VOL.101.NO.37
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN.
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ages of Life" Dancers present "An evening of Native American Culture" at Hoch Auditorium as part of the Meeting for Peace.
Soviets attend Indian cultural show
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
The American Indian way of life was told last night through traditional storytelling. In Russian.
More than 100 delegates, their hosts and interested onlookers gathered in Hoch Auditorium for "An Evening of Native American Cultures" at Haskell Institute Junior College and the Meeting for Peace conference.
The Meeting for Peace is a weeklong conference in Lawrence that began Friday as a cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
For an hour and a half, the audi-
ence viewed theatrical performances
by Haskell's student-run Thunderbird Theatre Company and heard poetry from Luci Tapahanso, KU English professor.
Tapahano, a Navajo from Shiprock, N.M., is a noted author and has published three books of poetry.
At the end of the evening, most of the audience joined the dancers on stage for a traditional closing dance, the "round dance."
Members of the dance group told the audience about how the Great
Valerie Drake, special events coordinator for the Meeting for Peace conference, said she thought the delegates would enjoy the dramatic performances, in which the dancers explained American Indian culture through stories that had been passed down through generations.
Spirit created the animal people.
The group also told a story about a "grandmother spider" who carried a pot on her head and put the sun in the pot and brought the sun back to the animal people. The story explains why spider webs look like sun rays.
The narrator of the stories was accompanied by a Russian interpreter. The stories were called the "Songs of Life," which were created by Andrey Dyakovsky and Konstantin based on tribal dances, pamiime and sign language.
Drake said she was concerned about the translation of the stories. She said the narrator had to work with the interpreter to define some of the terms.
American stories involve animals," Drake said. "The Russians have nothing within their cultures that even relate, for example, to a coy-
"Many of the traditional Native
Vitaly M. Dodonov, a delegate member from Moscow who cannot speak or understand English, said he relapsed completely on the interpreter.
Dodovon said through an interpreter that he liked the theatrical performances and that he understood the stories. But he liked the dancing
Igor Stempen, delegate from Grodmo, said he enjoyed the performances and loved the costumes.
"That was something I've never seen or experienced before." Stempen said. "That was fantastic."
3 U.S. economists share Nobel Prize
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Three Americans who gave investors, stockholders and corporate directors a better understanding of the intricate financial markets won the Nobel Prize in Economic Science yesterday.
The three Americans, Harry F. Markowitz of the City University of New York, Merton Miller of the University of Chicago and William Sharpe of Stanford University, are all worth $700,000, which is worth about $700,000.
Since the prize in economics first was awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1968, 160 winners have been American cans.
"There has been a very powerful and rich development of finance economy as a scientific subject, and that was a main reason for giving them the prize." The committee member Basil Nashel.
The academy said financial markets served a key purpose in a modern market economy by allowing production areas to various production areas.
Therefore, he said, Markowitz,
Sharpe and Miller made an essential contribution that concerned us all
Miller, 67, said he thought it was a crank call when committee chairpersons Assar Lindbeck came early yesterday with the new
"It is important that these markets function efficiently, then they can really only do we," Nasheed said of the. "Nasheed said."
I picked up the phone, and didn't hear anything. . . Suddenly, I hear a voice with an angry heart my heart stoped a bit, he said.
Lindbeck said Miller and Sharpe were stunned by the news but recovered enough to ask about the exchange rate for krona.
which is the Swedish currency unit.
The academy delayed announcing the prize for about 45 minutes while trying to reach Markowitz in Japan, where he began teaching a course today at Tokyo University. But reporters found him first.
"I'd thought it was never going to happen," the 63-year old Markowitz said.
Markowitz developed a theory in the 1950s explaining how house-holds and companies choose shares and reduce the risks involved, the so-called theory of portfolio choice.
Markowitz published his pioneer works in 1952 and 1959. Sharpe and Miller drew on his theories.
Sharp, 56, developed the Capital Asset Pricing Model in the 1960s. It is considered the backbone of capital theory (or financial markets).
Miller's theory is based on the assumption that stockholders have access to the same capital market as firms. As a result, corporate managers saw that the best way to safeguard the interests of stockholders was to maximize the net wealth.
"My work follows Harry Markwitz," said Sharpe, reached in Arizona. "He was my mentor. . . I owe him a huge debt."
"He underscored the important relationship between a company and that same capital market with the help of winners-winners." Nisqi said.
Miller showed what factors determine a company's choices in accruing debt and distributing assets.
