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Thursday, October 18. 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Foreign students learn regulations of part-time work
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
Getting a part-time job involves a lot of regulations and paper work for foreign students.
Ten foreign students attended a workshop sponsored by the Office of Foreign Student Services yesterday at the Burge Union to help foreign students understand the U.S. labor laws that affect them.
Daphne Johnston, assistant director of the office, explained labor regulations to foreign students who wanted to work while they were
Foreign students with non-immigrant, student or exchange visitor visas can work no more than 20 hours a week while school is in session because the government assumes the country for academic reasons.
Johnston also provided information about documents that foreign students need when they work in the United States.
When foreign students work on campus, they need a permit from the office, and when they work off campus, they need a permit from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, she said.
Johnston said that full-time foreign students were eligible for on-campus working permits.
This semester, undergraduate students needed to complete eight weeks of classes before they were admitted to campus work per month, Johnston said.
This policy was established so students could know how they were
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I can't justify the policy that is not enforced in any way.
Gerald Harris
— Gerald Harris director of Foreign Student Service
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doing academically before they looked for a job.
Beginning this semester, the office does not require students to wait eight weeks to get an on-campus work permit, she said.
Gerald Harris, director of Foreign Student Service, said that the policy was changed because the office had no way to check how the students were doing academically during the eight week waiting period.
"I can't justify the policy that is not enforced in any wav." Harris said.
The office still recommends that students wait until they know how they are doing academically before they apply for on-campus work per semester.
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Johnston said that part-time jobs were good experience for foreign students.
"Students have a chance to practice English in a way they do not do in classrooms." she said.
Dawn Robertson, student employment coordinator in the student housing department, said that 166 foreign students were employed by the University in fiscal 1980, the majority of whom work at residence hall cafeterias.
Making signs
Rachel Hile, Merriam sophomore and member of the Environs Club, cuts posterboard for yard signs. The group worked yesterday on the signs, which urge voters to defeat bond levies for the proposed south Lawrence trafficway. They planned to make 100 signs to be distributed around Lawrence.
KU parking board discusses problems
Kansan staff writer
Don Robertson, chairperson of the KU parking board, began the first meeting of the 1990-91 board by asking members of the challenge facing them.
The parking board is comprised of 10 members representing KU faculty, staff and students.
"Everyone has expectations about parking, but sometimes those expectations are difficult to match with reality," he said.
By Mike Brassfield
Don Kearns, director of parking services, explained that the board's job was to respond to input from students, faculty and staff by developing parking regulations and submitting them to the University Senate Executive Committee for approval.
The board will submit its first report to SenEx on Dec. 6.
The parking board then discussed parking problems at Gertrude Selards Pearson-Corbin Hall and Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The board first discussed complaints from GSP-Corbin residents concerning loss of parking spaces near the residence hall.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the complaints were a result of the housing department's efforts from McCollum Hall to GSF-Corbyn.
Stoner said that although 51 parking spaces had been added to the GRP-Cabin parking area during the construction of the building, all of these spaces had been reserved for
The residents gained 19 spaces because of the additions, but more students now must park in a lot behind GSP-Corbin, on Ohio Street, he said. Security behind the residences and the buildings by the addition of lights in the area.
Dana Goble, a board member representing unclassified employees, proposed the installation of an emergency telephone line behind GSP-Corbin that would connect directly with KU police.
KU to help improve science in KC schools
By Amy Zamierowski
KU researchers want to improve science education for elementary and middle school students in greater Kansas City.
Kansan staff writer
The School of Education received a $400,000, three-year grant this semester to improve science education in 33 school districts in greater Kansas
Providing the technology for students to perform tests on drinking water, enter the results into a computer network database and compare the data with results from other schools is one way the researchers would like to make these improvements.
"This is more like what science is about — when you collect data and look for trends," said William Lashier, professor of education. "There is more interest in a project when data is collected from a number of schools because of the possibility of more variation."
The grant, which takes effect Nov. 1, will be shared by three groups: the University, ShareNet Association and Silicon Prairie Technology Association.
"In our proposal, we focused mainly on elementary and middle school teachers and their students because that is the time when students need to have hands-on activities." Lasher said. "It is also the time when they are interested in science, and we need to reinforce
ShareNet is an organization of 53 school districts in metropolitan Kansas City. Silicon Prairie is comprised of 10 companies that use computer technology
that "
One part of the program will look for ways to improve and use telecommunications networks and link the schools through computers.
"Not all the schools have the computers, software and dedicated phones line to get the network." Lashier said. "We want to explore how technology can be used in the classroom. We also want to get them comfortable using computers."
Clark Bricker, professor emeritus of chemistry, said part of the program to improve science instruction would include two-day courses for teachers on a particular subject, on energy or the origin of the universe.
Bricker will teach a class next semester for fifth through ninth grade teachers that will emphasize experience in the classroom.
Bricker said that some teachers were required to teach several hours of science every week but that they were not comfortable teaching science because they lacked the necessary background.
"Through the course, I hope to give the teachers reassurance by giving them more science background," he said. "I also want to introduce them to hands-on projects they can do with me." He added that Hopefully, they will be able to go back and explain the material with confidence."
Bricker said he thought the grant would pay for some inexpensive equipment that teachers could use to conduct science projects in their classrooms. The grant also may pay for the teachers' tuition for the course.
Speaker says press must guard freedom be vigilant in Latin American countries
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Journalists must guard freedoms recently won in fledding Latin American democracies, where it still can be deadly to report the news, Kansas publisher Edward Seaton said yesterday.
expression in Latin America
Seaton said his past year as head of the organization to monitor press freedoms in the Western Hemisphere showed signs of hope for freedom of
"A free press cannot be taken for granted," Seaton said in his last major address as president of the Inter-American Press Association. "Benign negligent will not do. We must respect." Journalists' lives depend on us."
Seaton, publisher and owner of The Manhattan Mercury and head of Seaton Newspapers fire, was elected President last year in Monterrey, Mexico.
Today, the final day of this year's IAPA meeting in Kansas City, Mo. Seaton will step down from the standard one-year term. A Brazilian journalist, Julio Cesar F. de Mesquita, will move into the presidency:
Seaton said 42 media industry employees were killed by violence in the Western Hemisphere in 1988, and 17 have been killed so far this year. He said 27 of those deaths were in Colombia.
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