University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 9, 1986
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Paraguay, Kansas to trade students
By TONY BALANDRAN
TOPEKA - Students at the University of Kansas and other Board of Regents schools will have an opportunity to attend a Paraguayan university at the same cost as native students.
In a joint agreement signed yesterday by officials from two Paraguayan universities and from the Regents schools, qualified students from both countries can pay resident fees when they attend each others' universities.
Father Juan Oscar Usher, president of Catholic University, and Dionision Gonzales Torres, rector of National University, signed the agreement with presiding officers from all seven Regents institutes.
Both of the foreign schools are located in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay.
Three years ago, KU became the first university to exchange students with Paraguay, said Ben J. Wiens, executive director of Kansas-Paraguay Partners. Soon after, Kansas State University also began an exchange program with Paraguay. Now all the Regents schools can participate.
Under the agreement, each Regents school will accept up to 12 Paraguayan students who graduate from an accredited secondary school and who meet the admission requirements, he said.
The two Paraguayan schools will reciprocate by offering their schools to 12 certified students of the Regents schools, he said.
Kansas-Paraguay Partners is the organization that oversees the program.
"I think this is a historic moment for our two universities, especially with the group of faculties in this country." Torres said through a translator during the ceremony.
Catholic University and National University are the only two universities in Paraguay, said Charles Stansifer, a KU professor of history, director of Latin American Studies and former president of KPP.
"The advantage of an intellectual agreement is that we can stretch our hands across borders," he said. "I hope and pray to God that this agreement will become a stronger relationship between our two countries."
The KPP, which began in 1968, operates through
the partners of the Americas, a program initiated under the Kennedy administration.
Partners of the Americas is designed to link countries or provinces of South America to individual states in the United States by encouraging international exchange programs for students and faculty.
The agreement is the result of an 18-year endeavor by the KPP. Wiens said.
The Kansas-Paraguay program is the only educational agreement between the Paraguayan institutions and any educational organization in the United States, said Wiens.
The link between Kansas and Paraguay is one of 56 partnerships joining 27 Latin American and Caribbean nations with 45 states, said Merrill Rabb, president of KPP.
Before 1971, Kansas law did not allow the governing boards of Kansas colleges and universities to enter into reciprocal agreements with foreign colleges and universities, Wiens said.
Wiens said he thought the delay was caused by the Regents schools' disagreement with the program's design.
Survey indicates indigent problem
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TOPEKA — A new survey indicates almost 25 percent of all Kansans are medically indigent or having serious trouble paying their medical bills, a problem that shocks and perplexes some state leaders.
The survey results, released this month by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council, estimate that 381,000 Kansans do not have the financial resources to pay for their own health care or are not covered by public or private health insurance.
At least one official, Robert Harder, secretary of the state's Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, yesterday said he was skeptical of the high figure but could not refute it.
State Sen. Roy Ehrlich, R-Hoisington, heads a legislative study committee on public health and welfare that is studying the problem of medically uninsured Kansans.
In an interview yesterday, Ehrlich said members of his committee were concerned with the problem and perplexed over how the state should respond.
Ehrlich's committee has scheduled a public hearing Sep. 22 and at Wichita State University to take comment from those affected by the problem, including hospitals, employers and those without health insurance.
Ehrlich said members of his committee also would study whether for-profit hospitals were carrying their share of the burden of providing free health care to the medically indigent.
Ehrlich said that the problem of medically indigent people was a national one but that it had become more pronounced in Kansas in recent years because of the agriculture crisis and oil and gas industry layoffs.
Harder, who oversees the state's welfare system, said he doubted that the number of medically indigent Kansans was as high as the survey indicated.
Harder said one measure of Kansans in need of medical aid was the number who had been forced off the state's medical-only assistance program. From 1977 to 1986, he said, 18,000 recipients had been trimmed from the program because of tougher eligibility requirements.
But he said that many more Kansans hit by the agriculture and energy industry slumps probably had been forced to drop any insurance coverage they might have in order to make ends meet.
Delegates from China visit Carlin and cities
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Carlin and Secretary of Administration Alden Shields gave hearty greetings to officials they had met when they visited China. Among new friends were the mayors of three cities in Henan that Kansas delegations have never visited.
Hu presented a letter from Henan's Gov. He Zhukan congratulating Kansas on its 125th anniversary.
TOPEKA — The welcome for delegates from Henan Province was a meeting of "old friends and new friends," in the translated words of Vice Governor Hu Tiyun, the head of the delegation from China, Kansas' sister state.
Govern John Carlin and his cabinet yesterday greeted the eight member
mote friendly relations," said the letter, as translated by the delegation's interpreter, Wang Ping. The letter cited cooperation in economic development, trade, education and public health.
"In the last five years, Governor Canin has done a great deal to pro-
The delegation is to be in Kansas through Sept. 14. Officials are to visit several Kansas cities, including a stop at the Kansas State Fair.
The delegation is planning a trip tomorrow to the Furley hazardous waste dump at Wichita.
The delegation presented Carlin a photo album that contained photographs of Carlin's trip to China.
Thursday the group will stop in Topeka and Lawrence. Friday the tour will visit Manhattan, Garden City and Liberal.
The Chinese will depart for Overland Park on Saturday and leave from Kansas City International Airport on Sunday.
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