CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 15, 1995
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Yumi Chikamori / KANSAN
Neri Gonzalez, Corinto, Nicaragua, junior, shows his hometown on a map to Deanie Smith, Haskell sophomore, at Haskell Indian Community College. International students met Haskell students yesterday to show pictures of their families and some traditional items from their homes.
Cultures are brought together
Haskell, KU international students exchange ideas
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Kunihiko Tanaka, an Applied English Center student from Tokyo, sat at a table with a group of students at Haskell Indian Nations University yesterday, explaining the food of his homeland.
While he was speaking, one Haskell student broke in excitedly and said, "I love Chinese food."
Tanaka politely waited for the student to finish and then explained that Japanese food is different from Chinese food.
No harm done. The purpose of the meeting, after all, was for Haskell students and international students at the University of Kansas to share cultures and promote understanding.
The month-long exchange, which will consist of five meetings, is organized by the Applied English Center at KU and Haskell. About 10 Native-American and 20 international students are participating in the exchange.
Preston Ivy, a Haskell student who has
Ponca, Creek and Seminole ancestry, said some of the international students also had misunderstandings about Native-American cultures.
"The only notion of Native Americans that some students had was based on Hollywood," he said.
ple interested in learning from them."
"The idea of nature is one of the points that we share in our religions," he said. "I have always been interested in Native-American culture, and this exchange helped me to learn the basics about it."
Reeze Hanson, intercultural communication instructor at Haskell, said the exchange helped her students to under-
"The only notion of Native Americans that some students had was based on Hollywood."
Karen Erb. a lecturer
Preston Ivy
Haskell student
in charge of student exchanges at the Applied English Center, said the exchange also helped international students to learn English.
"We want an authentic communication," she said. "Students have interesting things they want to talk about, and there are peo-
stand differences and similarities between Native-American students and international students.
"Students make wonderful discoveries about other people and themselves," Hanson said. "It's people learning about people."
Claudia Tyer, who has Creek-Shawnee and Seneca ancestry, said she learned about the problems of religion and natives in Central America.
"It was interesting to
learn how Mayans took some elements of Catholicism in the same way we did."Tyner said.
Osvaldo Munoz, an Applied English Center student from San Jose, Costa Rica, said he talked about the diversity of Central America.
Exchange students adjust to KU
By Brian Vandervilet Kansan staff writer
Qin Hong discovered just how far away she is from Kanagawa University when she tried to call home Saturday night.
"It took many, many quarters," said Hong, who called from a pay phone in Hashinger Hall.
Hong is one of 18 exchange students from Kanagawa University, which is located in the cities of Yokohama and Hiratsuka on the east coast of Japan. The students, who arrived at the University of Kansas earlier this month, will spend a month of their spring break vacation participating in an intensive English language program at KU's Applied English Center.
Although the students now spend most of the day learning to write, read and speak English, they also have time to spend away from their textbooks and writing tablets.
Hong said she enjoyed watching KU men's basketball team play the Oklahoma Sooners Saturday.
Liz Byleen, academic director for the program, said the exchange began five years ago to provide a cross-cultural experience for Japanese students. Lawrence is the sister city of Hiratsuka, Japan, and KU's tie with Kangawa University grew from that relationship.
"The students are gaining a good experience," Byelean said. "They are only here for a
"If a boy wants to throw the ball in the basket, the students of Kansas try to make him confused," she said. "It's very funny."
Kevin Trummel, Ellinwood junior, who lives in McColum Hall, said he was getting along well with his new roommate, Norio Teramoto, a sophomore from Kanagawa University. Trummel said the two were able to communicate using hand signals and common words.
The students are living in residence halls and sharing rooms with KU students.
Teramoto said that being able to wear shoes when walking around his room at McColum was a nice change. In Japan, he usually wears slippers indoors.
"I feel like I've learned a lot about Japanese culture," Trummel said. "It's been a real eye-opener."
String of obscene calls leads to student's arrest
Male suspect is issued a summons to appear on harassment charges
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
The first time Michelle Stepp, Overland Park sophomore, got a harassing phone call on her answering machine, she figured it was a prank.
"The first one was in October," Stepp said. "I thought it was someone messing around, just picking a random phone number and leaving a message."
