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Wednesdav. February 27. 1980
University Daily Kansan
Culture clash confronts scholar
By RICK HELLMAN Staff Reporter
About 65 people gathered in the Kansas Union last night to hear a speech by a man who described himself as a "split personality."
The man was Wing-tit Chan, philosopher and scholar, who spoke on "Living in Two Civilizations: A Personal Observation."
Chan, who was born in a small village in South China, said the conflict between Eastern and Western culture started for him at a very young age.
On his first visit to Lingan university, where he received his bachelor's degree, he waded into the wall of the washroom and my clothes were suddenly wet. It was a shower. I waited.
AT LINGAN, Chan's ideas were meant for a school of Western thought. Chan wrote in an article about school's weekly newspaper entitled "Down with Filtle Fillers" - or down with his own views.
Chan sent a copy of the article to his father.
"It returned without comment," he said, "but there were traces of tears on the paper."
And the clash between Chan's Chinese upbringing and his exposure to American culture was accentuated when he came to United States in 1924 to study at Harvard.
His Chinese concept of harmony was also severely challenged by Chan's experiences in America.
"The American culture impressed me as being one of conflict and competition." he said.
AS AN example, Chan said, he found the american style of dress "hilarious," and so he wore a suit and a tie when applause began. He says Chinese gown when relaxing at home.
Chan said he thought some conflict was good but that Americans overemphasize conflict.
"In China our temples are to poets and painters," he said.
By BILL MENEZES
Students could face stricter aid standards
stain reporter
KU students receiving financial aid may
soon face further standards for keeping it
The University Senate Committee on Financial Aid to Students has proposed a stricter scope of academic standards for determining financial aid eligibility.
Under the proposed standard, students receiving financial aid must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.00 by the end of their fourth semester at KU.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, and yesterday that the standards were used in making the decision to students to make "reasonable academic progress" in order to be eligible for federal aid.
The current standard gives students nine semesters to reach a 2.00 cumulative grade point average.
Rogers, an ex officio member of the Committee on Financial Aid to Students, said the government lets individual students take their standards of reasonable progress.
The committee, however, thought that KU's were too low.
"We're not trying to hold aid away from those trying to graduate," he said. "We're trying to develop minimum standards for students on financial aid.
"There is a responsibility to the taxpayers that people receiving aid succeed in school."
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ROGERS SAID he did not think too many students would be affected by a switch to the proposed system.
"I would think the number of students not having a 2.0 grade point average after two years would be minimal," he said.
The committee, in a report sent to the University Senate executive committee last week, said that current standard requiring a graduation from fourth semester students is too low.
The report said this standard was lower than those set by the professional schools for admission of students as juniors. After August, 1808, it would also be lower than the 2.00 grade point average that will be required in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
THE COMMITTEE said that by keeping the lower standards, students on probation in their schools could still receive financial aid.
The committee also suggested the alternative of making the student's minimum grade point average the one set by the student's school.
The School of Journalism and School of Education require a minimum 2.2 grade point average for students.
ROGERS SAID the office of financial aid has had difficulty screening out students who may be忍耐able for aid the second semester, but were unable to form a year, but were eligible the first semester.
Such students, he said, often received aid payments for the second semester before it was discovered they were ineligible.
SenEx has not yet taken any action toward the committee's recommendations.
--solar activity might pose a threat to space travelers, he said.
Increased sun activity may affect radio waves
BY DON MUNDAY Staff Manager
Staff Reporter
The sun will be more active in the next few months during the peak of an 11-year cycle, but its effects will principally be disruptions of electronic communications.
"Shortwave radio is usually disrupted by flares the greatest." Shawl said.
According to Stephen Shawl, associate professor of physics and astronomy, the earth's surface is a greater number of solar flares and sunspots, which can cause annoying weather.
Transmissions from distant AM and FM stations, however, might also be hampered.
"The ionosphere reflects radio waves, so radio communication is disrupted when the ionosphere is disturbed."
"Flares eject large numbers of protons and electrons, which are trapped in the earth's atmosphere." The electrons interact with the earth's ionosphere. "The ionosphere reflects radio waves, so radio communication is when the ionosphere is disturbed."
TELEVISION RECEPTION is basically immune to solar activity, he said, because televised waves do not bounce off the ionosphere.
Normally such particles pose no problem for humans, Shawl said, although at high altitudes the protective blanket of atmosphere is not as dense.
Peak periods of solar activity mean increased numbers of flares, which are sometimes observed in surface. The eruptions fing high-energy particles outward, some of which reflect back to the surface.
Certain precautions are made during peak activity periods, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, because provides less protection. High-flying aircraft, which travel between the United States and Europe over the polar ice sheets, also needs a major flare $e$ affects reach the earth.
ABOVE THE ionosphere, increased
"Back in the years of the space program, there was always the fear that astronauts might be up in space in a really super flare erupted," he said. A satellite affected by the solar storms, perhaps even lethally, but we just don't know."
Solar activity has been picking up since a lull in the mid-1970s, and has caused minor changes in the upper atmosphere.
Bar owners sponsor fund-faiser
A thirsty, post-basketball game crowd found three of its favorite haunts closed last night in support of a bar owners fund-raiser offering the $10,000 to raise the 3.2 beer drinking age from 18 to 18.
The Jayhawk Cafe, 1340, Ohio, the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th, and the Harbour Lites, 1631 Massachusetts St., closed for the evening.
Signs on the three buildings directed customers to the fund-raiser at the Off-The-Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St.
The Lawrence Tavern Owners Association sponsored the event, which attracted 150 people and raised $700. The charity charged $250 at the door and a pitcher.
Tavern owners donated 10 kegs of beer for the twelve-hour party.
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