University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 13.1973
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Host Families Program Flounders
By ZAHID IQBAL Kansan Staff Writer
The Lawrence Host Families Program, a local group which helps foreign students and American families get together, is designed to help host families to participate in the program.
Sibylle Barron, chairman of the program, said Saturday that at least 15 families were required for the foreign students who had enrolled this semester.
The program provides periodic social contact, she said, and does not entail any legal, financial or academic obligations on the part of the host family.
The families are encouraged to contact the student assigned to them in the first few weeks after his or her arrival in Lawrence. Subsequent meetings may be once a month and are not always an actual get-together, Barron said.
BARRON SAID THAT a student usually found new friends at school, and that meetings with families became unrequent in many cases. On the other hand, she said, many students managed to keep close contact with the families.
Many people who had participated in the program liked it, she said, and those who had discontinued the service had done so for personal reasons.
Barron said the meetings helped foreign students understand the American way of life and gave American families a chance to learn about a foreigner.
In many cases, members of the Lawrence community who were asked about the program had heard about it either directly or indirectly. All of them thought the idea of a foreign student to be useful but said they had no time to entertain foreign students in their homes.
One woman spoke of the need to remove "misunderstandings that exist between people of different countries." She said she would like to host a European student. She said she would not mind hosting someone from Asia or Africa, but she didn't know what she might have in common with such a student.
FEAR OF AN inability to communicate with foreigners was evident in the comparison between the Japanese and the French.
The students themselves do not consider communication a great barrier, and say that the program disappoints many because contact between the family and the student is difficult.
had lived with a foreign student last year and that, although he had no problems of communication, he knew foreign students 'tit in' and knew sometimes "not accepted."
One student said that foreign students expected too much from the program, which was just supposed to be an introduction to an American family. Closer contact, he said, depended on how much time the family volunteered.
Another student said the name of the program misled students into thinking that the host family here would play the role of a manager. The program organizer's insistence that this was not so,
HASNUKH R. MODI, a new arrival from India, was very excited about the program and at the prospect of meeting his host family.
"My host father had fad, his wife had fud,
his baby had fad and they did not want to
Modi said that when he was in India he had heard about "the famous American writer and activist who tried to participate. His expectations from the program were reflected in the comments made by other students, to some of whom a holiday could be to be with during holidays or weekends.
give me flu, so we have not met," he said. "But we will meet soon and I am very happy."
Joerg Paag, graduate student from Germany, said that he was all for the program but that he did not think "dinnerers are going to exchange an exchange of opinions and ideas."
His said he would like to relate to people his own age, not to old people who might sit down after a meal and expect him to provide an interchange of culture.
ASKED TO comment on some of the criticisms of the program, Barron said the organizers were reconsidering some of the operational procedures, and might devise changes that would make the program more satisfying to all concerned.
She complained that she had been unable
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A total of 781 pints was donated during the three-day drive, he said, compared with the goal-topping 807 pints given at KU in November. Spencer said blood drives had been conducted at the University for at least five years.
The blood drive at the University of Kansas last week took its goal of 600 pints for the second time in its history, Doug Spencer, Shawnee Mission sophomore and chairman of the spring Bloodmobile, said Monday.
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Many other persons, discouraged by the long waiting lines, left without giving blood.
About 200 persons who came to the Bloodmobile did not give blood, Spencer said. He said 40 or 50 persons each day were given temporary medical deferrals because of health problems. They will be allowed to donate血 at future drives.
A recent blood drive at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the drive at KU have helped to alleviate a sometimes dangerous shortage of blood at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, according to Ruth Bell, medical technician at the hospital.
Strickland was a retired business executive and civic leader from Mason City, Iowa. For many years he was manager of the company, which owned the city. The company served a large area in northern Iowa. He was at one time a member of the executive committee of the Kansas City Power and Light Co. and he served as a director to the farmers and Merchants State Bank in Colby.
During the 1962 Commencement exercises Strickland received a citation from the College of Pharmacy.
Spencer said that the blood donation process normally required about two hours, but that it was taking up to three hours to collect all of the blood and blood were given. The 18-bed Red Cross unit used in the drive was designed to process only 20 persons a day, he said.
He came back to KU for homecoming and commencement regularly according to Mildred Clofdifer, assistant secretary-treasurer of the Alumni Association. He also encouraged northern Iowa students to attend KU.
Charles Stickland, 80, a 1914 graduate of
College of Kansas, died Feb. 5 in
Scottsdale, Arizona.
Agnes Wright Strickland, Charles' mother was an 1887 graduate of KU.
Strickland and his brother and sister established the Agnes Wright Strickland School.
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award, which is under the supervision of the Endowment and Alumni Associations, will continue to be awarded.
The award, which gives the recipient a life membership in the Alumni Association, is given to outstanding seniors. Since 1969, it has been given to an outstanding senior man and woman.
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to get any significant feedback on the program from the students. Most comment
"How can you criticize what they are doing with such good intentions," a student said. "There is nothing wrong with the idea, only the way it disappoints many people. But you can't tell that to women who give valuable time to make us feel at home here. After all, they don't have to do it. They don't get any money."
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, said the program served a useful purpose. He said he realized that the brief contacts disappointed some students, but that the organizers made it clear that the program operated on a voluntary basis, according to the convenience of the host family and the student.
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