Business of studying Japanese
By Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
Training in Japanese and business could be the new ticket to success in the corporate world, and KU students are making strides to compete in the future.
The number of KU students enrolled in Japanese courses has more than doubled in the past five years. This is partly because more foreign students have chosen to study Japan, where an edge in the business world laid Cameron Hurst, director of the center for East Asian studies.
"I have a considerable number of students who have been studying Japanese culture and are interested in or are majoring in business," he said. "This may well be an asset when they go to work for a company."
"Japan is going to continue to be the premier Asian country of the world."
Andrew Tsubaki, chairman of the East Asian languages and cultures department, said additional sections of Japanese classes were added this semester. He said he thought this increase was partly because of business students.
"Obviously a lot of people are realizing there is enormous business opportunity," Tsubaki said. "It puts you a step ahead."
Joni Little, Coffeyville junior,
decided to major in business with a
concentration in Japanese when she
was in high school.
Little, who is in her third semester of Japanese, said she didn't mind the extra hours her Japanese classes took.
"I've fallen in love with the language, the country and the culture. It's become a passion for me," she said.
"The Japanese are consistently climbing in business, and it makes sense to put two and two together," she said.
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Jill Kleinberg, assistant professor of business, said the department was trying to develop a course in Japanese organizational behavior for next year, which would cover background about the culture and the types of organizational practices. Kleinberg, who lived in Japan for four years, teaches a cross-cultural management class in which she includes a large section about Japan.
"We believe we will have a growing student demand for it." she said.
Kleinberg said she thought that knowing both the Japanese language and culture would benefit students in all areas of business.
Kleinberg said Cornell University and the University of Virginia already had established special Japanese business programs. A similar program for the University of Kansas is already in the planning stages, she said. The possibility of having a Japanese language course especially for students going into business has also been considered.
"We are working on that with people in East Asian language studies and the center for international programs," Kleinberg said. "It's not enough to have just a conventional business degree in today's global economy."
"When you look across the nation at the surge of the Japanese language, many of these schools are saying people will be dealing with business involving Japan," she said. "I think almost all business students are, at some time in their futures, going to have contact with Japan."
Low turnout continues for College Assembly
By Stacy Smith Kansan staff writer
Although there are more than 600 faculty and student members of College Assembly, no more than 30 to 100 attended the monthly meetings during the Spring 1989 semester. At many meetings, the 10 percent necessary to reach quorum was not present.
Pam Houston, assistant to the dean of liberal arts and sciences, said attendance was not expected to increase significantly when the assembly met for the first time Tuesday.
"I guess I'm not looking for much of a change," she said. "Right now, we don't have many controversial changes to discuss. I think that quite a bit of the work that's done is fairly routine."
The College Assembly is the representative governing body of faculty and students for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"We had some pretty good student participation last year," Houston said, "I think they made a difference in some issues."
Houston said that all instructors and professors in the college were members of the assembly. The number of students elected is dependent upon the number of faculty each year, she said. Students compose 25 percent of the assembly.
Student representatives for this year were chosen last spring. Houston said elections had not been held in several years because not enough students applied to fill the available positions. She said that several years
ago, as few as 30 students had applied for the more than 100 vacancies.
"Part of it may be that it gets lost in student elections, because they're at the same time," she said.
The Assembly meetings are held at 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Houston said she was not sure why so few professors and students attended the meetings.
"We're very good at providing the information that's going to be discussed a week before the meeting, so if there's anything that faculty members are interested in or students are interested in, they will know," she said.
"I don't think I've been to one in five years," he said. "I can't notise if attendance is really that important. I trust my colleagues."
Born said he wasn't sure how attendance could be improved.
"You decide at some point that you can't do everything," he said. "If you have 30 or 40 faculty there, you're having a pretty good representation."
Michael Johnson, chairman of the English department, said he attended the meetings regularly last year and planned to do so this year. He faculty in the English department, however, only attended occasionally.
"My feeling is that if you hold a meeting and say these are the issues and no one attends, then they're making their statement."
Parking services to move
By a Kansan reporter
The Parking Department this week is moving its offices from Hoch Auditorium to the new parkage north of Allen Field House.
The department's offices should open at the new location the week of Oct. 9, said Donna Hultine, assistant parking director.
She said that during the moving process, a cashier would accept fine payments at the old offices in Hoch. When the office opens at the field house, all fines must be paid there.
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 27, 1989
At the new office, the parking department will have longer office hours. Hultine said there would be a cashier on duty for fine payments from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Office hours now are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
She said parking officials were considering hiring another student to work later so that fine pavement could be made in the evening.
Dave Schaecher, assistant director of facilities planning, estimated that the garage would be open by Oct. 15.
Hultine said the department would have a new phone number at the garage. 864-PARK.
He said facilities operations housekeeping would move into the old parking department offices from its space in Snow Hall.
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