Monday, August 25,1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Volunteers scrub sleep to help
Their gift of time benefits centers
By Gwen Olson
Kansan staff writer
Taking time out to give back to the community can be an important part of college, even if it means missing a chance to sleep in on a Saturday morning.
About 80 KU students volunteered around Lawrence Saturday, helping out by cleaning, sorting, picking up trash and painting. The project, part of activities during Hawk Week, was sponsored by the Office of New Student Orientation and the Center for Community Outreach.
"Last year was the first time we tried this with cleaning up around Clinton Lake, but there were no more than 20 non-staff participants," said Heather Stoehr, Omaha, Neb., graduate student and Hawk Week coordinator.
The students volunteered at the Pelathe Community Center, the Lawrence Social Service League and the East Lawrence Recreation Center. They met at 10 a.m. at the Kansas Union and took buses to each center.
At the Pelathe Community Center, 1423 Haskell Ave., formerly the Lawrence Indian Center, students worked pulling weeds, painting and cleaning.
"I heard about the activity at my scholarship hall," said Becky Johnson, Overland Park freshman and resident of Douthart Scholarship Hall. "We're going to try to do as many things as we can today."
Most of the volunteers were from scholarship and residence halls.
Volunteers at the East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 E. 15th St., picked trash out of a creek behind the center. The students, who wore rubber gloves, found everything from candy wrappers to dirty clothes and a tricycle.
"We're from Battenfield Scholar ship Hall, and about 16 of us came out, which is a little better than one-third of our hall," said Chris Hess, Wichita sophomore. "This is more than we've ever had out on one of these projects, that's for sure."
"It's been good, but it's pretty messy," said Heather Norris, St. Louis freshman and resident of McCollum Hall. "The clothes are the most disgusting thing we've found."
At the Lawrence Social Service League, 905 Rhode Island St., about 30 students cleaned and organized clothing donations.
Norris said it was the first volunteer work she had done but that she planned to do more work in the future.
Scott Griggsy, Shawnee senior, pulls garbage out of Brook Creek, behind the East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 E. 15th. Griggsy was one of a large group of volunteers who helped by painting, pulling weeds and clean up trash in four areas around Lawrence. Photo by Pam Dishman/KANSAN
"They just need all sorts of help sorting," said Kelly Thompson, Springfield, Mo., junior. "We have been folding things, putting them into boxes and moving them into the warehouse."
Area businesses including Kwik Shop, Burger King and Bagel & Bagel donated refreshments for the volunteers. The Lawrence Social Service League also had muffins and tea for their volunteers.
Organizers said they were pleased with the number of students who participated.
"For a Saturday morning, we had a really good turnout," said Emily Heath, Oskaloosa senior and co-director of the Center for Community Outreach. "There are lots of new people here, and scholarship
and residence halls came out in full force."
For more information about community service contact the Center for Community Outreach at 864- 4073.
Kansan staff writer
By Ryan Koerner
You will have to look farther than the fall "Timetable of Classes" to find the newest options in foreign language classes.
The program distinguishes the University as one of four North American universities to offer such a program.
For the first time at the University of Kansas, the Department of Latin American Studies is offering beginning classes in two indigenous languages, Kaqchikel, a Mayan language, and Quichua, an Inca language.
The classes are not in the fall
timetable because details had not
been finalized when the timetables
were published.
The University of Iowa, the University of Texas and Tulane University already offer similar classes, said John Hoopes, acting director of Latin American Studies.
"The classes are pretty small right now," Hoops said. "But the classes will be taught regardless of what the enrollment is."
Hoopes said there were no prerequisites for the classes. And knowledge of another foreign language, such as Spanish, is not necessary.
Because the indigenous language
program is a two-year program, students can fulfill their entire foreign-language requirement with one of the languages, Hoopes said.
Two new instructors have been hired to teach the courses. Both are native speakers of the language they will teach.
Martina Masaquiza, a native of central Ecuador, has been hired as a lecturer to teach the Quichua class. Masaquiza was an elementary school teacher in Ecuador and has since taught Quichua at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"The Western people come into our countries and teach us their ways and divide our people," Masaquiza said. "That is why our language is dying. By teaching the American students Quichua, I can use the linguistics to teach them my history and culture."
Masaquiza said that her language still was spoken throughout Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. She estimated that between 13 million and 14 million people speak Quichua as their native language.
The Kaqchikel class will be taught by a graduate teaching assistant, Pakal B'alam of Guatemala. B'alam has written two books on Kaqchikel and has collaborated on three others. A native speaker of both Kaqchikel and Spanish, he is now a student of English.
Pakal B'am, graduate teaching assistant, is teaching a class in Kachikhel, a Mayan language. Along with Martina Masaquiza's Quichua class, an Inca language, B'am's class distinguishes the University of Kansas as one of four universities offering a program in the indigenous languages. Dave Morantz/KANSAN
B'alam and Masaquiza's classes are made possible through a $2.6 million grant to the University from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant money will be divided among the Latin American Studies program, the East Asian Studies program and the Center for Russian and East European Studies.
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