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VOLUME 120 ISSUE 87
HOUSING
Foreign students find homes off campus
BY KAYLA REGAN
kregan@kansan.com
When international students arrive at the University, they have to adjust to new food, new friends and new living arrangements. The majority are choosing to do so off campus.
Prasath Ramani, Klang, Malaysia, junior, lives on campus at layhawker Towers. He said he would probably move off campus in the summer because it was difficult to rely on campus buses and the food didn't fit his vegetarian diet. Still, he said he would recommend on-campus living to any new international student coming to the University.
This year only 30 percent of the 1,740 international students chose on-campus housing.
The University recommends international students consider one of 23 on-campus housing opportunities.
"I'm proud of KU, and I would definitely say living on campus is the best place for international students," Ramani said. "Except the food. I can't recommend eating on campus."
The towers house 157 of the 538 international students who live on campus. The eight residence halls house 178 international students, and 48 live in the scholarship halls. The remainder live in other campus housing such as Stouffer Place.
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Number of international students enrolled each year
Fall 2005:1,500
Fall 2006:1,524
Fall 2007:1,624
Fall 2008:1,740
Top 5 countries international students call home
428. China
205. India
190. Republic of Korea
127. Saudi Arabia
67. Taiwan
University students grapple with the positives and negatives of long-distance relationships
BY MICOLE ARONOWITZ maronowitz@kansan.com
In March, for the first time in four months, Amanda Huddleston will be able to hug her boyfriend.
Huddleston, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, is in a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend, Ali Bazzi. He is currently in Baumholder, Germany and will soon be deployed to Iraq.
Huddleston and Bazzi dated for five months despite knowing Bazzi would soon be deployed again.
"I knew it was a possibility," Huddleston said. "I don't think it's a reason not to give it a shot."
According to an article published in the 2007 journal of Social Psychology, one third of all dating relationships among university students are long distance.
Tamara Mikinski, licensed psychologist and lecturer in the department of psychology and research in education, said the success or failure of long-distance relationships depended on the needs of the couple and of the individuals.
"it actually think it's not a negative thing," Mikinski said. "It's great for people to pursue their individual goals."
Huddleston said she and her boyfriend usually talked to each other two or three times each day.
"It's hard, especially because we are on a seven-hour time difference," Huddleston said. "It's difficult to find a time when it works for both of us to talk on the phone. It's kind of awkward because it is early morning for me and late night for him."
To avoid missing phone calls, she said, Bazzi texted her with good times to call.
"It's something I had to get used to," Huddleston said. "I couldn't just call him whenever I wanted to.
Before Bazzi leaves for Iraq he will have to deactivate his cell phone so that he cannot be traced. Huddleton said she would be able to talk to him on the computer.
"That's something I am not looking forward to," Huddleston said.
Huddleston said her relationship made her stronger and helped her
see the bigger picture.
"We don't argue as much, whereas when you see someone everyday there is more of a tendency for little stuff to start to irritate you," she said.
"We don't really get that because we don't see
each other all the time."
Mikinski said relationships where one person was put in dangerous situations had a unique set of stressors.
"When the person is gone, they are not that accessible to working through things and getting to know each other at a typical dating pace," Mikinski said.
Amanda Huddleston and Ali Bazzi
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Amanda Huddleston, right, and boyfriend Ali Bazzi, who is stationed in Baumholder, Germany, met in 2007. Huddleston and Bazzi talk by phone daily and will have limited communication when he is deployed to Iraq later this year.
Graphic by Brenna Hawley/KANSAN
Randi Hacker, outreach coordinator of the Center for East Asian Studies has written her second book and is looking for a student to design the artwork, which will be in the traditional Japanese manga style.
Libby Napoli/ KANSAN
ART
Competition seeks illustrators
Students have the opportunity to win $2,500 and a contract to illustrate and design a graphic novel targeted at middle-school aged children through a competition sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
anarry@kansan.com
The winner will receive $2,500 and design traditional Japanese style artwork for novel
The contract is for "the Fastest Pig Goes to China," a book written
by Randi Hacker, outreach coordinator for the center.
Students interested in manga illustration, a traditional Japanese style of print drawing, can submit work for the competition throughout the month of February.
A panel that will include the book's author and the program director will choose the winner in March.
Bill Tsutsi, associate dean for international studies and director of the book project, said he opened the illustration and design contest for students to "get any and all students as involved as possible" in the study of East Asian culture.
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He described the competition as a "great opportunity" for a student interested in getting his or her artwork published.
Manga is a hobby for Maylene Morgan, Wichita senior, and she said she was interested in submitting for the competition.
She said that the task of illustrating and designing an entire book was "a little daunting," but that it would be an exciting opportunity.
Michiko lto, Japanese studies li-
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