CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 8. 1985
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Larry Funk/KANSAN
Bob Livingston and Charlie Patton, facilities operations landscape department employees, prepare to fertilize an iris bed near Lindley Hall. Patton said yesterday that he hoped it would rain last night and that the weekend would be nice.
Kansas oil plant lays off workers
By United Press International
EL DORADO - The Pester Corp. has laid off 112 people at its south central Kansas oil refinery and anticipates to cut an additional 18 workers by the end of the month, company officials said yesterday.
Workers have known that their jobs were in jeopardy since the Des Moines-based company announced its plans for reorganization under Chapter II.
Pester is the second largest employer in El Dorado. Texaco Inc.'s oil refinery employes 500 people.
After telling the employee at the end of Tuesday's shift that they were
out of work, the company announced the layoffs the next dav.
An employee at the state's Job Service Center in El Dorado said yesterday that 87 Pester workers had been employed for unemployment benefits Wednesday.
Many workers said Wednesday that the layoffs probably were permanent and that they would begin looking for new jobs.
The Chamber of Commerce today announced that a meeting had been scheduled for Monday for Pester
employees to help them find new jobs or opportunities for which they might be eligible.
Marjorie Harcrow, executive vice president of the chamber, said local officials were acting on the assumption that the plant would not be shut down. She said city officials had no contact with the employees would be recalled.
The El Dorado plant refines approximately 30,000 barrels of oil daily, a low amount by industry standards.
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Chinese law profs visit KU
Staff Reporter
U. S. China relations took a step forward Wednesday with the arrival on campus of delegates from the Peking University law school.
The delegates are here to establish a faculty exchange program and probably a student exchange program with his colleague. Davis, dean of law, said yesterday.
Zhang Guohua, dean of the Peking law school, which is the largest school at the University of Peking, came to campus with three law books and an interpreter. Their four-day visit is scheduled to end tomorrow.
Zhang said he wanted to establish a short-term exchange program of several weeks, and a long-term exchange (six weeks) between the two schools' faculties.
The delegates want to start an exchange program with the KU School of Law because they consider it the best in the country, Zhang said.
ALTHOUGH NO formal agreement had been made between the two schools, Davis said that as of yesterday afternoon, both sides were eager to make final plans before the delegation left tomorrow.
The delegates explored the East Asian Library on the fifth floor of Watson Library yesterday afternoon after attending a morning law class. Chinese business in which they described markets in China, Zhang said.
Zhang said, "I am very interested in the teaching methods they use to teach us, and I am impressed with the libraries, especially the East Asian Library."
Today the delegation plans to tour the Douglas County courts and jails and attend a banquet at the Lawrence Country Club, where they will watch the KU-IO State basketball game on a big-screen television.
"I WAS MOST impressed by the hospital I have received from the dean and professors, 'Zhang said. "I was glad that the chancellor received me."
The Peking law school is the oldest and most prestigious law school in China, Davis said.
He said that it was important for
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KU law students to have a knowledge of Chinese law, which the visiting professors from Peking could give them.
"Political and economic relations with China have blossomed in the last few years." Davis said. "It would be advantage having their faculty here."
"There is no doubt that our graduates in practice will come into contact with the Chinese, especially in oil and gas, where the Chinese are dealing with U.S. companies constantly."
'Political and economic relations with China have blossomed in the last few years. It would be a great advantage having their faculty here.'
Michael Davis dean of law
The school has 151 faculty members, and more than 40 have assistant or full-professor status.
Peking delegates also saw an advantage to having KU professors teach in Peking.
"DISCOVERING U.S. law will nep our students compare the two legal systems that are so different," Zhang said.
Mon Yin Lung, lead of catalogus at the KU School of Law, said that in Peking, it took 15-20 years of teaching before becoming an assistant law professor.
The Peking law school has a four-year undergraduate and a four-year graduate law program. Of the 1,200 students in the law school, 1,000 are undergraduates, said Yang Chunxi, the law professor.
Davis said Chinese law was both old and new. It dates back to recorded time, but many of China's legal institutions had to be rebuilt after the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
THEN IT TAKES another five years and a major publication by a assistant professor to become a law officer, or master of law, Zhang said.
In 1983, the international director of the administration of education in Peking sent a delegation to the United States and all members agreed to try to establish exchanges at the University of Kansas, Zhang said.
Davis said he had established an itinerary for the delegation that allowed the Chinese to see most of the country. He said he had arranged with the deans of law schools at other universities to have the delegation spend about three days at their schools.
Zhang and the other delegates, Shen Zongling, Jin Ruilin and Yang Churxi, have been in the United States since Feb. 23. Their interpreter, Wei Chun, a visiting scholar and former faculty member at Columbia University, accompanies the delegation.
Their 11-stop tour includes the University of Washington and the University of British Columbia. They also plan to travel to Yale University and Columbia University.
At the law schools at these universities, the professors plan to give lectures on the Chinese legal system, environmental law, criminal law and history of the legal system, Shen said.
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