University Daily Kansan, September 12, 1983 Page 3
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Woodyard to receive honor from alma mater in Illinois
George Wooody, acting dean of the University of Kansas graduate
university, receive one of four Eastern Illinois 1983 Distinguished
Alumnus awards.
Woodyard joined KU's department of Spanish and Portuguese in 1966 after receiving a bachelor's degree in education from Eastern Illinois University and after completing his doctoral studies in Spanish at the University of Illinois at Champlin's Urbana.
He will be one of four alumni honored on Oct. 1 during homecoming at Eastern Illinois University.
Eastern Illinois' Alumni Association selects candidates for the award on the basis of candidates' accomplishments and contributions to their
Woodyard is associate vice chancellor of academic affairs and is also a professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
Study abroad workshop scheduled
A workshop for KU students who studied in foreign countries during the 1982-83 school year will be held tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
the 1982-83 school year will be held tomorrow in the Kansas Union. The "Re-Entry Workshop" will begin at 3 p.m. It will be conducted by the office of study abroad.
PITTSBURG — One of the newest national journals dealing with intensive English programs is published by Pittsburg State University and is receiving favorable responses from as far away as Europe and the Soviet Union.
The publication is called "The American Language Journal" and lists a number of scholars on its geographically-represented board of staff.
"There is a growing interest in the publication and it is being recognized as a quality contribution to the field," said Collen Gray, the journal's editor.
The annual publication is sent to approximately 1,000 programs, including every intensive English program in the United States and departments in every university that offer masters programs with emphasis in English as a second language.
KU students head overseas to studv
Two KU graduate students in the department of Slavic languages and literature who received fellowships in the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program left last week to begin their yearlong research.
Michael L. Vezilich will be carrying on research in Yugoslavia, and Timothy Pogacar will be doing research in the Soviet Union.
The Fulbright-Hays program pays tuition, room and board, and travel expenses to and from the countries.
ON THE RECORD
About $800 in cash was stolen sometime between Aug. 31 and Sept. 10, from Gill's Standard service station, 2301 Louisiana St., police said. It has not been determined how the money was stolen. There are no suspects.
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JRP-Lewis places 2nd in division
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Tired and sunburned from a two-day, 70-mile canoe race down the Kaw River, KU and Kansas State University caneists were winners yesterday as they crossed the finish line at Burcham Park.
Buddy Ferguson, St. Charles, Ill., freshman; Julie Naggs, Bettendorf, Iowa, freshman, and Wendy Eckert, St. Louis freshman, pull their oars at the finish of the Kaw River Canoe Race. Their team, Rogues II, finished third in the independent competition yesterday.
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The Rogues, a canoe team first formed by KU students and alumni in 1972, won the independent division of the 15th annual KU-State canoe race. K-State's Rivercats finished second at the University of Kansas, placed third.
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The Rogues completed the course in 16 hours, 52 minutes, 39 seconds. Competitors said times were slower because of winds and the river's low water level.
IN THE RESIDENCE hall division, Haymaker II from K-State placed first. KU's Joseph R. Pearson Hall-Lewis Hall team finished second and K-State's Van Zile residence hall came in third.
Keith Siemsen, K-State's cochairman of the race, said that 21 K-State teams and 14 KU teams entered. Each canoe had to have three people in the boat at one time and the combination had to be coed.
George Treu, the captain of the Rogues, said his team was formed in 1972 and consisted primarily of KU alumni. The Rogue's members have changed during the last 11 years. Several members of the team are
The Rogues K-State counterpart, the Rivercats, also has members that have
Through the years, the annual race becomes increasingly competitive between
BUT JOE WILLARD, who has competed in the KU-State race five times and is currently captain of the team, did he not enjoy this year's rivalry.
"I came to win, that's all that
I need," he said. "I'm seriously
considering retirement."
Others in the race didn't take it quite so seriously, however.
Members of the JRP-Lewis team were not disappointed by their second-place finish in the residence hall division.
"This is better than we expected," said Molly Martin, Louisburg senior. "We just want to have fun and then we found out how close we were."
Martin said they realized they were in the top third of the teams by midafternoon on Saturday, and they were in fourth place by Saturday night.
"That's when we decided to go for it," she said.
ALTHOUGH THE TEAM didn't have
immediate plans to celebrate their second place finish. Martin said they were "very pleased."
But, celebrating wasn't on their minds last night - most of the team's members wanted to go home, shower and sleep.
Buddy Ferguson, St. Charles, Ill., freshman, said that although he was tired, the end of the race was the best part.
"The last home stretch was the best because your adrenalin was going knowing that you were winning, and a member of the Rogue II team, said.
Central American conflict continues U.S. assistance prevents solution, ex-official says
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
The people of the United States hold the key to peace in El Salvador if they can keep the Reagan administration from direct military intervention in the country, a self-exiled former Salvadoran official said yesterday.
"The war has turned into a business proposition of death where American military aid will prolong the war, not stop it," said Jorge Villacorte, a former agriculture undersecretary, speaking through a Spanish translator.
Villacorte's talk was sponsored by the Ecumenical Christian Ministries as part of a weeklong series of forums across the state on Central America.
VILLACORTE WENT TO Costa Rica
in March 1980 after he became disgusted with the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the government's refusal to act on it.
"It was morally impossible for me as a Christian to continue with this government. The death of Archbishop Romero was the straw that broke the camel's back. To stay and be a part of the government was impossible," he said.
Villacorte said that the only reason the United States was involved in the Central American conflict was because Reagan Deane's private commitment.
He said the White House's two main goals in El Salvador were to draw the line against communism and to prove that he was a leader of the United States was still a global power
But the money from the United States
is not bringing about an end to the war, Villacorte said.
"The U.S. is spending $1 million a day to support the government," he said. "If it wasn't for the U.S., we would have the solution to the problem."
AS LONG AS the Salvadoran army receives aid from the United States, the military has no intention of achieving the goal. The Salvadoran army officers live off of the war.
Vallortec is now a member of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, which is part of the guerrilla military force.
"The people are taking up arms in self-defense. They seek justice. The war is not one of a few intellectuals and activists, but an organized group of the masses," he said.
mental framework provided no alternatives to the people.
He denied that the guerrilla army of 6,000 was losing the war and said they controlled about 25 percent of the country.
Villacorte said the present governn
HE SAID THAT the battle compared to that of David and Goliath, except that the guerrillas were a smaller force than the soldiers of the Norman government was a bigger Goliath.
And Villaacorte asked why, if the guerrillas were losing, the United States was willing to negotiate with them.
The Reagan administration says that the guerrillas are supported by Cuba, but he said that there was not a shred of evidence to support those claims.
"The greatest superpower in the world cannot come up with any evasive strategy."
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