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University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1984
Lessons offered in water safety
The Red Cross is offering a water safety instructor class at the Lawrence High School pool, beginning at 7 tonight.
The class is open to anyone 17 or older who has a current advanced lifesaving certificate.
Classes will be every Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. and every Saturday from 9 to noon, through April 4.
There is a $12 pool fee and a $3 charge for books.
For further information about the class, call Jo Byers at the Red Cross office in the Community Building.
Twelve to spend break in Moscow
By ROB STROUD
Staff Reporter
While others relax on the Florida beaches during spring break, 12 KU students will be basking in the winter chill of Moscow.
Larry Metger, chairman of the Student Senate Rights Committee and organizer of the trip, said the students were going on the trip principally for recreation, but he said the trip would serve two purposes.
“It’s semi-educational and semi-recreational,” he said. “The main thing we do is to get the students of the Konsonol. We’ll also get to see all the tourist attractions.”
The Komsomol is the Young Communist League, which most college students join.
"They are the link with the government for the indocrination of the Soviet youth," Metzger said.
The KU students, who are each paying $1,156 for the eight-day trip, will each have a chance to exchange questions and answers with representatives of the Komosomol, but they still need a translator.
Metzger said he had a three-year-old's vocabulary in Russian and that none of the others going on the trip spoke any Russian.
Metzger said he saw a benefit in this.
"The opportunity this trip offers that others don't is that people not proficient in the language are offered more than a tourist's "trip."
The students also will visit the Bolshoi Ballet, an art gallery, the Lenin Mausoleum and G.U.M. Department of Music, the Mayy of Moscow, Metzger队.
The students also can expect to discuss politics, according to Gerald Mikkelson, associate professor of Slavic language and literature.
"They can expect to be engaged in some rather active political debates," he said. "They'll try to present a very nice picture of what it's like there."
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Athletic Director Bob Marcum left yesterday for the meeting, which convenes today in Kansas City, Mo., for conference athletic directors. The meeting will continue tomorrow with a joint meeting of athletic directors and faculty representatives and will end Saturday night after a meeting of the faculty representatives.
Eight faculty representatives, said the March conference meeting traditionally centered on arrangements involving the Big Eight post-season tournament, now in progress.
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Conference officials discuss rule changes
Big Eight Conference officials said yesterday that this weekend's quarterly meeting of athletic directors and faculty representatives would focus on "housekeeping" matters.
"We'll discuss rules and regulations that need to be changed based on 1981 changes in NCAA regulations," Prentice Gautt, assistant commissioner of the Big Eight, said.
Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism and chairman of Big
Gauit said post-season basketball, television contracts, financial concerns of the conference and academic eligibility may also be taken. The instruction would be taken on these matters until the next meeting in May.
the agenda is full." Brinkman said, "but most of its routine. The commissioner will tell us what is in the way we need to act on the kinds of things need to be acted on."