence, SUI bad • His trainees. and there arc who's a trained expert cather , 0 ity-Io combine study with a 170 last year; Iowa State college Sub Construction Iyes' N.Y. Campaign. scores of them, have gone to than a politician." he recalls. He • look araJnd. was host to lSI. all sections of the n'ation to has never retreated from that WASHINGTON (IP) - A navy Blemished by Tomatoes spread the Cbokingharrl' gospel conviction. Hall Irom 10 Countrl or the smaller schools. St. investigation is under WilY to fix Interpreting the News WATERTOWN. N. y, (A"j - A of personalized administration No Disagreement About 'one half of the roreign Ambrosc and Mnrycrcst of Dav­ responsibility for a mixup which er.port cnrolJcd the greatest shower of tomatoes was thrown and technical know-how. cook- During his long tenure in studentr came trom only 10 resulted in the wrong kind of By J. 1\01. ROBERTS JR. number of students from other at U,S. Sen. Irving M. Ives (R­ ingham men have managed such. Kansas City Cookingham has countrieS.' Canadians outnum- steam piping going into the at- ssoclated Press News Analyst cities as Portland. Me., Columbia. never had a serious disagree­ countries - 23 b~wecn them. N.Y.) Tuesday night, as he' car­ • ber/'d any other nationality with omic submarine Nautilus. In the full eo~rse of history, ------ S.C., Phoenix, Ariz,. and Tacoma. ment with the maYOI' and city Morningside college at Sioux The navy estimates that at the failure to ,establish the Eu- weight would be decisive when ried his ~alTlpaign , ~or goycmor 4.775. were 2.535 Chinese. Wash. There is even a Cooking- council. although six months ~re least three months wiII be need- ropean Defense Community may necessary. Now the balance of of New York into the northern Of the others in the top 10-1n- City.