UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 12, 1994
5A
KU welcomes diversity
By Nathan Olson
Kansan staff writer
For Nina Luchterhand, Hamburg,
Germany, graduate student, leaving
Hamburg for a year means seeing the
sun.
"I've been at KU a month, and since that time, I don't think it's stopped raining in Hamburg," said Luchter-hand, whose Fulbright scholarship will allow her to study at the University of Kansas this year.
Luchterhand was one of approximately 150 people who attended a reception for visiting international scholars yesterday at the Central Court of the Spencer Museum of Art.
The reception, which has taken place each year for the past nine years, was sponsored by the Office of International Studies and Phi Beta Delta, the honorary society for international students.
The reception is held for visiting faculty, researchers and special graduate students, such as Fulbright
scholarship recipients.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, attended the reception. He said the event was designed to introduce international scholars to the University and the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"The reception gives scholars the chance to meet faculty from other disciplines," he said.
Interaction between permanent KU faculty members and visiting international scholars is important, said Michael Doudoroff, professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
"There are so many international activities on campus which have been growing steadily over the years that some point of contact is extremely useful," he said.
The purpose of the reception was two-fold, said Terry Weidner, acting dean of international studies.
"First, we want to welcome international folks to KU," he said. "Second, we want to let them become aware of the cultural opportunities at KU."
The scholars were welcomed by Chancellor Del Shankel. Shankel told them that they had a rich diversity of opportunities available to them at KU.
Some cultural opportunities were presented in short speeches. The directors of the art museum, the Lied Center and the University Theatre spoke about current and forthcoming events.
Hodgie Bricke, assistant director of international studies, said the reception gave the administrators a chance to meet international students.
"This reception is the only time the University recognizes in one place that there are more than 200 international students at KU," she said.
For Nina Luchterhand, who is studying art theory this year, the reception made her feel more comfortable about being at KU.
"In Germany, I feel pretty anonymous," she said. "Here, I'm more familiar to people."
Homeless will eat free at cafe
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
In October, a new restaurant will open in Lawrence — a restaurant that will serve free breakfast every week.
But not just anybody can eat in the Jubilee Cafe, which is scheduled to open Oct. 11. The cafe will serve free breakfast Tuesday mornings to Lawrence's homeless and destitute. And the organizers need KU student volunteers to serve and interact with the customers.
The idea comes from a former chapain of the Canterbury House, 1116 Louisiana St., said the Rev. Joe Alford, current chapain, Julia Easley, the former chapain, started a service in Iowa City, Iowa, which served free breakfast to the homeless once each week. Instead of the long lines in soup kitchens, customers could sit down at a table and select from a menu.
So Alford and Neya Koury, Iowa City, Iowa, senior who worked at Easley's restaurant in Summer 1993, decided to start one of their own in Lawrence. About 30 homeless people
would be issued free membership cards through various social service offices in Lawrence that allowed them to eat free at the cafe.
"It was such a different approach to helping people in need of a meal," Koury said. "It's a way to serve people with a little more dignity."
Koury said the cafe would serve an important function. In soup kitchens, the homeless sometimes can feel like they are part of a mass, she said. In the cafe, they can feel like individuals.
"We're not trying to put down soup kitchens, Koury said. "They're doing a good deed. But they're just not personal. It's more of a human, personal approach to getting a free meal."
Koury also said the food would be better than the peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches the homeless often eat — sandwiches the homeless call "choke sandwiches" because they are difficult to eat.
Alford said the cafe would benefit both the volunteers and those who eat there. Servers would learn that homeless are individuals, not a mass of faceless people.
with the guests and get involved with them," Alford said.
The cafe would allow students to get directly involved in their volunteer work, not work in an office or do menial tasks. Alford said.
"One of the things I fight against is adults ignoring college students," he said. "We want the students to be the servers. We don't want to be a church project."
"We want the students to sit down
The cafe, which will be in the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1101 Vermont St., will be sponsored by the Canterbury House and through a $500 grant from the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas, Alford said.
Jenny Baker, Lawrence senior and a volunteer for the cafe, said something as simple as a nice environment for breakfast and a choice of food could affect the cafe's guests.
"If they are helped and treated well, it could be a springboard to gaining empowerment, so they can do something else and get on track," she said.
Students interested in volunteering can contact Alford at the Canterbury House, 843-8202.
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