8A NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28 2009
DISTANCE (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Huddleston said the hardest part of her long-distance relationship was adjusting to not seeing her boyfriend often.
"Most people can't get over the insecurity of not seeing them all the time," Huddleston said. "But I think if you can make it work over thousands of miles, then you can make it work
They are only allowed 15 min-
Air Force, would call her every day for six months from Iraq.
"If you can make it work over thousands of miles ... you can make it work when you are 30 minutes away."
when you are 30 minutes away."
AMANDA HUDDLESTON
Kansas City, Kan,
sophomore
Paige Hendrick, Leawood junior, remembers when her then good friend David Dickey, who is in the
any answers I make on the phone," Hendrick said. "So he would call his family and speak to them for five minutes, then he would call me. It was so meaningful; he is an important person in my life."
Those phone calls sparked the beginning of a romantic
relationship between the two in summer of 2007. In February 2008, Dickey was sent to Germany. Because of the stress of the distance, they decided in April it would be best to date other people. During the time apart, they still kept in touch and talked to each other frequently.
Hendrick and Dickey recently got back together during an eleven-day trip travelling around Europe. Though it will be a year before Hendrick will see her boyfriend again, she has a newfound confidence in their relationship.
“It's when you really appreciate them that you realize that this could be the person you're going to be with,” she said. “That's what changed with us. We are lucky to have one another”
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HOUSING (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Diana Robertson, director of the Department of Student Housing, said her department, along with International Student Services, was committed to helping international students feel more at home.
Another advantage to living in McColum and Jayhawker Towers is that the buildings remain open during academic breaks. Robertson said the residences were popular with international students because the students usually staved in Lawrence.
Ramani said the best aspect of campus living for international students was forming relationships with the people around them. He said he enjoyed getting to know new people while living in McCollium Hall last year.
Esterenia Armanto, Jakarta,
Indonesia, sophomore, moved to
the towers this year and said her
favorite part of living there was having a kitchen to cook food from her home country. She said the drawback was that making friends could be especially hard because most international students were insecure about speaking English and stayed in their rooms.
"I remember the first time I rode a bus here and just looked at all the stops and buildings," Armanto said. "My English was terrible, and I think everyone just thought I was stupid."
Malaysia, said talking with other students was hard at first because of his accent. But he said that by becoming active in Lambda Phi Epsilon, the national Asian-American fraternity, he finally started feeling at home. Ramani is now the fraternity's vice president and said he has met people from the entire KU community.
The majority of international students request to live with American students to improve their English, but Robertson said limited space sometimes made it difficult to meet their preferences. Still, Robertson said the campus provided plenty of opportunities for international students to improve their language skills.
"It's a process that teaches you something." Ramani said. "It's a really good thing."
Armanto is a member of Student Union Activities. She said getting involved on campus was the first step she took in adjusting to the University.
Ramani, who spoke English in
"Joining SUA really helped me a lot," Armanto said. "I became more brave and was able to get out of my comfort zone, do new things and make new friends."
brarian and manga enthusiast, said she wasn't sure many American students would have the skills to illustrate and design a full manga graphic novel.
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She said American illustrators often copied the manga style, but that the illustrations lacked detail.
B0OK (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
"When I see American illustration, I can just tell somehow," Ito said.
"The Fastest Pig Goes to China" is a sequel to 2007's "The Fastest Pig in the West."
Hacker said the goal of writing and distributing the books was to get Kansas students interested in other cultures, especially those of China.
She said the interest would help students in college and beyond.
"Nobody works in an isolated world anymore." Hacker said. "Students who understand a different language — especially Chinese — have a leg up."
The two books feature a Kansasborn character inspired by Hacker's 13-year-old daughter.
Dee Hogan, Leavenworth junior and president of the KU Anime Club, said manga appealed to many different audiences because it was about telling stories.
Hacker said she decided to make the second book a manga graphic novel rather than a chapter book because she thought manga would appeal to her target audience.
"It's a different medium to American movies or books, but it does the same thing — tells good stories," Hogan said.
Charlotte Anderson, librarian at Central Junior High School in Lawrence, said manga was immensely popular with seventh- to ninth-grade students.
Randl Hacker's first book, "The Fastest Pig in the West," was her first for the Center for East Asian Studies Department. Her newest novel is a sequel *Lincoln* to a China.
"Sometimes it flies off the shelves," Anderson said. "It gets them thinking that they're not reading."
Anderson and Hacker said interest in the animation and East Asian pop culture was very high with the general public as well.
Hacker said the book would be published in both English and Chinese sometime late this summer. Interested students can e-mail Hacker at rhacker@ku.edu for details.
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NATIONAL
Woman delivers octuplets six boys and two girls
Three babies are being given
BELLFLOWER, Calif. — Newborn octuplets in Southern California are a feisty bunch that appear healthy even at nine weeks premature, a doctor said Tuesday.
oxygen but appeared to be doing well, said Dr. Mandhir Gupta, a neonatologist at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center. Two of the newborns were initially on ventilators but no longer need them.
"All babies were delivered vigorous, crying, kicking. Everyone was very excited," said Dr. Karen E. Maples, chief of service for obstetrics and gynecology and the physician who personally delivered Baby No. 8.
At least four could be ready for their first oral feeding later Tuesday.
resting comfortably Tuesday and was elated at welcoming eight children to her family, Gupta said.
The eighth baby surprised the parents and doctors who had prepared to deliver seven children.
The mother, who has not been identified, gave birth Monday to the six boys and two girls weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces, and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. She was
"It is quite easy to miss a baby when you're anticipating seven," said Dr. Harold Henry, chief of
maternal and fetal medicine and one of 46 doctors, nurses and assistants who delivered the children by Caesarean section.
Two of the newborns — the second live octuplets born in U.S. history — were initially put on ventilators but were later removed.
The mother checked into the hospital in her 23rd week
of pregnancy. Hospital officials would not say whether she had used fertility drugs, which make multiple births more likely.
The babies — dubbed with the letters A-through-H — will probably remain in the hospital for at least two months and the mother could be released in a week.
Associated Press