University Daily Kansan, October 14, 1981
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Exchange program offers study in China
Bv MARK ZIEMAN
Staff Reporter
Until this semester, KU Chinese language students had no choice about where they went to class. Like hundreds of other students, they would get up every weekday morning, grab their books and trudge over to Wescoe Hall.
This semester, however, that procedure has varied somewhat for six of the students. Instead of going to Wescoe, these students went a little further and started their university year at Nan Kai and Nan Jing universities in the People's Republic of China.
They are in China as part of an exchange program arranged by a KU delegation that visited Henan Province in April 1980, according to Frances and詹祟琳 for research and graduate studies and a member of the delegation.
"We visited four universities officially, and we concluded while we were there an exchange agreement with the ICTA and Kai Nan Jing," she said last week.
DELEGAMENT members included former Acting Chancellor Del Shankel
and Ralph Christofferson, former vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The University of Kansas concluded an exchange program with a third university, Zhengzhong, after the trip, Horowitz said.
The group's visit was part of the sistership program between Henan Province and Kansas begun during Gov. John Carlin's trip to China in 1979.
Henan Province is similar to Kansas because it is predominately an agricultural province.
"The University of Kansas has had a historic tradition of international education," Horowitz said. "When China p. it, became an opportunity to pursue."
SO FAR, Horowitz said, only one student, Di Zhao, from Nan Kai, was studying at KU as part of the exchange program.
However, she said, the University also arranged for Tsao Chi-chien, a professor of English at Nai Kai, to come to KU on a separate exchange program with Grace Wan, associate professor of East Asian Studies.
Sitting in her office in Wescoe, Taoo Chi-chen explained how she was chosen to be the president.
"When Dr. Shankel, Dr. Christof ferson and Dr. Horwitz visit China last year, I was their interpreter," she said.
"I was very fortunate to meet these very nice people."
Chi-chen teaches third-year Chinese at KU and also studies English, she said.
IN CHINA, she taught English in the Nan Kai foreign language department from 1956 until 1969, when the university was closed as a result of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, she said.
In 1972, she became a librarian and English translator at the Kwangshi iron and Steel plant. In 1978, after the death of Mao T-suang and the arrest of Chu Yunqing, she received a college letter that included Mao's widow, Chicken went back to Nan KaI to teach.
"During the Cultural Revolution, I was in a very remote province," she said. Until 1972 she worked with her brother, a heart surgeon, in a regional clinic.
"This is the first time I've been out of China," Chi-chen said. "I can adapt myself to the life here very easily." He added, "I was very sad. She SAID she, however, that she had had
other problems, such as her neighbors playing their stereo late one night.
Except for that night, everything has been fine,she said.
"Even strangers here are always ready to help me," she said.
Eight Chinese students are already at KU as part of other programs.
Although Zhao and Chi-chen are the only Chinese participants in the exchange program, Horowitz said that she expected another student from Nan Kai this semester and students from Nan Jing to be coming this year.
One student, Jia Hua Wang came to KU this semester to study in his particular field, geology, and not to study for a degree, said his interpreter and roommate, Larry Lin, Taiwan graduate student.
WANT SAID that he worked for the KU geological survey, and wanted to learn something that would benefit his government in the future.
Wang, however, does not like KU as much as Chi-chen does.
His government recommended him to KU and paid his tuition, he said.
"He says he likes it 'so-so,'" Lin said, with a laugh. "Maybe he will it better later, but now it's 'so far, so good.'"
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KGB trying to halt influence of outside cultures on youth
By United Press International
Soviet youth are being threatened by pop music, the Hare Krishna movement and a thirst for western lifestyle, but the KGB is trying to do something about the agency's high-profile official in an interview released yesterday.
"The organs of the KGB are giving top priority to preventive action," said Semyon Tsvigin, first deputy director of the Soviet agency.
"Religio-mystical groups" such as the Hare Krishna sect have recently appeared on the Soviet scene, Tsyijum said.
He said the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service, was "taking care of all our relations" with special services and ideological centers directed against our youth."
The article also said the KGB was operating against Western intelligence agencies that had been trying to recruit "possible leaders" of the Kremlin and Soviet regime," in an apparent movement to the dissident movement.
The article in the September issue of *Kommunist magazine* was a demonstration of open presentation of what the KGB sees as its role in Soviet society.
He pointed to other "negative" phenomena, such as "groups of youth based on the hobby of pop music and the Western style of life, accompanied by hooliganistic and other anti-social excesses."
"As a result of measures taken by the KGB . . . anti-social elements, despite the significant material and moral support of the West, did not permit international solidarity on the platform of anti-Sovietism," Tswigian said.
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