CAMPUS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 21, 1995
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Learning from a distant land
KU receives visitors from Ukraine, Japan
Carol Thobae / KANSAN
Ukrainian guests to learn business American style
A group of Ukrainian entrepreneurs and educators cheered for the Jayhawks during Thursday night's football game. The game was one of their activities during their month-long stay here.
Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
free enterprise is the language of business. And for twelve Ukrainian educators and entrepreneurs, the University of Kansas is its translator.
The Ukrainians are at the University this month studying small business development, entrepreneurship and business management. After a month of special seminars and field trips, six participants will stay an additional month for an internship with area businesses.
"There is a close and intimate relationship between democracy and a market economy," said Tony Redwood, director of the center for international business. "The development of business skills is essential to the political and economic reforms taking place in Ukraine."
The participants are from the Lviv area in western Ukraine. Ukraine, which has emerged as one of the most powerful independent states of the former Soviet Union, is still in the earliest stages of moving from a state-controlled economy to a market system.
"It is experienced entrepreneurs that are most needed to make Ukrainian economic reforms ultimately successful," said John Garland, professor of business. "Most Ukrainian entrepreneurs have scant knowledge of business planning, modern management methods, marketing, product development, and sound business ethics."
The Ukrainians have been
impressed so far with the training they have received at the University.
"We have enjoyed the preparation that KU has done," said Yaroslav Popovych, speaking though an interpreter. "It will be very useful for me and the people who work with me."
Irina Gipp, a Ukrainian business student who wants to go into the small restaurant business, also speaking through an interpreter, said she especially appreciated touring local businesses.
"In addition to theory, we get to see how small businesses are run."
she said. "We get to compare how business is done here and in Ukraine."
Upon returning to Ukraine, the entrepreneurs will develop comprehensive business plans for their enterprises. In November, five KU faculty will travel to L'viv to evaluate the business plans and to give a series of lectures on small business development at the Lviv School of Management.
"Not only will promising Ukrainian entrepreneurs receive valuable instruction and personal experience," she said, "but several members of the School of Business faculty will acquire a hands-on understanding of the problems, challenges, and opportunities of doing business in the former Soviet Union."
Maria Carlson, director of the center for Russian and East European studies, said the training program will benefit both the Ukrainians and
Money for the small business development project came from a $129,302 grant from the United States Information Agency, Office of Citizen Exchanges.
KU.
Sister university delegates visit Lawrence, KU
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
KU east met KU west last week, and the relationship between Japan and the United States has once again been strengthened.
Kanagawa University, which has
At Tuesday's city commission meeting, Mayor Bob Moody recognized a delegation from Kanagawa University, including the new president of the university and the new chairman of the board of directors, by presenting them each with a pin depicting a phoenix rising from the ashes.
The delegation arrived in Lawrence Sunday to spend a few days getting acquainted with KU and Lawrence.
While in Lawrence, the delegation met with KU administrators, visited the offices of International Studies, Study Abroad and the Applied English Center, attended Japanese classes and sessions in business and law and visited campus museums, said George Woodyard, dean of international studies and chairman of the Lawrence Sister Cities Program. They also saw Lawrence landmarks such as the Naismith Memorial and Clinton Lake.
Woodyard said that he was exited about extending programs and faculty involvement between both universities, and about continuing the six-week exchange program at both KU east and KU west.
The Lawrence Sister Cities Program consists of two groups in
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Lawrence: the Friends of Eutin, Germany and the Friends of Hiratsuka.
These groups correspond directly with the two sister cities, said Bob Schumm, Mister Cities advisory board member. They then report to the Sister Cities advisory board.
"We serve at the pleasure and appointment of the mayor and advise commissioners of the sister cities," Schumm said of the advisory board.
Schumm said the visiting delegation represented a meeting of two colleges rather than two cities, but that one program supported the other.
"We're seeing an increase in the interest of Japan."
He said enrollment had increased in Japanese classes at KU, and that Lawrence High School now offered Japanese studies and exchange programs.
AIDS quilt on display at Fort Hays
By Scott Mullen Kansan staff writer
Patti Scott's dream is coming true.
PAD HAYS
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial
Quilt will be displayed tonight through
Sunday at Fort Hays State University.
"I've been wanting to bring the quilt to Hays for over five years." Scott said.
scott, director of the Student Health Center at Fort Hays, has been working for the past 10 months with more than 1,000 people to bring the quilt to Kansas. She wrote letters to the NAMES project asking it to send the quilt to Hays, and her interest convinced the project to send the quilt to its first Western Kansas location.
"There are over 31,000 panels on the quilt," Scott said. "However, the quilt only represents 11 percent of the people who have died of AIDS."
The quilt traces its roots to San Francisco in 1987. Friends and lovers of AIDS victims marched to a government building and protested the lack of federal funding for the disease. Writing down the names of AIDS victims on pieces of paper, the protesters taped them to the building. At night, the pieces of paper reminded the protesters of a quilt.
"You see AIDS statistics in the news every day," Scott said. "It doesn't mean anything to people — they're just numbers. Like a jet crash, it doesn't seem real. The quilt illustrates the humanity behind the statistics."
The quilt will be displayed in the city of Hays. Take I 70 West to Hays.
Ed Kowalski/ Kansas
Each quilt panel is 6x3 feet — the standard size of a grave.
The entire quilt is the size of more than thirteen football fields, so only a section is being brought to Fort Hays. Nine hundred panels will be displayed, including panels remembering Ryan White, Arthur Ashe, Anthony Perkins, Liberace and Rock Hudson.
Scott said she hoped students from the University of Kansas would drive to Hays to view the quilt, especially because 70 percent of new AIDS victims are heterosexuals under the age of 25.
"The quilt will alter people's perception of AIDS and reinforce the idea that people from Western Kansas are not immune to the HIV virus," said L.P. Kiatoukaysi, Hutchinson sophomore. Kiatoukaysi said he was considering going to see the quilt while it was in Hays.
Not everyone is optimistic about the quilt. Anti-gay activist Fred Phelps and members of his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka plan to protest the quilt's display. Phelps has already sent critical faxes to the Hays police department and The Hays Daily News.
Scott, however, is unfazed by Phelps' actions.
"We are just going to ignore Fred," she said.
During the quilt's closing ceremonies on Sunday, the public is invited to add additional panels to the famous quilt. Scott already expects nine new panels to be introduced to the project.
The quilt will be unfolded at 7 tonight and will be on display until 10 in Gross Memorial Coliseum at Fort Hays. Viewing times on Friday and Saturday are from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on Sunday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The event is free.
"I really hope this will bring out the humanity in people by making us more compassionate," Scott said. "It's our problem, not someone else's."
On your honor
Jenny Brannan/ KANSAN
Cadets Robert Cranbill, Wichita junior, Jason May, Peabody junior, and Mark Schulenberg, Mound City sophomore, lower the flag during an Air Force ROTC retreat ceremony. Cadets participate in the ceremony once each semester.