In December, Amy Hamel, Hays freshman, received an obscene phone call at 12:30 a.m. Hamel, who lived on the same floor as Stepp, said the caller told her his name was Brian and that he wanted to speak with Stepp.
"I told him she was sleeping," Hamel said. "He called me a bad name and hung up."
When Stepp and Hamel returned from Christmas break, they submitted a written statement to KU police, alleging that they believed William P. Hambright, Grand Junction, Colo., freshman, was responsible for the harassing phone calls.
Stepp met Hambright at the beginning of the year at a party but didn't know him personally. Hamel's ex-boyfriend, who was friends with Hambright, told her the calls were from Hambright.
"He kept asking me these gross questions," Stepp said. "I asked him 'who is this?' The first time I asked he gave me a fake name, like Mike. The second time he hung up."
Stepp contacted KU police and gave them her answering machine tape that contained the obscene phone call.
On Feb. 7, Hambright was issued a summons to appear in district court last Monday on two
A few minutes later, Stepp received a message on her machine from the same caller that Hamel had spoken with earlier.
But the caller wasn't through making harassing phone calls that night. He called Hamel's room again at 1 a.m. and spoke with Stepp, who answered the phone.
"He said things like 'why don't you go back to Washington or Oregon,'" said Stepp, who is originally from Seattle.
Michelle Stopp Overland Park sophomore
counts of harassment by telephone. According to court documents, Hambright allegedly made the obscene phone calls to Stepp and Hamel.
Hambrigh was ordered to appear Feb. 27 for a trial setting.
Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek of KU police said the definition of harassment by phone depends on the person receiving the phone call. Harassing calls often contained derogatory terms or threatening statements.
To find the people behind harassing phone
calls, Rozmiarek said KU police first would look at people the victim knows or has met.
"We just have to look at people the victim has had contact with or the anyone the victim might have a problem with, like an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend," Rozmiarek said.
From that point, Rozmiarek said a phone tap can be made by University Telecommunications to track obscene phone calls.
Anna Hines, assistant director of Network Customer Services, said phones in student housing were not equipped for Caller ID. But, Hines said that traps could be put on campus phones after the student filed a report with KU police.
"We are the phone company for this campus," Hines said. "The first stop for students is the police. The second stop is us."
Finance committee OKs increase in activity fee
Kansan staff writer
By Ian Ritter
Students in the fall could be paying $7 more for their activity fees if Student Senate approves the increase Wednesday.
On Monday night, the Senate finance committee approved the bill proposing the increase. The bill may be modified or discussed further during tomorrow's finance committee meeting.
Last year, Senate did not approve the same proposal, which would have raised the fee from $28 to $35.
The activity fee has not been more than $28 since 1986.
The fee increase was proposed to compensate for enrollment decreases, increases in Campus Transportation financing, inflation and the needs of student organizations, said Stephanie Guerin, chairwoman of the finance committee.
"It's mostly for inflation purposes," she said.
"Since there are fewer students, $35 doesn't give us as much as $28 did."
This semester's enrollment at the Lawrence campus fell to 21,992 students, down from 23.182 last spring.
"Enrollment's always kept going up," Guerin said. "This is the first time that we've had to take a bite with enrollment."
Four dollars of the fee would go toward the increase in Campus Transportation's budget.
"Otherwise, it's just going to cost students more," Medill said. "This way, we save the students from completely having to jack up bus pass prices."
Campus Transportation asked for its own restricted fee at the finance committee meeting. The proposal, which would have allocated money specifically for Campus Transportation, was rejected by the finance committee. Watkins Memorial Health Center has a restricted fee.
"It's become such a large part of the budget that I think it needs to be separated off so the students can tell what they're paying for," said Kevin Olson, finance committee member. "I really don't know why it wasn't approved."
George Wyatt, finance committee member, said that the activity fee should be raised to $39 instead of the proposed $35 because student organizations would be hurt without a larger increase.
"We've gone almost 10 fiscal years now without an increase," he said. "I'm not seeing that much to slice without hurting these services."
The proposed increase is due to inflation and the Campus Transportation's attempt to keep bus pass prices for students as low as possible said Eric Medill, chairman of the Campus Transportation board.
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