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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 5,1999
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KU group organizes quake relief
Kansan staff writer
A KU group has established a relief fund to aid victims of the Jan. 25 earthquake in Armenia, Colombia.
By Dan Curry
Kansas staff writer
The magnitude six earthquake killed nearly 1,000 people in the western, coffee-growing region of Columbia. It razed entire neighborhoods and left 200,000 homeless.
Latin American Solidarity will accept contributions to the fund during working hours at the Center of Latin American Studies, 107 Lippincott Hall.
Megan Hope, Garden City graduate student and president of LAS, said that the money would buy food, tents, plastic coverings and coffins.
Hope said there were health problems in Armenia because there weren't enough coffins to bury the dead.
Checks should be made out to "KU Earthquake Relief."
Twelve students from Colombia attend the University of Kansas.
None have sought aid from the International Student Services because of the earthquake, said Lori Phillips, ISS receptionist.
Nayibe Bermudez, Barranquilla, Colombia, graduate student, said the quake didn't harm anyone she
Her family lives in northern Columbia on the Caribbean Sea where the earthquake hardly was felt, she said.
But her younger siblings have been watching the earthquake-related death toll rise on the television, she said.
directly knew.
they've been worried by the images of devastation." Bermudez said. "I'm very sad, too. With this new president that we have, people had hopes that the country would economically grow."
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Earthquake in Armenia, Colombia
But because of the earthquake, Bermudz said, economic growth will be close to impossible.
"Our national debt will increase," she said. "There will be more taxes."
Marvin Grilliot, Roeland Park graduate student and vice president of Latin American Solidarity, said that paramilitary violence and the drug war in Columbia already had stretched the poor of the country.
The earthquake just makes matters worse,he said.
"Things have really been complicated right now," Grillot said. "There's a lot of looting going on."
He said the money collected at the University would be sent to the Columbia Support Network, a non-governmental U.S. organization that is working
Grilliot said that Colombian president Andrés Pastrana was doing his best to make sure that earthquake victims were being helped and the looting was stopped.
with the Colombian Bishops Conference Relief Office to bring aid to those affected by the quake.
Hope said that the relief fund account had been opened a week ago and had not received many donations.
LAS also will hold a rice-and-bean dinner to raise funds for earthquake victims at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
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The Fast-Path program is a two-year master's program in computer science designed for students who did not receive an undergraduate degree in that field.
Recent graduates who have realized that computer skills are a must in the work force can start on a fast path to a master's degree in computer science this fall.
Ambler said that students interested in Fast-Path should have a strong math background.
"The problem has been that the path through that degree program is so long that it is basically not a feasible thing to do," he said.
Allen Ambler, chairman of the graduate program review committee for the electrical engineering and computer science department, said there were several students who would benefit in their professional careers if they had received a degree in computer science.
"We anticipate that most of the students interested in this will come from math or science," Ambier said. "However, we have had students interested in business and linguistics, and some of the social sciences, so we'll see."
Ambler said that completion of statistics and three levels of calculus was required. With that background, Fast-Path combines basic computer science courses that students may not have taken in their undergraduate fields so that computer science basics can be completed in one year. These basic courses add 18 hours to the traditional computer science master's curriculum.
Students interested in the program should have a strong math background, including courses in statistics and three levels of calculus.
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FastPath is a quicker way for students who did not receive an undergraduate degree in computer science to earn a master's degree in that area.
The program is intended for students who have an undergraduate degree from a U.S. university.
Sibley said that Fast-Path applications were due June 1.
Carmela Sibley, graduate admissions officer for the department, said that 80 percent of the department's graduate students were international students. Sibley said that Fast-Path was an attempt to attract more U.S. citizens, although international students with an undergraduate degree from a U.S. university also were eligible.
"This is a situation that all the hard sciences run across," Sibley said. "U.S. citizens get their bachelor's degrees and go out and get jobs, because the job market is so good."
"The Fast-Path program is more hours than the traditional graduate program, but students graduate with the same requirements had they gone through the traditional way," Ambler said.
Another requirement is that applicants must have an undergraduate degree from a U.S. university, although Ambler said that he did not think this requirement would be enforced strongly.
Groups to unite in prayer for the entire KU campus
Christian meeting to take place tonight
By Nathan Willis Special to the Kansan
Kelly Liebengood, Icthus director, said the idea for a large group event was developed by the organizations' directors, who had all been friends.
The University of Kansas needs a lot of prayer.
That's the message leaders of four campus Christian groups said they want to spread at an all group meeting at 7 tonight at Room 3140 in Wescoe Hall.
Both Liebengood and Ketrow said that they believed the meetings had been successful so far. They said that about 120 to 150 people had attended each of the meetings. Similar attendance was expected for the rest of the semester.
"Ninety percent of what we're going to do is pray for different groups on campus, campus in general, the faculty and staff, the environment on campus and stuff like that," said Scott Ketrow, director of Campus Crusade for Christ and one of the organizers of the event.
Ketrow said that although the event was sponsored by four specific religious groups Campus Crusade, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Icthus and Navigators — all Christians were invited.
"The teaching is really interesting, really thought-provoking and really applicable to our lives," Lawler said. "You can really feel the spirit moving in the room that God is there."
The meeting is the first of three large group events planned for this semester, Ketrow said. The four organizations also sponsored three large group meetings last semester.
Heather Lawler, St. Charles,
Ill., sophomore and Intervarsity member, attended the three meetings last semester. She said she viewed them as successes.
Lindsey Chalfant, Topeka junior and vice president of Campus Crusade, said the meetings provided moral support for Christians.
"It's good to bring everyone together," she said. "That way our groups are not so secluded. I think it's encouraging to see other Christians across campus."
Susan Hines, Grandview, Mo., senior and Intervarsity member, said the large group meeting was important.
"We're all working toward the same goal, and we want everyone to know about Jesus," Hines said. "We don't want to lose people in between the cracks, and this is a way we can make sure everyone can find a place to worship."
Liebengood said that meeting new people was not intended to be a priority of the meetings.
"I don't think the students were clear on our goals," Liebengood said. "They were looking for more interaction and entertainment."
Chalfant said a lack of publicity probably was hurting attendance. Although the meetings were a good place for newcomers to explore their options, no one seemed to know about them ahead of time, she said.
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