University Daily Kansan, March 3, 1981 Page 3
1,350 to attend Foreign Language Day
More than 1,300 high school students, twice the number originally expected, will participate in KU Foreign Language Day this Thursday. Ermal Garinger, director of KU's language laboratory, said yesterday.
"We first estimated that between 200 and 600 students would take advantage of the program," Garringer said. "We just expected students from the Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City areas to be here.
"Schools as far away as Wichita, Manhattan and Pittsburgh have pre-registered with us. We're very pleased with the response. About 40 teachers have registered more than 1,350 of their students."
would probably not cause any serious problems.
Garinger said the additional students
"We have to add additional class rooms for the in-class observation part of the program. Originally we had planned on using two Spanish classes and one each of French and German," he said.
"The afternoon cultural presentation will probably be moved from Woodruff Auditorium to the Ballroom in the hotel, but that shouldn't be a problem.
KU's Foreign Language Day is part of National Foreign Language Week. Garinger said that the week was in response to a 1980 study by a presidential commission that reported there was a "scandalous incompetence" in foreign language skills and training in the United States.
Activities for the KU event include:
displaying shoes and fencing
Activities for the KV Event include:
• A morning slide show and foreign language rally at Hoch Auditorium.
- High school students will sit in on University foreign language classes.
- Garinger said that the Foreign Language Day activities had a dual role.
- A cultural program including skits, folk dances and other entertainment native to foreign countries. This Summer program is in the Ballroom at the Kansas Union.
"This is to promote the study of foreign language in area schools, and incidentally, to promote the KU foreign language departments," he said.
NOW will sponsor benefit concert
The Lawrence chapter of the National Organization of Women is sponsoring a benefit concert for the Rights Amendment Thursday night.
Proceeds from the concert will be given to national NOW headquarters, where they will be distributed to chapters in unrattified states, a spokesman for Lawrence NOW said yesterday.
"It the concert will be a purely entertainment event," Clare Novak, public relations officer for the Lawrence NOW group, said. "It will be fun for people, but also a chance to contribute something to a good cause."
Featured performers at the concert will be Pam Lewis, a local singer; Holly Fischer and Annie Steward, a Kansas City, Mo., duet; New Reflections Through Women's Eyes, a Kansas City, Mo., group; and the Golden City Women's Bluegrass band, a Topeka group.
The concert will be held at Off-the-Wall Hall from 8 to 12 p.m. Tickets are $3, and are available at the Commission on the Status of Women office, B114 Kansas Union, or at the door on the day of the show.
The Lawrence chapter of NOW will also be co-sponsoring an ERA
petition drive March 4-6, Novak said.
"In conjuncture with the concert," Novak said, "the Commission on the Status of Women and our group are seeking signatures in support of the ERA movement in unrattained states."
Three more states are needed to ratify the ERA amendment before it becomes part of the Constitution, Novak said.
"Illinois, Missouri, and North Carolina are all states that could swing either way now," Novak said. "We plan to send our petition to unratified states to let them know that ERA is still an important issue.
City sues for faulty warning system
The City of Lawrence has filed a suit against an alarm systems company for the replacement of an alarm system failed to work during a fire last month.
In a petition filed Friday, the Housing Authority of the City of Lawrence said that Security Control Systems, Inc., 1811 St. Andrews Dr., installed a faulty fire protection and warning system in Babcock Place, 1709 Massachusetts St.
Babcock City is a low-income apartment building and government office.
The petition said that when a small fire broke out at Babcock Place Feb. 13, the alarm system failed to function. An inspection by the fire prevention department later revealed several defects in the system.
The petition said that "the wire used
in the system was smaller than appropriate; the control box was not new, but approximately five years old; the system required two control boxes instead of the one used; and the zones had been shorted across."
The Housing Authority demanded that Security Control Systems immediately repair the defects in the system. However, at the time of the filing, the system had still not been repaired.
On the Record
LAWRENCE POLICE are investigating the theft Sunday of two speakers, valued at $100, from Julie's Restaurant, 3214 Iowa St. The thieves unlocked the rear door of the restaurant to take the speakers, police said.
THEIVES TOOK a car stereo system,
valued at $170, and several cassettes,
valued at $180, from a truck purchase.
For $240, it would be Sunday.
A THEIF STOLE a 1975 Suzuki
motorcycle Friday from the parking lot of Jayhawker Towers, police said. The motorcycle was valued at $600.
THIEVES BROKE into a glass display case in the Visual Arts Building in early February and took some copper etchings, KU police said yesterday. The etchings were on loan from the Fine Arts Gallery of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Sarasova and Yugoslavia in New York.
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