Miller initially collaborated with 1985 economics prize-winner Franco Modigliani of the United States*
"Our work was known as the Modigliani-Miller propositions of corporate finance," Miller said.
Changes at Defense likely will take time
Congress is the only hope, educators can
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
KU administrators and representatives of national educational associations have discovered that changing language can be a long and cumbersome process.
University officials have been working with the associations since spring to change the U.S. Department of Defense policy excluding homosexuals. But the policy remains.
Representatives of the American Council on Education and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges agree that the process of changing the policy will be challenging and time-consuming. They also are wondering if the change is possible.
"If a large number of major universities work together through the national associations, I think that in the long run or perhaps in the short run, that at some point there will develop enough impact that we may be successful in persuading Congress to enact changes in the policy," he
Del Shankel, KU interim executive vice chancellor, said the University would continue to work with the university's athletic teams in the Department of Defense policy.
KU administrators have said the University could pursue several avenues, including working with the students' institutions, to try to change the policy.
Earlier this year, the associations, which represent U.S. colleges and universities, requested a meeting with Secretary of Defense Dick Che
"A general wrote a response letter that generally slammed the door pretty good." Atwell said. "We interpreted that to mean that the Department of Defense was not going to change its policy."
Cheney refuses meeting
Cheney refused to meet with the associations to discuss changing the policy, said Robert Atwell, president of ACE.
He said the issue no longer was alive within the executive branch of the government. He thinks that trying to convince Congress to pressure the Defense Department to change the way it conducts an active way to get the policy changed.
Robert Clodius, president of NASULGC, said that he had written a personal letter to Cheney but that he
Policymakers debate limits on enrollment
See DEFENSE, p. 2
Crowded classrooms cited
By Carol Krekeler Kanean staff writer
Committee members said that KU and K-State did not have adequate numbers of instructors and classmates to accommodate the students enrolled.
TOPEKA — the interim Ways and Means/Appropriations Committee met yesterday to consider a proposal that would limit enrollment at KU.
The committee will make its final proposals for the session at the end of November.
The committee was meeting to discuss proposals for the 1991 legislative session that pertain to Regents universities.
State Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, said he thought enrollment should be limited.
"It does cause a lot of problems when you have these wild fluctuations on campus," Kerr said. "It just hurts the students."
Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Regents, said the concept of an enrollment limit conflicted with the Regents policy of open admissions. Open admissions allows all Kansas students to attend a Regents university.
Kopik said he thought qualified admissions, instead of a limit, was a better option. Qualified admissions would require students to meet certain academic standards in order to be admitted to a university.
"Qualified admissions changes the time students spend at a university because they are more disciplined students," he said.
State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, co-chairperson of the committee, said committee members should not make a quick decision about enrollment limits at the two universities.
"I don't think we ought to say today, 'Yeah, that is what we want to do.'" she said. "It is thought-provoking, though."
Rest and relaxation Craig R. Hewins/Special to the KANSAN
Shu Yih Wong, right, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, junior, and William Ling, Singapore graduate student, relax beside Potter Lake. The two enjoyed the warm weather yesterday.
Stroke gives man Scandinavian accent
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A Baltimore man suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent after suffering a stroke, displaying a rare disorder that involves the brain. He produces language, a recent study reported.
The man, who had no experience with foreign languages, sounded Nordic and unfamiliar with English, said Dean Tippett, a doctor familiar with the case.
"Everyone who heard him said he sounded Scandinavian and Nordic," said Tippett, a neurophysiology fellow at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
The 32-year-old man enjoyed his new accent at
The man suffered from foreign accent syndrome, a rare condition in which a brain malfunction produces speech alterations that sound like a foreign accent. Other reported cases in Americans have involved German, Spanish, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Italian accents.
Scientists say studying the syndrome may reveal secrets about how particular parts of the
first, saying he hoped it would help attract women. Tinpee said.
But by the time his accent had largely faded, six weeks after the stroke, he said that he was happy to be speaking like an American again.
The syndrome is triggered by bleeding in the brain, head injuries or strokes.
the brain contribute to spoken language.
Tippet presented the case yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association.
Arnold Aronson, a Mayo Clinic speech pathologist who has evaluated about 20 people with the syndrome, said he knew of only about a dozen additional cases in the scientific literature.
A person's native tongue has no bearing on which accent appears, he said.
The acquired accent may become "rather permanent," depending on where the brain is injured, said Elliott D. Ross, director of the clinical psychology research center at the neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, N.D.