Friday, April 24, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Brazil official visits University
By Marc Sheforgen
msheforgen@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Brazil is emerging as an economic power and has more similarities to the United States than many students might realize, said Julios Victor, deputy consul of Brazil, while he was at the University of Kansas yesterday.
Victor spoke to a group of 25 students in Melissa Birch's Business Culture and Society in Latin America class. The 90-minute lecture aimed to teach students about the economic stabilization Brazil has implemented and how the country may relate to the United States in the future.
victor said because of stereotypes inherent in human nature, the people of these two countries did not always understand one another. He said many U.S. residents did not fully realize the
importance of Brazil, a country with the 10th largest economy in the world.
How much do KU students know about Brazil?
Maybe that it is the largest country in South America, or that the native tongue is Portuguese. But many don't know that behind the United States, Brazil has the largest Internet use in the world.
Victor said although Brazil is on a different scale than the United States, the two countries have more in common than students realize. And it continues to grow economically.
"We are on the right track for continental stability and economic growth," Victor told his audience. "I think that you will hear about Brazil in the future, very, very frequently."
For six consecutive years, the Brazilian economy has grown, Victor said.
Bringing Victor to the University was a coordinated effort between the Brazilian Portuguese Organization and the business school.
Birch said many of the students in her class may be interested in doing business with Brazil in the future and she hoped they got a Brazilian point of view on a number of issues that will be crucial in the future.
Alex Montgomery-Soares, president of the Brazilian Portuguese Organization, said with Brazil's economic stabilization, Brazilian currency, the real, correlated roughly one-to-one with the American dollar.
Montgomery re-emphasized Victor's message, saying although the Brazilian economy is one-tenth that of the United States, it is an economic world power and one that will become more recognizable in the future.
Sunflower House sprouts again
By Carl Kaminski
ckaminski@kansan.com
Kamasan staff writer
Demand for a room at the Sunflower House co-op has been so strong the University of Kansas Student Housing Association is buving another house.
The housing association is looking for a house with about 10 bedrooms, said Greg Seibel, expansion project manager and Newton graduate student.
"It's definitely going to be smaller than the Sunflower House," Seibel said. The Sunflower House houses 31 people at 1406 Tennessee St.
The Sunflower House is owned by the housing association, a group of community members, and is not affiliated with the University.
Ken Stoner, University of Kansas Director of Student Housing, said the association got its name before the University had a department for student housing.
Seibel said the association was looking at two houses around the same area. One is on Kentucky Street and the other is north of campus near Ninth and Indiana streets.
Seibel said he did not keep track
of how many people were usually turned away after the Sunflower House filled up, but said it was enough to fill a second house easily.
"We usually fill up for the fall sometime in April," Seibel said. "We are already close to the limit."
Co-ops were popular in Lawrence between the 1920s and the mid-1950s when the residence halls opened.
It was not until 1969 the Sunflower House, then called the Campus Improvement Association House, was restarted. Since then, it has been the only co-op where the residents own the house.
rne scholarship halls fill the niche the co-ops once held, Stoner said.
He said the recent trend in student housing had been toward more privacy and amenities.
Seibel said one of the advantages of living in a co-op was the privacy it offered, while still maintaining a group environment.
Residents at Sunflower House pay between $155 and $212, utilities included, for a room, plus about $35 a month for food. Every Monday evening, residents meet to divide chores such as cooking and cleaning. Seibel said.
Co-op blooms Owners of Sunflower House Co-op consider expanding
M. D. Bradshaw/KANSAN
Seibel said after seeing the popularity of co-ops at other universities during a recent conference held by the North American Students Cooperation group in Ann Arbor, Mich. he was confident that co-ops in Lawrence could grow.
"There's a good chance that we would open up more in the future," he said. "We're feeling pretty confident right now."
He said universities like Michigan and the University of Texas had large co-op organizations with hundreds of students.
He said with more publicity and advertising, co-ops would attract more students.
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