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Wednesday, September 12, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Japanese, U.S. telecommunicators meet
By Tatsuva Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
Japanese and U.S. executives in telecommunications got a glimpse of the industry in both countries daily during a conference at KU.
Joseph J. Lies/Special to the Kaosan
The KU School of Business was host to the second annual U.S.-Japan Telecommunications Conference yesterday at the Adams Alumni Center. The conference will continue today.
The conference is co-sponsored by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan's equivalent to the American Telephone & Telecogh.
Carol Nalbandian (center), introduces Elichi Shimizu (left), to Edward S. Feldman of Sprint Inc.
Thirty Japanese executives from telecommunication companies and manufacturers such as NTT, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electrical Equipment Corp. attended the conference. U.S. participants included Randy Bell, US Sprint and the United States Telephone Association.
While introducing the conference, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said mutual understanding between the U.S. and the Japanese telecommunication industries would foster healthy competition.
, Eiichi Shimizu, head of the Japanese delegation, said because technological advances progressed rapidly in the industry, executives were facing difficult problems to improve their services. He said the conference would be helpful in solving these problems.
Shimizu graduated from KU with
a master's degree in business administration in 1968. He is executive vice president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone International Corp., NTT's subsidiary company. Shimizu is also vice president of The University of Kansas Alumni Association in Japan.
Gordon Fitch, professor of business, said the conference was a good opportunity to meet managers and communication companies in Japan.
People who attend the conference can learn more about how the telecommunication industry works and to the United States, Fitch said.
Shimizu said he wanted additional telecommunication companies to participate in future conferences. The conference is the only one of its kind in S. E. and Japanese telecommunication companies to exchange opinions.
One reason NTT chose KU to act as host for the conference was because the University has had a telecommunication management program for more than 30 years, Shimizu said.
Joseph Reitz, associate dean of business, said KU was one of few U.S. universities that had a telecommunication management program. Only Columbia University, Duke University and the University of Southern California have such a program.
After today's conference, Japanese and U.S. executives will play golf at the Alvamar Golf and Country Club, 1800 Crossgate Drive.
Starlene Tilford, assistant director of the management development program in the School of Applied Science at the conference was not normal in
the United States but was common in Japan.
"That's the way they really get acquainted and talk about business," she said.
general affairs department of NTT International, said they could relax more on a golf course than in a formal conference. They can talk about various topics, including business.
Miyoshi Sumiya, manager in the
Commission rejects KU access crossing
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2 last night not to build an intersection that would be the main access point to KU from the proposed eastern parkway until the parkway is completed.
The intersection, which would be situated at 15th Street and the parkway, also would be the main access
point to the proposed new high school.
"This sends a powerful message to both KU students and the school board that we don't consider that intersection as important as the other intersections," said David Penny, city commissioner.
The parkway and the south Lawrence trafficway will be on in the Nov. 6 election ballot. The trafficway
would loop around the city, linking Kansas Highway 10 with Interstate 70. The parkway would lead traffic from K-10 directly to downtown
An interlocal agreement between the city and county provides that the two roadways will be built on the same side. If a condition if both are approved by voters.
Penny complained that the parkway put emphasis on the downtown
area.
"The emphasis is not on joining the two highways, but on funneling traffic into the downtown area so that they fund some commissioners' businesses."
Commissioner Mike Rundle disagreed.
"This will help ensure the construction of the parkway because it puts an onus on people to get out
Commissioner Bob Walters did not agree that the construction of the two roads should be linked.
there and work for funds," he said.
Commissioner Bob Schumm argued that construction of the two roads should be combined to ensure even growth of the city.
"I think we're cutting our nose off to spite our face by agreeing to this," he said.
Meeting will feature education
By Chris Oster
Kansan staff writer
The convention begins tomorrow and ends Sunday.
Colleen Lawer, convention chairperson, said the business part of the convention would include seminars in which delegates would exchange information about such topics as fund raising and membership drives.
The University of Kansas Student Alumni Association will welcome 823 delegates from 124 universities this spring and host the Kansas Alumni Association National Convention.
"We're very proud to bring nearly 850 delegates to KU." Green said. "We're counting on the University to provide the atmosphere."
Green said that delegates from the convention would stay at hotels in Lawrence and that convention headquarters would be held in Holdmein, 200 McDonald Drive.
Activities planned for the delegates include a campus tour, workshops, social activities and guest speakers.
The weekend's main speaker will be astronaut Steven A. Hawley, a 173 graduate of KU. He will give a talk on space exploration about the Hubble space telescope.
Other speakers include comedian David Naster and federal Judge Deanell Tacha.
Social activities include a jazz concert and a picnic on the hill. Green said. Convention activities are to be delegates only.
Financing for the convention is provided by the delegates, the Stuart Kinnan Association, Pizza Hut and seven sponsors in Lawrence, Green said.
Delegates provide their own transportation to the convention and pay for their rooms, Green said. They also pay $97 for convention activities
Lawler said KU won the opportunity to be host to this year's convention at last year's convention in Greenville, N.C.
Commission opposes anti-obscenity laws, recommends endowment for arts
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan commission's plea for Congress to halt anti-obscency restrictions on the National Endowment for the Arts is drawing cheers from liberal activists who host from conservative lawmakers.
NEA grants.
The 12-member study panel said yesterday that it unanimously opposed any new legislative curbs on the content of works financed by
"Content restrictions may raise serious constitutional issues, would be inherently ambiguous and would almost certainly involve the endowment and the Department of Justice in reproductive law waits." the panel said.
The commission, established by Congress last fall to examine NEA operations amid a furor over federal support for controversial art, also
suggested that NEA Carpinterperson John E. Frohmayer scrap a requirement that all grant recipients sign an anti-obscence pledge
Both proposals were applauded by the liberal People for the American Way Action Fund, which called them "unacceptable," and proposed proposals of the NEA's attackers."
"The commission has sent the important message that artists' acceptance of government funding
must not be conditioned upon the forfeiture of constitutionally protected rights," said Arthur J. Kropp, fund president.
The commission's report drew a mixed response from Rep. E. Thomas Coleman, R-Mo., a leader in House negotiations concerning a compromise bill that would extend the arts endowment's life beyond Sept. 30, when its statutory authority expires.
Coleman welcomed the report as a possible framework for a compromise, but he made clear that "it's not good for most members to accept."
He predicted that the House will ignore the commission's appeal and ultimately approve some form of anti-obscenity curbs on NEA grants.
Coleman said he will also press for a requirement that artists return
grant money to the NEA if a court determines that their federally subsidized project is obscene.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calf, a vocal conservative critic of the NEA, dismissed the commission's report. He said the panel was created to provide "political cover" for NEA supporters who are fighting legislative restrictions on the kinds of art eligible for federal grants.
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