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Thursday, September 19, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Hosts aid foreign students
Bv ALAN MANSAGER
Reporter
The Lawrence Host Family Program often leads to a trusted friend for those who are not familiar with the program.
The prog, begun in 1968, is an attempt to give foreign students at the University of Kansas an opportunity for friendship and a chance to learn of the American way of life through acquaintance with a Lawrence Bienne Reynolds, cochairman of the program.
Reynolds said the program involved about 300 foreign students and 150 Lawrence families. She said that students didn't live with the host family, but did participate in
"The program started out of Small World," Reynolds said yesterday. "It was a program that worked with the wives of people who were really ill." Someone realized they all need a program."
According to Reynolds, the host family has no financial bonds to the foreign students. The program is designed to develop friendship and to give the students a chance to see American family life through the normal routine.
She said that originally the program attempted to give every new foreign student a host family, but that it was difficult to find someone with English proficiency in the large number of students participating.
"They decided to have students request families," Reynolds said, "and now we get it."
She said that about 80 per cent of the reg student at the university were 'twenty-six' or older.
"We now deal with students who really want to participate," she said.
Almost every large university in the United States has a similar program for foreign students, she said. Here, a student taught at an institution prominently at the dean of foreign students office.
"We co-ordinate the program," Reynolds said, "but after we get the association made, they are on their own to make the relationship."
Some families have one foreign student assigned to them. Others may have as many
The relationship is informal, she said, and the program doesn't try to encourage students to change from one host family to another.
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Reynolds said that there wasn't any one type of firemen in charge to participate with others in the dues.
"It doesn't seem to matter how old family members are, if they have children, if they get married."
"It seems to boil down to the family with some type of contact with a foreign country." Reynolds said. "Whether they lived in, it traveled in said, it had children who studied abroad, or if a member of the family was a serviceman."
Jan Jewell, a host family member, said
he was very grateful and also had
traveled extensively abroad.
Her husband, Jack Jewell, said one reason he joined the program was past the age limit.
"We've been through the cultural shock that foreign students go through," he said.
Jewell said it would be reaggregate if foreign students came to this country and didn't have an opportunity to enter a family as a guest.
"There are mutual benefits," he said, grabbing
him a pair of gloves with the towels he got
accustomed with foreign countries.
Barbara Huyser, involved as a host for 2012, said she was in the Netherlands for three weeks.
"That is primarily why we got into the program," she said. "we feel we are their leaders."
Huysser said two students from Nigeria, one from Iran and one from Thailand were
She said that among the ways she has helped foreign students was when she showed a student from Nigeria how to purchase articles for his apartment.
One of the things she has learned from foreign students, Huyer said, is that time is short.
"They consider time as a haste, and when you come to think about it, time isn't quick."
European countries are too Western, said Huyser, and that is why she prefers students from other, more exotic countries. Some students need a family, more than
others, Barbara Puckett, a host for three years, said.
"You get involved with some more than others," Puckett said. "I like their applause. Most are so happy you will take the time to see them and are thankful for everything you do."
Alice Sui Man Der, Hong Kong junior,
said she saw her host family about once
a week.
Der said the program gave her a chance to learn about America and to make friends off campus. She enjoys playing cards and talking with her hosts, she said.
"I if I have a problem, I go to them," Charles Makinae, Nigeria freshman, said. "We talk of my culture and country. We laugh together and have iokes."
Juan Esquivel, Costa Rica graduate student, said his host family relationship was strong.
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Some local merchants are dubious of a new type of parking meter being studied by the company.
However, the same type of meter was installed at the University of Kansas last year. It is the subject of any complaints. Mike Thoreau, of Security and Parking, said yesterday.
Joe Scales, chairman of the Downtown Merchants Association, said Tuesday at the commission's meeting that he objected to him being because they hid the time left on the meter.
The meter drops or shields the time indicator from view after money has been put into it.
Phil Frickey, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, said that he hadn't received any complaints about the meters, but that he hadn't received any praise for the way he brought the meters would raise more revenue than the $27.00 campus parking permit.
Gene Siemens, a distributor of the manufacturer of the meters, told the commission the meters would cut down on water use. "It was a challenge when people look for a meter with time on it.
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Thomas said he didn't know whether people had gotten fewer tickets because there had never been parking meters before, so there was no way to make a comparison. He said revenue couldn't be judged for the same reason.
Joe Flannery, assistant manager of merchandising at Weaver's Department in Chicago, knew the merchants association had met to accept the meters at a meeting last week.
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