JARY 24, 1959 THE Ml gzGAN DAILY 'ARY 24, 1959 TINE MICHIGAN DAILY - 7--'- - Suino Praises Exchange Program By NORMA SUE WOLFE "Possibly the main advantage of any type of exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union is having as many Americans as possible watching the Soviet people in action-just to see what kind of people they might have to deal with," Mark Suino, Grad., said. Suino was graduated from the University in 1956, learned Russian in the Army doing "intelligence work of a sort" and was "inter- ested enough to continue." A teaching fellow in the Slavic lan- guages and literature department, he is presently working for his doctorate. - "I think at 'least 10 times as many American students as are studying Russian now should be taking the language," Suino said. English Popular "The Soviet students with whom I came in contact this past sum- mer quoted a figure of 10,000,000 Soviets taking English," he con- tinued, "either in regular educa- tional institutions, night schools or through correspondence.", Because of his interest in ex- change programs and knowledge of the Russian language, Suino served as interpreter during the summer, for a group of '10 Soviet citizens who participated in the United States-Soviet Union Sum- mer Exchange Project. This program was conducted un- der an agreement between the Council on Student Travel in. New York and the Soviet Committee of Youth Organizations. It was the first, large-scale reciprocal ex- change of such groups between the two countries. Tour America The 20 Soviet students who par- ticipated spent four days in New York City together. Then one unit visited New England, the Midwest and part of the South. Suino's group toured Chicago, stayed with farmers in Des Moines and surrounding areas in Iowa, and visited Palo Alto, Calif., Boulder, Colo., and Washington. "Their announced purpose was to find whatever they could about life of young people in the United States, young meaning between 18 and 35 years old," Suino said. Meet Groups Primarily interested in educa- tion, the group visited colleges. They also met *ith church groups, Future Farmers and 4-H mem- bers, but were disappointed not to find groups of "young workers." Suino described the group as be- ing very well informed and just filling in details on the United States. "They expressed no amazement LIFETIME BENEFITS-A representative of a Chieago insurance' company explains the benefits of an insurance policy to several He leaned back in his chair and added that ,the Americans waited until the Soviets left and, decided that their own ideas needed to be more :carefully analyzed. In the airplane leaving Denver, there was a bomb scare. Consider- ing' the group had heard of a similar incident, Suino said, the Soviets behaved well .when the plane was forced to land and pas- sengers and luggage searched. See Baseball -At a baseball game in Chicago, a member of the group caught on to the rules just when Suino's voice gave out in the fifth inning, and explained it to the rest of the group. "They seemed to be very upset about the dirty, noisy subways in New York," Suino said. "In Mos- cow, subways they are used to statues, soft music and cleanli- ness." In Iowa, the Russians taught a farm family a card game in which the losers have to pay the forfeit of crawling under the card table and crowing like a rooster. "It was very interesting when a 240-pound Soviet student and a 200-pound American farmer tried to get under at the same time," Suino said. Russians Honiesick At the end of the tour, he com- mented that all the students were "pretty homesick" but some con- fessed they wouldn't mind return- ing to the United States for an- other visit. The plan which offer's American graduate students a chance to study in Soviet universities offers similar advantages. In this system of living with Soviet students, American exchangees can see how they act everyday at home rather than when they are just on dis- play, Suino concluded. of the Soviet exchange students the summer. at much of anything here except the lack of knowledge and under- standing of Soviet affairs, such as Communism, and the universal ig- norancerofdSoviet literature," Su- ino reported, Party Members in Group In his group were at least four Communist party members and a few Komsomolltes, including a correspondent for the Komsomol edition.of Pravda, and the head of the Committee on Youth Or- ganization.- "Oneof my group members was a pianist and a graduate student at the Moscow Conservatory. He got quite well acquainted with Van Cliburn during competition there," Suino recalled. While in Chicago, it was ar- ranged for the Soviet pianist to who visited this country during visit Van Cliburn's rehearsal and later the two did a short arrange- ment on two pianos for a tel'evi- sion show. "We had trouble pushing away women who flocked around him and had to explain that he was married to a ballerina,",he said. Hold Discussions On anothey part of the tour, the Soviets were guests of a group of Americansyoung people. During discussions between the two groups, the Soviets complained that the Americans spent too much time discussing the freedom of an individual in abstract terms. Americans, in turn,'were shaken by the fact that each Russian knew exactly what he was going to do and where he was going, Suino reported. SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Announce New Grant for Research Important research directed to- ward finding drugs to prevent or treat virus diseases will continue at the University's School of Pub- lic Health under a grant of $144,- 010 from the March of Dimes. 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