The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 123

Unlike Bulgaria Kentucky proves friendly to a Ghana student By LEE IIEIMAN, Conifer-Journal Suff Wriu Timothy Kufi'n entile Iiuh helped him win fricnu at Centre. He's holding a magazine from Ghana. IT WAS WITH particular interest that Timothy Kusi read recent newspaper accounts of the departure from Bulgaria of 20 Ghanian students who charged they were "treated like dirt" and mishandled by police in a wave of racial discrimination in that Soviet-oriented nation. In his comfortable dormitory room at Centre College in Danville, he could compare his own fortune. He, too, had left Ghana in search of a college edu cation abroad, but in Kentucky he'd found the sort of campus atmosphere he'd hoped for.

He, too, had problems, but of the sort that could be solved and are being solved. Just turned 21, Tim Kusi is majoring in business administration and economics at Centre and wants to take his knowledge back to Ghana where he feels it is badly needed by the farming population. He plans to stay at Centre where, in the words of President Thomas A. Spragens, "his friendly disposition and his earnestness of purpose have won him general respect and friendship." And where, in the words of Timothy Aye Kusi, "I enjoy being." Problems? Well, Kusi has his share, but none are in the field of racism. Back in Ghana waits Mrs.

Kusi with their 3 year-old boy. She's teaching in a city school while immigration problems are being straightened out. For a Ghanian cocoa farmer's who is in college on his own no governmental aid finances are something to worry about, too. But this isn't as bad a problem as it would have been without a Centre-provided scholarship and a job in the college cafeteria. Even his studies have given Kusi some difficult times, but he has completed his first semester at Centre satisfactorily.

Kusi selected Kentucky State College at Frankfort as the school of his choice from material he received while attending a Presbyterian-sponsored college in Ghana. He arrived in Frankfort last February to attend classes during the second semester. But when he realized that he wasn't getting courses he felt suited his needs completely, he turned to a friend, the Rev. Robert Laughlin, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Frankfort, for advice. Centre was the pastor's recommendation.

Kusi is the first and only African student ever to attend Centre. He is, in fact, the only Negro ever to be enrolled there, although the school policy calls for no racial discrimination. Centre officials explain that the few other Negroes to apply have had to be turned down for scholastic reasons. Kusi was born and reared in a small rural community called Appah Ashanti, in central Ghana, about 200 miles from the capital city, Accra. His is a.

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