Foreign students sing, watch films to learn English
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By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
Yukiko Uchilke attends classes at the University of Kansas, but she doesn't consider herself a KU student.
"I don't think I'm even a freshman yet," she said. "I have to pass English first."
Uchike, Tokyo freshman, is one of about 400 foreign students enrolled in remedial English courses that will, theoretically, enable them to pass the English proficiency Bedseloppi Sopelae, director of the Applied English Center.
University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 20, 1989
Soppelaa said the center offered non-native English speakers classes in structure, writing, reading and speaking and understanding.
Students must pass a proficiency exam before they can enroll in other KU courses, she said.
"All non-native English speakers are screened to see what their level of proficiency is," she said. "There may be a number of students who are relatively unable to communicate in English."
Center instructors use a variety of teaching aids to help their students learn English.
Soppelsa said she thought students learned better if they participated in activities such as singing songs and watching movies
"They may sing songs to learn stresses," she said. "Students retain material very well if they can cement it in their minds."
Jenell Williams, graduate teaching assistant, teaches a speaking and understanding course.
Carlos Calderon of Bolivia talks about stamps.
Jeniel Williams, graduate teacher assistant, teaches a speaking and understanding course. "Movies are a good
"I like to use movies," she said. "Movies are a good way to pick up proper intonation."
Williams said the class just finished watching "Ghost-buster."
"Pretty soon we're going to watch 'On Golden Pond,'" she said. "I think by this time, the students will be able to pick up on all the themes in it."
Alexandra Mesaquia, Oporto, Portugal, graduate student,
said that English was not difficult for her to learn.
"When you live in a country where all they speak is English, you have to learn to speak English to communi-
Mesquita has attended KU for two semesters. She studied English three years before coming to KU.
Kenji Futamata, Kyoto, Japan, graduate student, taught English to junior high students for eight years before he arrived in the United States on Aug. 16.
"I was teaching English, but here, the language is different." he said.
Students are not the only people who experience difficulty in the class. Williams said instructors sometimes had problems teaching classes because every foreign language gave a different accent to English.
Williams said, "If there was only one language, it would be so much easier to structure."
Subleasing gives graduates new lease on life
By Lisa Moss
Kansan staff writer
Some students graduating in December have to do more than find a job. They also have to find someone to sublease their apartments.
December graduates who have signed 12-month leases and are leaving Lawrence when they graduate someone to take over their leases.
This can be costly.
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jobs.
Toni Everhart, leasing agent with Kaw Valley Management Inc., 901 Kentucky St. , said that tenants who wanted to turn a lease over to a new
Everhart said that tenants should look for someone to sublease as early as possible.
"The later it gets the harder it gets," she said. "Usually it is not a problem because there are enough people who want to switch apart-hips."
Lynne Logan, staff member at Meadowbrook Apartments, 15th
street and Crestline Drive, said that Meadowbrook charged a $100 sublease fee and that residents had to fill out a form.
Liz Matz and Sheryl Martasin are roommates at Tanglewood Apartments, 951 Arkansas St., and are graduating in December.
Matz said that they had advertised their apartment in the University Daily Kansan and had received many calls about subleasing.
They had to pay their landlord a $100 sublease fee, she said.
Matz said that she wanted the person who took over the lease to pay full rent but that she would take less if necessary.
Martinsan said she was a little worried about finding someone to sublease the apartment. People had called regarding the advertisement, she said, but no one said that they would take over the lease.
"It is already the middle of October, and we want to take care of this as soon as possible and not wait until the last minute," she said.
Brigette Ellis, a December graduate, has a 12-month lease. She said she had put an advertisement in the she
She was worried because she had not found anyone yet.
Ellis said that she knew she would be graduating in December when she signed the 12-month lease but that she did not think at the time it would be a problem finding someone to take over the rent.
Kansan and fliers on campus to try to find someone to take, save your keys.
If Ellis does not find someone to sublease her apartment, she might have to pay the rent.
Audrey Berkowitz, another December graduate, said that she was not worried about subleasing her apartment. She said that her landlord would help her find a person to sublease, but she also had put an advertisement in the Kansas.
"They (landlords) do help you to find people, but it is better to do it yourself because they do not put ads in the paper," she said. "I think it will go faster."
Jean Morrow, assistant director of resident life, said that students living in residence halls did not have to pay a fee to cancel their contracts if they graduated in December.
Official's hint begins flurry for successor
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Rep. Bob Whittaker's apparent decision not to seek reelection in 1990 caught Kansas politicians by surprise yesterday and promised to set off a wild scramble to elect a successor next year.
The 5th District Republican, expected to make it official tomorrow in Ottawa that he won't try for a seventh two-year term, had given no hint to GOP officials that he was planning to retire until he began making telephone calls back to the state the middle of this week.
"I was certainly floored when I heard it," said State GOP Chairwoman Rochelle Chronister of Neodhea, which is in whitishwater" 8th grade. "And we could talk him into running for reapportionment."
"This really is a shock," said former State Sen. Ed Roitz of Pittsburg, who considered running for Whittaker's seat in 1986 when Whittaker explored the possibility of running for Republican nomination for governor.
"I was greatly surprised," said McPherson banker Dick Nichols, who is 5th District GOF chairman and made those trying to succeed Whitaker.
"I even thought he'd be around to run against Jim Slattery if they got thrown into the same district in 1992." Martin said.
Kansas is expected to lose one of its five seats in the House, and there has been speculation that under a four-seat repositionment of the state Democrat Slattery's 2nd District in the House, the 5th District could be divided so the two congressmen would be thrown into the same district.
Whitaker's expected retirement is expected to set off races in both parties equal to that of 1978, when Republican Joe Skubitz retired in the 5th District.
Chronister listed five names of Republicans she said would make good candidates — Nichols, Roitz, kubike艾伯·贝洛 former Boeing talkingsman of Knox Pittsburg businessman George Nettles
That year, 11 candidates sought the two major parties' nominations.
However, Chronister, a state representative, did not include herself. She has been state GOP chairman since Sept. 9.
Two prominent southeast Kansas Democrats, State Sens. Michael Johnston of Parsons and Phil Martin of Pittsburg, were equally surprised.
"I've taken on a new job and that's exactly what I plan to fulfill," she said.
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