Friday, April 22, 1994
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The Broadway Series...Ladysmith Black Mambazo ... The Kennedy Center's Alice in Wonderland...
It's all at the Lied Center during the 1994-1995 Season
THE BROADWAY SERIES
Evita October 17,1994 Oliver! February 5,1995 Cats May 5-7,1995 tickets for KU and Haskell students $75 and $61 for all three shows.
SPECIAL EVENTS
The Kennedy Center National Tour of Alice in Wonderland February 26, 1995 KU and Haskell students: $6.00 and $5.00.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo February 28, 1995 KU and Haskell students: $15.00 and $12.50.
Special offer for KU and Haskell Indian Nations students...Season tickets to the Broadway Series and Special Events may be purchased through the Lied Center box office (913) 864-ARTS, and will go on sale April 18 to KU and Haskell students only. General public and KU faculty and staff may purchase season tickets beginning May 16. Current season ticket holders can renew any time from now until April 25 in order to retain their same seats. The Broadway Series and Special Events are not a part of the All-Arts package through Optional Fees during registration.
September will be here before you know it, so get your tickets now before you leave for the summer!
Bolivian ambassador to speak on changing global economy
By Angelina Lopez Kansan staff writer
Edgar Camacho Omiste, Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations, will be speaking at KU to explain the North American Free Trade Agreement, the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade and other trade agreements and their effects on developing countries.
NAFTA and GATT are acronyms that few students fully understand.
Camacho will lecture on "The Changes in the International System from the Perspective of the Developing Countries" at 6 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
agreements comes from his work as the coordinator and director of the Cartagena Agreement in 1971-72, an agreement that called for the economic integration of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia.
Camacho's experience with trade
In 1970 and in 1985, he served as Bolivia's minister of foreign relations. He became the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations in 1993.
"The initiative to bring Camacho to campus came entirely from student organizations," said Jeff Weinberg, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and president of the Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society, one of the groups that is sponsoring Camacho's visit.
The International Council, a group made up of faculty advisers and representatives of all international students on campus, originally developed the idea after a suggestion from Alfonso Canedo, a Bolivian member of the council.
"Students will have the opportunity to hear firsthand information about changes in the economic system from someone who's been directly related," said Canedo, Cochahamba, Bolivia, graduate student.
Canedo said that several faculty and student organizations gave money and manpower to facilitate Camancho's trip.
Although Camacho did not want money to speak, Canedo said, the groups raised $800 to pay for travel expenses.
Center to improve Lawrence links
Bv Gennifer Trail
By Gennifer Trail Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
OVERLAND PARK—The University of Kansas created a new position at the Regents Center in an effort to expand distance education and television education.
On April 1, Sherman Yacher, graduate student in institutional technology and curriculum design, began his new job as manager of distance education and media at the center, 12600 Quivira Rd.
Yacher said that his job was created because the University wanted to grow with a new trend in education.
"The trend in education is going towards making university services available when it is convenient for the student rather than for the university," Yacher said. "Up until now, the system has been the gatekeeper for when people can change and progress. That will not be the case anymore."
text, he said. Video footage, photographs, drawings, music and speech can be included to make the material more interesting and userfriendly.
Yacher said that one example of distance education was utilizing the Internet, which is a series of linked computer networks. The Internet is already used in KU libraries to access information from other computer systems throughout the world.
Yacher said that he would be programming the system to make curriculum available to teachers and students to use at their convenience. The curriculum will not be limited to just
Yacher said that in his job he would be concentrating most on expansion of television courses. The University now broadcasts seven television courses from the Lawrence campus to the Regents Center. Yacher said that he and other administrators at the center would be talking with leaders of academic departments to promote television courses. He said the television courses allowed students in the Kansas City area to take Lawrence campus courses at night without having to drive thirty or forty miles.
"There is room for a lot of growth in television classes," Yacher said. "We could load the schedule up. We aim to satisfy students, our customers. We're using television classrooms as the horse to do that."
However, David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that expansion of television courses at the Regents Center would be difficult.
"We could expand a little more, but we don't have the studio or transmission capabilities to increase the numbers very much," he said.
Yacher said that the center planned to place microphones at every seat in the center studio for television classes. The students now have to pass around a telephone when they want to communicate with the class in Lawrence.
Yacher said that the University would also like to install a camera system which automatically would zoom in on a student when that student talked. He said that he hoped the University would be able to create more television classrooms in the next few years.
"There are many more things we would like to do," he said. "We have champagne taste, but we have a Papst Blue Ribbon budget."
Beverly Worster, Lawrence graduate student in special education, said that she and many other students would like to see more television classes.
"Television classes should be used more, but from the student's point of view, there should be no more than two sites," she said. "You start to lose people after that."
Yacher said that television courses were going to be vital to the educational health of Kansas City-area students in the future.
"If a person doesn't have the opportunity to plug into education and retool, they're in bad shape," he said. "In order to give people tools, they're going to need education when it's convenient for them."