University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 11, 1991
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KU accommodates students pursuing diverse languages
The world of language is broadening.
By Jennifer Bach
Kansan staff writer
Students nationwide and at the University of Kansas no longer are learning only traditional languages such as French, German and Spanish.
Haitian-Creole, an African language, and Japanese are two of many non-traditional languages that have grown to be the most popular among college students.
KU is one of only 11 universities in the United States that offer Haitian-eng
Haitian-Creole has been taught at KU since 1978, said Bryant Freeman, professor of African studies and French.
But student interest in the language has increased significantly since then. When Freeman began teaching Haitian-Creole at KU, only eight students were enrolled in his class. Now there are 21.
"There are millions of Haitians in the United States," he said. "The U.S. government wants to hire people who know Haitian-Croole."
He said Haitian-Creole was not a difficult language to learn.
"The grammar is easy," he said.
"With Japanese, you have to study so
Haitian-Creole and Japanese are among many non-traditional languages offered at KU.
long before you can use it."
Robert Christensen, Ottawa sophome,
is taking his four semester in Haiti-Creole at KU.
He said he would encourage students to take more non-traditional languages such as Japanese.
"If you ever want to work with that language, then you have quite an opportunity," he said.
Maggie Childs, professor of Japanese, said KU was an early bird among universities in teaching Japanese.
"We are experiencing more growth," she said. "The change is becoming nationwide, and it is even being taught in high schools."
tures, Childs said. Now, the U.S. focus has widened.
For a long time, the United States focused on European affairs, so students studied those languages and cul-
"Japan is in the news all the time now," she said. "It used to take creativity to think of taking an Asian language, but not anymore."
Although some students learn nontraditional languages for the monetary reward, Childs said, many student teachers are Japanese language and culture.
The benefits of learning a non-traditional language are great, Childssaid.
"I think it makes you stand out in a crowd," she said.
"It's due to an interest in cultural diversity," she said. "It's only natural that people should want to experience other cultures and languages."
But Jewers said she was not worried that traditional languages would be forgotten.
It can take five years to learn Japanese or another non-traditional language fluently, whereas it may only require a couple of additional one such as Spanish, she said.
Caroline Jewers, assistant professor of French, said she was not surprised that student interest in non-traditional languages was growing.
"Two languages can co-exist," she said. "I'm sure there will always be an interest in European languages."
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Footage from theater security camera could clear 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' star
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — "Pee-wee's Playhouse" star Paul Reubens' publicists say a security camera in the adult theater where the actor was arrested made a video tape that could help his defense against indecent exposure charges.
The time-coded videotape shows Reubens in a Sarasota, Fla., theater lobby at a time when arresting officers testified that he was masturbating inside the auditorium. Reubens' Los Angeles publicity firm, Bender, Goldman & Heiber said Wednesday.
Reubens' attorneys showed the tape to prosecutors at a pre-trial
meeting Monday, the publicists' statement said.
Lt. William Stookey, representative for the Sarasota County sheriff's department, said he couldn't say whether the tape would help exonerate Reubens.
"The time element, we don't know how accurate that is. It's something the court's going to have to determine. It in the hands of the prosecutorial side." he said.
Neither Assistant State Attorney Mark Maynard nor rebuts 'attorney, Dan Dannheiser, returned messages yesterday morning.
Reubens, 38, was arrested July 26
by an undercover officer. The actor, who grew up in Sarasota but lives in Studio City, Calif., denied wrongdoing.
Reubens and his lawyers "are hopeful that an amicable resolution of this case will be reached before public disclosure (of the tape) is necessary," the statement said.
It also said that defense attorneys were reluctant to release the tape "out of concern for the privacy of other patrons also appearing in the tape."
The entertainer's publicist, Dana Freedman, would not elaborate on the statement.
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