University Daily Kansan, August 24, 1982
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Culture shock eased Families host foreigners
By GUELMA ANDERSON Staff Reporter
Coping with campus life is hard enough, but foreign students also face a language barrier and different customs.
THE LAWRENCE HOST Family Program, offered by the office of foreign student services, makes adjusting easier by giving students from other countries a chance to develop an intimate relationship with American families, said Barbara Puckett, coordinator of the program.
The host family committee, comprised of six Lawrence families, assigns the students to other families with compatible interests and backgrounds. The families then try to make the student feel welcome by inviting them to meals, outings, birthday celebrations and games, said Puckett.
The program is designed to help foreign students learn about and take part in American family life and to offer them the chance to learn about other cultures.
The majority of foreign students who participate in the program are from countries outside the U.S.
in addition to family activities, she said, the students take part in faculty and host family gatherings sponsored by the department becoming picnics and farewell barbecues.
Puckett了 75 families and 150 students participated last year.
sometimes families and students become so close that they find it difficult to separate when the year is over, she said.
Last year, Puckett hosted two male students from Holland.
"Just having them over was the important thing, making them feel like they're your boss."
Lapandah's host family. Gene and Barbara Burrell, have been hosts for 25 years.
Resina Lapandith, Malaysia senior, said the program did not make adjusting to the United States easier, but it made the adjustment enjoyable.
"We have hosted the children of one of our former guests from Japan," Mrs. Burnett said.
Shingeo Watanabe, their former guest, is now a well-known author of children's literature in Japan, and he comes in touch with the Burnets, she said.
ANOTHER LAWRENCE, family, AI and Winnie Gallup, have been hosts for six years. Last year their guest was Ing Chung Su, Taiwan graduate student.
"He seemed to take his studies very seriously," Mrs. Gallup said, "because many times he was not available when we invited him.
we have told us.
"One of the neat things about Lawrence is that it's a very cosmopolitan community," she said.
"We appreciated people in Taiwan who were exceptionally nice to us when we visited, so we thought this would be a good way to return the favor."
The program is another way to reach people of different cultures in Law.
Lapandit said the program was very popular among her foreign friends here and that many were not accepted by them because of a shortage of volunteer families.
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A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL was raped at 803 Massachusetts St. about p.m. Sunday, police said yesterday. The suspect, a black male, forced the girl into a car near Ben Franklin's and taped her mouth shut before appling his police said.
THEIEVES STOLE TOOLS valued at $5,727 from Hirtland Hardware, 1011 Westdale, about 5 p.m. Sunday, police said. Thieves forced entry by jimmying a garage door, police said. There are no suspects in the case.
BURGLAR'S STOLE $700 worth of stereo equipment, a gold lighter and two clocks from a locked apartment at the mall where Mr. said. There are no suspects in the case.
BURGLARIS STOLE $128 worth of stereo equipment from an unlocked car in Dillon's parking lot, 1800 Mass. St., about 9 p.m. Sunday, police said. There are no suspects in the case.
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Students protest lack of CS course offerings
Students wanting to enroll in Computer Science 210, a course that was closed after the first day of enrollment, met Monday night in Strong Hall to protest the lack of a sufficient number of sections of the class.
"In the last six years there have not been any new faculty members hired," said Earl Schweppe, professor of computer science. "I cannot maintain this pace forever and must find some way to get re-
As a result of a 4 percent budget cut, extra faculty could not be hired to handle the large influx of people wanting CS 210 and other computer courses, said Vic Wallace, chairman of the computer science department.
waiting list after the closing of the CS 210 section Thursday afternoon. For some of the students turned away it will mean a delayed graduation, and could prevent them from taking other computer science courses for which CS 210 is a prerequisite.
There were 153 students added to a
As a solution to handle the large number of students wanting CS 210, Schwpepe said he would expand his class from 50 people to 300. The other three sections will remain at about 50 students.
Med Center to get computer for billing, patient records
"We cannot have a quality computer science program in the future if we cannot continue to grow," said Wallace. "There is 10 percent more people this year than last year forcing us to stretch even more."
A new computer, which will combine billing procedures, will begin operating at the University of Kansas Medical Center Oct. 1, Richard L. Mann, director of institutional research, said yesterday.
The computer will replace a system that is 16 or 17 years old and has been built up as different functions were needed, he said.
"The new computer is state of the art equipment," Mann said.
Plans to replace the old computer began in April, 1981, when the Med Center was having problems with slow payments and inefficient billing.
Some of the billing that was done by hand now will be done by the computer.
Mann said the new system will improve patient and billing information, and also has the potential to save money.
Another added feature of the computer is that it will allow physicians access for their own billing purposes, he said.
The Kansas Legislature appropriated $250,000 then to update the system. But when the University researched costs, it found it would be just as economical to replace both hardware and software, Mann said.
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The appropriated money was then used for transitional costs, and money for the computer came from savings in the departmental budget, he said.
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When the Legislature was appropriating the money it also set up a committee to compare alternative systems for providing services in the system and it was purchased, Mann said.
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