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Wednesday, November 13, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Parental support
Jana Johnson holds up her 3-year-old daughter, Amy, for a closer look at "Uncle" Jimmy Green, as Andrew McGowan, 4, watches from below. The children were walking on campus yesterday afternoon with their mothers.
Ethics center will be first to have international focus
An anonymous donation of $100,000, along with other contributions from private sources, will make possible the creation of the International Center for Ethics in Business at KU.
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
"We do know who gave the money, and it may become public later," said Richard DeGeorge, a professor of philosophy who will be co-director of the center.
He said that some donors did not like publicity because they did not want to be asked for more money.
DeGeorge, who is also a courtesy professor of business, said the center still was seeking private finance expertise.
"KU is not financing any new centers to my knowledge," he said. "That's why we are getting independent funding."
"I am excited that we have people doing this," Baum said.
Joe Bauman, dean of business administration, said the center was officially approved Oct. 25 by the academic affairs office.
The center will help students become more aware of business ethics, he said.
DeGeorge, who will direct the center with Joe Reitz, professor of business, said the center would have three goals:
- to serve Kansas:
to provide research for ethical questions in business;
to become the first center for ethics with an inter-
national focus
DeGeorge said that instead of having an international focus, other centers in the United States are concerned with regional activities.
Business does not occur just within a country's own borders; it involves more than one country, he said.
"Business is really international in its scope," DeGeorge said. "It's difficult to ignore the international
Sponsored by the School of Business and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the center will draw on the expertise of the faculty from programs in English as Asia and the Latin American programs, he said.
The center was expected to start this year, but because financing has been slow, it will probably take a while.
He said it was difficult to get donations during a recession.
“It’s hard to say when it is going to start, ‘DeGearon said. “We are still hoping we will be able to start.”
DeGeorge said the center had been in a planning stage for three years.
KU, junior high partnerships cross international boundaries
The center will first concentrate on programs for faculty members before directly involving students, he said.
The center also will organize seminars and sponsor conferences to enhance research.
By William Ramsey Kansan staff writer
Waimun Chow stood smiling in front of the class as a seventh-grader explained about the flag of Malaysia, Chow's native country.
Chow, Sabah, Malaysia, freshman, then read aloud a paragraph written in Malay about her country on the southeastern tio of Asia.
"I was nervous," Chow said after the short presentation at South Junior High School, 2734 Louisiana St.
"But we can learn something from them, and they can learn something from us," she said.
"It helps you learn about other people's countries," Bynum said.
Matt Bynum, South student,
worked with another classmate
and Chow in the four meetings
conducted since Oct.15.
International students at the University of Kansas were paired with South students through KU's Applied English Center.
Sarah Pike, a seventh-grade teacher, helped her students prepare presentations about the fortress they had been paired with.
When the group of 11 KU students arrived and the oral reports began, Pike monitored the process.
"You are being a great audience," she told the excited class of 19. "You also did a good job on your posters."
"It makes the information that is in a textbook come alive," Pike said.
Their KU partners are from seven different countries, and the morning's speeches ranged from bans on alcohol holidays to social life in Hong Kong.
At first, the South students were shy and had to fight language barriers, she said. But by their fourth
meeting yesterday, the class was ready for their presentations.
"They wouldn't have missed this for the world." Pike said.
Barbara Hermann, language specialist at the Applied English Center, organized the meetings
After submitting a proposal and receiving a small grant from the National Association of Student Affairs, Hermann took foreign students last spring to Central Junior High, 1400 Massachusetts St., in a similar program.
This semester is an extension of that program, she said.
Pike's class will come to KU for a tour next week, and the KU students will make a traditional dinner from their countries in the seventh-graders homes tomorrow, Hermann said.
"They opened up their homes and are allowing the students to come in," she said.
Language labs offer some Spanish television shows, but student seeks more news from Latin America
By Rochelle Olson Kansan staff writer
Jose Urdaneta spent the first 11 years of his life in Venezuela moving to the
And although Urdaneta, Topeka senior, visits the South American country frequently, he would like to have access to more news from his homeland.
Univision, a Spanish language cable channel that some KU students are trying to bring to Lawrence, could give Urdaneta 'at opportunity,' he said.
The newcasts on the channel are directed toward the Hispanic community and are about activities in Latin America, Urdaneta said.
"It keeps me in touch," he said.
Urdanaa said he planned to submit a petition in December to Sunflower Cablevision to try to persuade them to carry the Spanish-language channel in Lawrence.
Jose Urdaneta, Topeka senior, has collected about 400 signatures for a petition that he will submit to Sunflower Cablevision requesting that the company carry Univision, a Spanish language channel.
The channel is available in Topeka, he
said.
Univision broadcasts everything from soap operas variety shows from Spanish
The foreign language lab in Wescoe Hall offers some lessons in Spanish, but Urdana-ta is better.
"I want something I can sit down in my
living room and watch," he said
Urdaneta has collected about 400 signatures on petitions that he circulated among friends and Spanish classes.
He said many people in the KU community had expressed interest in the channel.
faculty in Latin American Studies and other classives have been supportive, he said.
Urdaneta said he did not know what he would do if Sunflower chose not to pick up the seeds.
"I've been hoping so much that this time they would listen," he said.
But Dennis Knipfer, general manager of Sunflower Cablevision, said that space on the cable channel traditionally had been a problem.
Members of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization and students and
The station broadcasts 25 channels, and many subscribers' cable boxes do not have them.
Sunflower offers limited Spanish pro-
gramming on Channel 32 Kruger said.
Knipfei safo he had not received many requests for Univision.
But if he does receive petitions, he said he would look at them.
"What that tells me is that there is an interest." Knipfer said.
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