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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 1. 1979
Operation Friendship bridges cultural gaps
By STEVEN KOPPES
Staff Reporter
A foreign student's worst enemy during his first few weeks and months in America is the prospect of living in an apartment, with no one to talk to. The students often has nothing to do but think of someone else.
Operation Friendship offers help for these K-12 Students. Its goal is to help the students improve their English and establish new friendships and to provide a place to practice speaking English in a safe environment.
Operation Friendship has about 40 KU student members. They can be from any of about 40 foreign countries represented at the conference and they are new members from about 15 countries.
*Cultures are made up of people, not customs, and bridges can only be built
through relationships between people," says the program' pamphlet about its philosophy.
"We have students from every community except Australia and Antarctica," Jon Feigher, a member of the programs at UNH, said. "Anybody can walk right in and feel welcome.
"MANY OF the Americans who are here have lived overseas for an extended amount of time, which enables them to understand the problems of living in a new country."
Ben Browne, coordinator of Operation Friendship, said foreign students could practice their English at meetings without worrying about mistakes.
"There is an equally strong emphasis on the American students, since many come to KU with a bad image of foreign students," Broome said.
SERGIO ANDRAGE, Durango, Mexico,
freshman, said he joined Operation
Friendship, "to know about the United
and what's going on around the world."
Andrade's roommate returned to his home country after three weeks at the University this semester. Andrade said that he was fortunate to be a part of Operation Friendship was able to help.
"It opens your mind. It helps you to talk to others without being afraid." he said.
NELSON OTALVARO, Medellin,
Colombia, graduate student, said that
Operation Friendship's achievements after
recovery has clearly justified its Student
Senate allocation.
"It has proven to be perhaps the only place where people of various nationalities can share their countries, their jays, their expectations of life," Oatvalo said.
They pretty much run things themselves. I just'm here to coordinate," he said.
He started with a slide show a backpacking trip Bromke took through the Rocky Mountains. The purpose of the show was to introduce them to the physical beauty of the United States.
Much of the success of the program can probably be attributed to the active participation the members take in planning each week's activities, Broome said.
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After the slides, the problems of coping in a new country were discussed in small groups. One group, however, said that no advice could work for everybody.
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THE MEETINGS are from 7 to 9 p.m. at the American Baptist Student Center, 1629 W. 48th St. Baptist Student Union provides the meeting place and other support, but the Operation Team is not available.
The relationships that have resulted from operation Friendship have extended beyond the campus, where students at University. It has led to the exchange of correspondence and visits throughout the campus.
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Health professionals from across Kansas will gather today and toromow at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the state-wide physician shortage.
The professionals will be participating in the Med Center's annual Health Days program, which, according to A.J. Yarmat, associate director of Health Kansas, will be designed to bring Kansas health professionals together to discuss the shortage.
Joseph F. Harkins, secretary of the health and environment department of the Kansas Hospital Association, will be guest speakers during a lecture series
Yarmat said rural areas in particular were lacking physicians in primary health care. A study released recently by the Kansas Department of Health and Human Services, and western Kansas are the most underserved areas according to population.
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He said Gentry would speak on the problems rural communities have with keeping nurses and allied health professionals on their staffs.
An allied health professional works in medicine but is neither a nurse nor a doctor.
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"The dinner will give physicians a chance to meet face to face with residents at the Med Center. They can make contacts," he said.
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