THE FAR SIDE
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 12, 1987
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By GARY LARSON
At first, the crew could hear only the creaking of oars. And then, out of the fog, the ghost dinghy appeared.
Campus/Area
Foreign students, families share holiday
By BEN IOHNSTON
Staff writer
About 45 foreign students who attend the University of Kansas will be able to enjoy turkey, pumpkin pie and all the other trimmings of a traditional Thanksgiving with a U.S. family.
Under a program called Home-
stay, foreign students will live with
host families from Nov. 25 to Nov. 29.
The program has been sponsored by
the office of foreign student services
for the last 20 years.
Pat Willer, assistant director of foreign student services and coordinator of Homestead, said most students in the program this year would
live with families in the Topeka, Wichita and Kansas City areas.
Willer said that most students in the program were first-year students who may feel homesick their first holiday away from home.
The program is often the first opportunity the students have to meet a U.S. family, Willer said.
"It is good for the students to be spoiled by a family, even if it is not their own." Willer said.
"The student has a little bit more opportunity to see American society and American life than they would encounter at KU." Willer said.
Willer said most host families participated for more than one year. She
I hey just didn't care that I was a stranger.'
Antonio Quiroz
Lima, Peru, sonjar
Lima, Peru, senior
For five days last Thanksgiving.
said many families volunteered to be host to a student after they heard about the program in newspapers, or on television or radio. Also, families of KU students who study abroad are sent letters that ask them if they would like to invite a foreign student for Thanksgiving, she said.
Antonio Quirio, Lima, Peru, senior, lived with a Topeka family. During that time, he went shopping with them, watched TV with them, and described the culture and geography of Peru to them.
"They just didn't care that I was a tiger," Quirzo said. "I'ttanger treat me."
Stephanie Chou, Kowloon, Hong Kong, freshman, said she spent last Thanksgiving with an Overland Park family. She said family members helped her learn how to cook baked potatoes.
"I learned their lifestyle, and what Americans usually do, and how the dinner style differs," Chou said.
Two KU debaters still in hospitals
One is upgraded to fair condition, one remains serious
By a Kansan reporter
Two members of the KU debate team remain in Nashville hospitals after a wreck Oct. 29 that killed another member of the squad.
Ofray Hall, Manhattan senior, has been upgraded to fair condition at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said last night. Hall has a fractured vertebra, a broken right femur and lung injuries.
Peter Cannistra, Brooklyn, N.Y., junior, remained in serious but stable condition at the St. Thomas Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokesman said.
John Fritch, Palmyra, Neb., graduate student, was discharged this week from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a spokesman said. Fritch suffered a broken left collar bone and right arm in the accident.
N. D., junior, died at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center the day after the accident.
David Macdonald, 20. Bismarck,
On the Record
The accident occurred as nine debate team members were traveling in a van to a debate tournament at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. Their van swerved to avoid hitting a deer and ran off a highway near the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
- An AM-FM radio/cassette player and radar detector valued together at $518 were taken between midnight and 8 a.m. Sunday from a car parked in the 1100 block of Mississippi Street, Lawrence police reported.
■ A pair of speakers, an equalizer and a radar detector valued together at $213 were taken between midnight and 8 a.m. Sunday from a car parked in the 2400 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police reported.
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