UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Tuesdav. August 27.1996 5 Foreign students hit road for food Lawrence stores also offer recipes for exotic foods By Nicholas C. Charalambous Kansas staff writer Ask international students what they miss about home and food is sure to be high on the list. Food isn't just about nutrition. It's more important than that. It connects a person to the sights, sounds and smells of home and can express love and friendship. For Arsalan Nayyar, Karachi, Pakistan, junior, the mangoes available in Lawrence just don't compare to those in Pakistan. More than 15 types of mangoes grow in Pakistan and are called the "King of Fruits," Nayyar said. People eat mangoes for an entire meal, he said, and villagers take part in a contest of endurance to see who can eat the most. Some international students don't like eating unhealthy American fast food. "I wouldn't mind eating hamburgers for a week," Nayyar said. "But you know how awful they are." Nayyar tried Dillons, Hy-Vee and Food 4 Less but couldn't find what he wanted. Now he drives to Kansas City to pick up the special types of coriander, curry powder, chili powder and paprika he needs for an authentic curvy. Daphne Charalambidou, Nicosia, Cyprus, graduate student, spent her first two weeks in Kansas holed up in the Mad Greek restaurant before she decided that a weekly shopping trip to Kansas City was the answer. Both students stomach the added expense of fuel on top of the high cost of imported food. But international students may be overlooking stores a little closer to home. Lawrence has two organic food stores, Community Mercantile Co-Op, 901 Mississippi St., and Wild Oats Community Market, 1040 Vermont St., with a large selection of herbs, spices and foreign foods. At Wild Oats, Charalambidi would have found feta cheese for her Greek salad, grape International markets Wild Oats Community Market, 1040 Vermont St. 865-3737. Open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday. Community Mercantile Co-Op, 901 Mississippi St. 843-8544. Open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m on Sunday. Shin Asian Supermarket, 2249 Iowa St. 841-104. Open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday. - Oriental Supermarket, 711 W. 23rd St. Suite 4.86-0900. Open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10.30 a.m to 7 p.m. on Sunday. leaves and fresh mint for dolmades, okra, artichoke hearts, hummus and couscous. And after her shopping she could have eaten baldava with her coffee. And Lawrence has two stores, Shin Asian Supermarket, 2249 Iowa St., and Oriental Supermarket, 711 W. 23rd St., Suite 4, serving the large number of KU students with tastes for oriental foods. Oriental Supermarket is full of foods imported from China, Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Indonesia and the Middle East. Its shelves are stuffed with packets of dried seaweed and dried bean curd, and tins of bamboo shoots and quail eggs are stacked three high. You also can find yams, chilies and tahini, a sesame paste. Owner Ananh Manixai said about 50 to 60 percent of his customers were students. Umanaw Hongsavase, Bangkok, Thailand, graduate student, prepares Thai food every day. She said she did the bulk of her shopping at the store, only a five-minute drive from her Meadowbrook apartment. It took only two days for her to find the store when she arrived in Lawrence. If it didn't exist, "maybe I'd move to another university," she said. Honors tutorial examines impact of high school days Maybe she wasn't kidding. Kansan staff writer By Eric Weslander The Beach Boys loved it. Ferris Bueller didn't. But nearly everyone who survived high school thinks that it affected his or her life significantly. This semester, 13 KU students will take an in-depth look at what high school meant to them. Four Years and a Cloud of Dust: An Analysis of High School is the name of a freshman honors tutorial that will cover every aspect of high school including class work, teachers, extracurricular activities and social life. Freshman honors tutorials are small, onecredit courses offered to freshmen in the honors program. Michael Imber, professor of educational policy and leadership, volunteered to teach the course because he wanted to discover students' views on the goals and purposes of high school, he said. "I think that as a society we labor under terrible misconceptions about what goes on in high school," Imber said. "It seems that often there are few connections to the supposed learning goals and that the schools are tolerant of that." "You don't have to care to graduate from high school," said Mindi Carden, Olathe freshman. Carden, who is taking the class to see how her high school experiences have shaped her, said high school made a lasting impression on people because it was a time to make important social choices. "High school is a time to develop decisions about how your personality will be," she said. "Whether it is a positive or negative experience, it does have an effect of some kind." Sean Brumwell, Overland Park freshman, said one year of high school was the same as the next. He said his college experience has been interesting so far because it has emphasized self-sufficiency. Each student will write a retrospective analysis during the semester, and the essays will be combined into a book, Imber said. He said the honors students' views would make the essays interesting. "People talk about their high school days as if they were really fun, but if that's as good as it gets, that's kind of pathetic," he said. "They will have a perspective that is going to be colored by the fact that they were successful," Imber said. "These are the ones that it's supposed to have worked for, so let's see what they have to say." Library data will go online allow access Workstations will be upgraded throughout the school year Searching through the 3.4 million volumes housed in the KU library system is about to become easier, faster and more accessible to students. Throughout the academic year, the University will be installing Virtua automated library management software. By Bradley Brooks Kansan staff writer "A person is going to be able to do more for themselves, and there will be more power in this system for searching," said John Miller, University automation librarian. In June, the University signed a contract with VTLS, Inc., of Blacksburg, Va., to purchase Virtua, an integrated library system. Virtua will allow many functions at the library to be accessible from a single PC workstation. The Virtua system will be implemented in the eight libraries on the Lawrence campus, and the KU Medical Center will also implement Virtua on its Kansas City and Wichita campuses. "This system will allow a user to do things like see what they have checked out and to renew books themselves," Miller said. "This will be the first time all the libraries will be working together," Miller said. "We're all moving to one big, integrated commercial package." Miller said that the University chose the Virua system over five other systems. "It was a tough choice between two of the systems," Miller said. "The combination of the company and the fact that the product was doing what we wanted was why we went with VTLS." Miller said the entire project was costing the University $2 million. A portion of the money is a special allocation from the state called the System Wide Access Plan. Some money is from the libraries and University's budgets, and the rest was borrowed from Master Lease Purchase, which loans money to state agencies. The University and the libraries will jointly pay back the loan over the next three years. Included in the cost is maintenance on the system by VTLS, Inc. Barbara Scheid, manager of U.S. VTLS systems, said that this maintenance included a yearly two-day visit by VTLS technicians to the University. "All updates and future enhancements of the software that KU bought will be provided by us for no charge," Scheid said. Miller said that more than half of the price of the project was being spent on the hardware needed to run the Virtua software. All of the workstations in the libraries will be replaced with 300 new PCs, all of which will have Internet access. With the new software, students will be able to access the libraries' online catalog from their home computers via the World Wide Web or by using telenet. William Crowe, vice-chancellor of information services and dean of libraries, said Miller and others had been working on this project for nearly three years. "This is the Manhattan Project of libraries," Crowe said. "John was the leader. He has kept it all together during this very complicated process." Miller said that he optimistically hoped to see the entire system running by spring break, but that he was realistically looking at the end of June as the start-up time. August 23-29 Set-Sun Fri.Mon-Tues House arrest15 1:30 4:30 Courage Under Fire3 1:30 7:00, 9:30 Alaska16 1:10 4:20, 7:10 Escape from L.A.4 1:50 Bordello of Blood17 1:40 7:00, 9:40 Bordello of Blood18 1:40 7:10, 9:50 岛 of Dr. Morreau19 1:10 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 Carpool20 1:10 7:00, 9:30 $35 SOLO Adult Before Hearing + Baby 0 P.M. - 8 P.M. 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