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About 20 Soviet delegates discussed global environmental issues with a panel of six U.S. citizens at the White Room in the Kansas University yesterday.
Soviets and Kansans share concerns about environment
Kansan staff writer
Jerry DeNoyelles, professor of environmental studies, said environmental education was the most important area of education in the United States.
For three hours, the delegates spoke through translators about issues such as education, global warming and rain forest depletion.
It was the first meeting of the Environment and Energy Task Force of the Meeting For Peace, a seven-day conference and cultural exchange between Soviets and Kansans.
By Mike Brassfield
DeNovelles said he had little doubt that the primary concerns of the world in the future would be environmentally based.
"We'll look back at the '60s and '70s and '80s and wonder, 'What was all the fuss about?" We'll wonder why we made all those bombs," he said.
Carl Birns of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said governments tended to think in terms of expedition. Birns said that government agencies work toward the sustainable agricultural systems and use of land.
"I have children, and I'm concerned about their standard of living in the future," he said. "My goal is to make financial concerns into concrete policies."
Alexander Katamatkin, president of the Soviet Ecology and 21st Century Association, said he was concerned about soil erosion in the Soviet Union because of improper use of land.
"In the Soviet Union, fertile land has been turned into desert," he said. "Through improper irrigation, we have created a desert area to the entire country of France."
I. A. Maryanchik, an executive in the Moscow Construction Firm, said that because of the housing shortage in Moscow, she was done at the expense of forests.
Families in Moscow want their own apartments, but Soviet environmental groups are fighting new construction, she said.
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A TRIBUTE TO ANGELA DAVIS' PALLID PERFORMANCE
Although the Communist Party holds that the exploited proletariat will eventually overthrow an unprincipled capitalist class and establish a classless society, one couldn't have learned this by listening to Communist Party vice-presidential candidate Angela Davis the other night.
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She remained strangely silent about our government's unwillingness to decisively respond to the increasing air, noise and water pollution now enfeebling the country.
She remained strangely silent about our government's unwillingness to decisively respond to the increasing troubles of the black community.
She remained strangely silent about our government's unwillingness to decisively respond to the suffering of an increasing number of the country's children.
She remained strangely silent about our government's unwillingness to decisively respond to the increasing inability of the public education system to transmit knowledge.
William Dann
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While Professor Davis' performance the other night was enjoyable, it certainly wasn't informative. We should remember that every Communist, from Lenin, Stalin and Mao through Castro, opposes the free flow of information. It is unrealistic to expect Professor Davis, who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the same year these republics invaded Afghanistan, to differ with her fellows on this basic issue.
She remained strangely silent about our government's unwillingness to decisively respond to the increasing crime and violence now stifling society.
Orientation class to help freshmen
Concern about retention spurs development of pilot course
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
KU will offer a freshman orientation course next semester to help incoming students adjust to the experience of University life.
Kathryn Kretschmer, director of the new student orientation program, said the pilot course would be offered through the department of counseling psychology in cooperation with the department of student life.
The goal of the course is to help freshmen become sophomores and eventually graduate, she said.
Kretschmer said the issue of freshman retention had been a University concern for some time.
"About, 20 percent of freshmen don't return to KU," she said. "But that compares favorably with other universities."
The freshman retention rate has not declined at KU in the past several years; it has improved slightly, she said.
Kretschmer said that she expected that 15 to 20 people would enter the pilot program in the spring but that enrollment would double in the fall.
She said she did not know whether
the course would be mandatory in the future.
"If we find it to be successful, it could be adopted on a mandatory basis," she said.
The course will address student adaptation to the University environment, Kretschmer said. It will introduce the student to the University community, explore KU's commitment to cultural diversity and provide information on University procedures.
"If they have problems at the University, it will show them where to go to solve them," she said.
The course also will address decision-making and communication skills, she said.
Kretschmer said the course, which will count for two credit hours, would include semi-weekly lectures and a weekly discussion.
She said the pilot course would be geared toward incoming freshmen and any transfer students who had attended college for only one semester.
Student Senate has been working with the University to develop the pilot freshman orientation course.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said Senate representatives discussed the course with University instructors to provide student input
He said the course would be a semester-long orientation class addressing student issues at KU. Students are encouraged to assist, add/drop and student health
Kretschmer said the concept for the course was modeled after a similar program at the University of South Carolina
She said she thought KU's course would be called University Seminar
would be university bachelor. An example of a successful freshman orientation program is the freshman tutorial course offered by the University honors program, Kretschmar said.
Sandra Wick, assistant director of the college honors program, said freshman honors students were offered a variety of courses offered by the honors department.
She said the purpose of the course was to help freshmen adjust to the level of academic discourse at KU and teach students with faculty mentors.
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