University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 25, 1989
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Reagans continue 9-day visit in Japan
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Ronald Reagan threw the first pitch in a Japanese championship baseball game yesterday, nearly hit the batter. Later, his wife, Nancy, inaugurated the Japanese chapter of her anti-drug program.
The former president met with two former prime ministers and, at a reception for U.S. citizens working in Japan, praised the "ever-growing
closeness" between the two nations
A capacity crowd of 58,000 at the Tokyo Dome cheered as Reagan tossed the first pitch in the third game of the Japan Series, the Japanese version of the World Series, from about halfway between the mound and home plate.
The one-time sportscaster fired a ball that nearly hit Dajiro Ohishi of the Kintetsu Buffaloes on the posterior.
Announcements during the game
asked fans for donations for victims of last week's San Francisco earthquake to promote U.S.-Japanese relations.
Nancy Reagan spoke to a group of experts on preventing drug abuse about the importance of action on the narcotics problem. Drug laws are in comparatively little abuse, except of barbiturates.
"People in Japan still think that drugs are not a serious problem."
said Fumiyo Mizuzi, secretary-general of Just Saw No Japan.
He said clubs would be formed in schools to raise awareness about drugs.
Reagan, 78, is on a nine-day visit at the invitation of the government and Japan's largest media conglomerate, Fulsankei Communications Group.
Except for meetings with Japanese officials Monday and yesterday, Reagan is spending his time in appearances planned by Fujikane.
Calvin Jackson, freshman, strains during a tutorial session as M.J. McLendon, English teaching assistant, waits for an answer.
Center strives to save students from red pen
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
Deborah Faurot, director of microbiology lab,
knew something had to be done when her students
couldn't write lab reports correctly.
Fauret received help from the writing center, a service established in 1986 by Stephen Goldman,
"I kept getting feedback that the students were having trouble writing about the experiments and organizing thoughts," she said.
"The original intention was to create a writing center as a consultation service," Goldman said. "The center was in response to the 'writing across the curriculum' idea passed down from the National Council of Teachers of English."
He said that Writing Across the Curriculum was an attempt to encourage instructors to give fewer time to writing.
"Instructors should use writing as a learning tool." he said.
This program led to the consultation service that the center provided to instructors.
"The instructors seek us out if they want help in their classes," Goldman said.
Hector Clark, associate professor of mechanical engineering, said he enlisted the help of the writing center several years ago when students of a local university and methods class turned in poorly written essays.
"There was a lot of poor sentence structure and poorly organized ideas," he said. "I was ripping their papers apart. I was giving two out of 10 or three out of 10."
He said that after he asked students to go to the writing center for help he noticed a significant improvement in assignments.
The work with the writing center was extremely fruitful." he said.
James Woelfel, director of the department of Western civilization, said he worked with the writing center to develop effective assignments.
"We've worked closely with the writing center," he said. "Writing is very important in Western civ. It helps you deal with important ideas. It helps you express, articulate and think about those ideas."
Students may be helped in the tutoring room by peer tutors, while minority students are tutored by graduate teaching assistants.
Non-minority students must be enrolled in a class in which the instructor has direct contact with the writing center, Goldman said.
"A teacher who is working with us could send students to the center to be tutored," Goldman said.
Minority students are tutored by graduate teaching assistants who teach English 101
M. J. McLendon, graduate teaching assistant and tutor, said she thought she helped the student by explaining how to solve problems.
"I teach 101, so I know what the assignments are trying to accomplish." she said
McLendon said she thought tutoring provided students with the extra help and support they might not find in the classroom.
"The training is one-on-one," she said. "A student is able to ask a question without peer embarrassment."
The writing center also provides free training to Kansas elementary high school teachers.
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