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Monday. February 15, 1993
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Attention Undergraduate Students
Nominations are now being accepted for the Graduate Student Teacher Award.
The Graduate Student Council and the KU Endowment Association are sponsoring five awards to recognize excellence in teaching by a graduate at KU. Anyone may nominate a graduate teacher, or a graduate lab supervisor, by
filling out a nomination form available in the academic departments or atthe Graduate School, Room 222, Strong
Hall. Letters of nomination should be submitted to the Graduate School no later than Friday, February 19th. For further information, please call the Graduate School at 864-
3301 or Graduate Student Council at 864-4914.
ON CAMPUS
The Office of Minority Affairs will hold a Step Seminar from 4 to 5 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Roland Diaz will speak on effective English theme writing. For more information, call Diaz at 864-4351.
The Office of Study Abroad will hold an informational meeting at 4 p.m. today in 4033 Wescoe Hall for students interested in studying in French-speaking countries.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will hold its business meeting at 7:30 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union.
OAKS-Non-Traditional Students Association will hold its brown bag lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Rock Chalk Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Kris McCusker at 864-7317.
The Office of Study Abroad will hold an informational meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow in 156 Strong Hall for students interested in studying in Spanish-speaking countries.
Aunmey International will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Danelle Myron at 832-8337.
KU Gamers and Role Players will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Burge Union lobby. For more information, call Alex Baker at 843-6250 or Laura Hanson at 842-6887.
Inspirational Gospel Voices will rehearse from 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Murphy Hall.
Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Suzanne Racine at 864-4256 or 749-2174.
and Feb. 2 from Nichols Hall, KU police reported.
$1,700 in cash was taken from a residence Friday in the 900 block of Rockledge Road, Lawrence police reported.
ON THE RECORD
Eight Nintendo games, one Nintendo game system and one carrying case, valued together at $498, were taken between Jan. 4 and Jan. 25 from a business in the 1700 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police reported.
A student's vehicle, valued at $4,000, was taken between Feb. 1 and Thursday from the 200 block of North Michigan Street, Lawrence police reported.
A student's bag containing clothes and books, valued together at $165, was taken Feb. 7 from a business near the intersection of 10th and Massachusetts streets, Lawrence police reported.
An office postage scale, valued at $70 was taken between Jan 29
STORM ADVISORY
Kansan staff report
A winter storm watch is in effect for much of Kansas today. According to the KU Weather Service, the storm is expected to dump five to eight inches of snow in the area.
The storm began in New Mexico and Arizona and was traveling north along the Kansas-Missouri border yesterday.
shortly after midnight and continue throughout today. Forecasters said the snow should taper off by tomorrow.
A blast of arctic air is expected to arrive this afternoon, creating subzero windchill temperatures. Today's high will be 28 degrees. Temperatures in the teens are predicted for tonight. By tomorrow, temperatures are expected to be in the single digits.
The snow was expected to begin
Students of former USSR study at KU
the remainder is German, Ukrainian and other nationalities. The country is the second largest of the commonwealth states.
Before the Soviet Union dissolved, Kazakistan was an agricultural base for the other republics. Karymsakov said. The country is feeling weaning pains, despite its wealth of natural resources, which include oil, chrome, ore and gold.
"Now we're kind of cut off from other and we're in trouble," he said. "We need technology, equipment and everything else."
Karymsakov estimated that it would take up to 50 years before privatization took hold in his homeland, a place where the people were struggling to see the benefits of a free-market system.
"The system that was barely working, but was working, is not working at all now," he said. "Now they can put any price on a product and the people are just forced to buy it, because they have a monopoly on it. This is not a free market at all."
After this semester Karymsakov will go back to his hometown, Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan, where his family lives, but he said the idea of returning to the United States for graduate studies appealed to him. He said he eventually would like to return home to become a political leader, a person he described as "someone who cares the most, who loves the most, has a big heart and whom the people really want as their leader."
Alan Holiman, director of the KU exchange program, said he anticipated growth in the number of students from the Commonwealth of Independent States attending U.S. universities, although economic conditions and the nonconvertible ruble were creating formidable obstacles.
"It's hard for them to get the tickets they need and to get the money they need to live on, but, yes, more and more of them are coming." Holman said.
Of all the U.S. universities participating in the exchange, KU plays host to the most students, Hollian said. In addition to Karymsakov, 14 students from Russia, five from Ukraine and one from Kyrgyzstan are participating in the exchange with KU.
Kyrgyzstan, like Kazakhstan, never had been represented on KU's campus before this semester.
SEE THE CLASSIFIEDS
Mac is back in town.