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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 14, 1992
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Dramatic duel
Playing the part of Sir Ian McClennan, Ian Johnson (right), St. Joseph, Mo., junior, battles Lord William at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs. The festival, featuring Renaissance arts, crafts and entertainment, began Sept. 5 and will be open on weekends until Oct. 18.
Former Soviets adjust to KU life
Kansan staff writer
By Muneera Naseer
Kansas staff writer
It was not hard for Serge Kissane to adjust to a new environment, even though his home is halfway around the world.
The 23-year old student from Kiev, Ukraine, a city of about three million, said he was not experiencing culture shock in Lawrence.
"Our generation is really flexible ... in any culture," Kislitsa said. "The problem is to adjust in less developed cultures, but not (in) higher ones. We are not in a desert or the mountains of Nepal."
Kislisa is one of about 1,000 students coming to the United States for the first time from the Commonwealth of Independent States as part of the President's ThousandThousand program. The program is based on a cultural exchange agreement
signed by former-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President George Bush at the Malta summit in December 1989.
Nineteen students, including 14 from Russia and five from the Ukraine, are at the University of Kansas as part of the program.
Alan Holman, campus director for the exchange program, said KU had more students participating in the program than any other university.
"One way it benefits KU is to give an opportunity for students in the Russian and Eastern Studies program to speak Russian and practice the language," he said.
One thousand U.S. students will be leaving for the Commonwealth at different times in the near future.
Stanislav Bagno, a 22-year-old student from Moscow, said he learned a lot about the United States from
watching movies.
"I feel like all this around me is one big movie, and I'm starring in it," he said.
Bago said the impression of people in the United States that he got from movies was very close to what he experienced here.
University life in the United States is different from home for the foreign students. Going to classes in the former Soviet Union involves lengthy traveling by subway from one building to another because the campuses are often spread throughout the city.
"The people are very friendly,very hospitable," he said.
Food court will extend hours, menu choices
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
The students also found differences in KU's enrollment process. Students at Kishita's university in the Ukraine do not choose their own classes.
"You expected to attend lectures already scheduled for you," he said.
An orange, plastic-mesh fence now surrounds mounds of dirt and construction machinery behind Lewis Hall. But next fall, the area will be a dining facility where people in the five Daisy Hill residence halls can eat pizza and pasta, deli sandwiches, stir fry and ice cream.
The $2.5 million renovation and expansion of Lewis Hall's dining room began Aug. 24. Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the new dining area would offer more menu choices, longer serving hours and an inviting atmosphere for the residents of Lewis, Hashinger, McColllum, Ellsworth and Templin residence halls.
The housing department several years ago decided to build the food court in order to run the cafeterias more efficiently and to better serve residents, he said. The department conducted a resident survey and discussed the idea with members of the Association of University Residence Halls.
"We feel like we're going to be accommodating a lot of what the students wanted with the cafeteria expansion." Stoner said.
"It'll be more of a food court than a dining area." Stoner said.
Students wanting more entree selections can choose among the 12
food stations, which will include everything from a grill to a 16-foot salad bar. The food stations will offer three times the food choices than what each hall cafeteria now offers.
Students also will have more of a choice of when they want to eat, rather than eating during the specified cateraferia hours now available to students. The new serving hours will be approximately 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., although all the food stations will be open continuously. For example, all the food stations may be open during the peak dinner hours, but some may close in the late evening.
Stoner said that the various food station hours may be adjusted for finals week and special events like the Super Bowl.
He said that the cafeteria, which faces east, also would offer a beautiful view of campus and different levels and alcoves.
But the cafeteria will be big enough to accommodate 780 people at any one time, Stoner said. He said that if the five residence halls were filled, the cafeterias could serve up to 3,600 people, but that residents eat at different times.
"It won't look like a giant armory," he said.
However, the cafeteria's size is not what interests most students. Stefanie Caruthers, Kansas City freshman, said the extended hours would be great because she missed lunch on
Fine dining
Lewis Hall's $2.5 million renovation and expansion of its dining area will result in more menu choices, longer serving hours and an inviting atmosphere for the residents of Lewis, Hashinger, McColum, Ellsworth and Templin residence halls.
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the days that she had a class during the noon hour.
Caruthers, like other Lewis Hall residents this year, has to cross the street to eat at Templin Hall. Residents in the other three halls will continue to eat in their respective cafeterias this year. Once the Lewis Hall expansion is completed, the other four halls' cafeterias will be closed and used for other purposes, such as the computer lab at Ewellworth Hall. Stoner said.
Caruthers said she did not mind the walk but wondered if she would when the weather got cold. What does both sides do with a house noise from the construction, she said.
But students are looking forward to the expanded cafeteria. Templin resident Billy Davis, Topeka freshman, said that the extended hours and menu were a good idea and that the consolidation had another benefit.
"It's just that many more people I'll to meet." he said.
Grissom to appeal conviction
Bodies of three Kansas victims still not found
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The attorneys for Richard Grissom, who was convicted of three counts of murder, will argue before the Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday that he cannot be found guilty because the bodies of three women were never found.
Grissom became a suspect in the 1989 serial murders when various types of identification were found in a car of one of the victims.
Grissom's attorney.
Deputy Appellate Defender Steven R. Zinn,
raises 16 issues in the appeal, including the admission of incriminating statements
Grismo made
Richard Grissom
to the FBI while he was in custody in Texas. He was arrested by federal agents at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport on July 1, 1989, and was later convicted in Johnson County District Court.
Zinn also contends that Kansas did not have jurisdiction in the case since the three victims were last seen in
Missouri.
Missing and presumed dead are Joan Butler, who lived in Overland Park, and Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown, who shared an apartment in Lenexa. Butler was a 1987 graduate of the University of Kansas.
Grissom was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder, although the three bodies were never found; one count of kidnapping, two counts of burglary and four counts of robbery.
The trial judge sentenced him to four life sentences and six terms of 15 years to 60 years.
Prosecutors content that Grissom told FBI agents that "everything happened in Kansas and that nothing would be found in Missouri."
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Rough stuff
Pat Manza, Leavenworth sophomore, charges with the ball into the University of Nebraska-Lincoln defense during a rugby match on Saturday at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. The KU rugby club won 31-25.
Local agency refuses Bush
The Associated Press
A Lawrence agency given one of President Bush's "Point of Light" awards declined to share the spotlight with him Friday as he made a campaign swing through Missouri.
Jean Marr, acting director of Health Care Access, said the agency was contacted Wednesday to see if a representative would meet with Bush when he visited several Missouri cities.
"We refused," Marr said. "We didn't want to be seen as making an endorsement. We did talk with several of our board members. It was a joint decision. It wasn't a decision I made alone."
Bush's staff told Health Care Access that the meeting would not be part of the campaign and that Bush routinely met with recipients of the "Daily Point of Light Recognition Award" from his Office of National Service, she said.
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