Money Shortage Causes Retraction Of Exchange Plan

A re-allocation of funds in the U.S. High Commissioner's Office in Germany has caused a one year cancellation of the Student Council-sponsored German Exchange program, it was learned yesterday.

The State Department, which had paid $11,700 last year to help send six German students to Harvard, switched the funds into its Fulbright program this year. Since Fulbrights are awarded to graduate students, the exchange program for undergraduate Germans has been stopped.

The Student Council's German Exchange Committee here, however, plans to continue and expand the program next year. It has already been promised complete remission of tuition for the six students. A spokesman for the Committee, Kirby von Kessler '54 said yesterday that the group will solicit funds from private corporations for next year.

The project, which is designed to show outstanding German students how American universities and extra-curricular activities work, started two years ago with one exchange student, Wolfram Rhode Liebenau. Last year it was enlarged to include six more students, with a grant of $11,700 from the State Department. The students paid no tuition to the College.

Von Kessler and last year's Exchange Committee chairman, John Stokes '54, said yesterday that they are currently trying to expand the program so that it will run for four or five years without another fund drive. In the past, Stokes said, the program has always been hindered by fund raising--the Committee has never been able to concentrate its attention on the actual exchange projects.