UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, May 1.1995
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Harassment a problem abroad
By Ileana Perez-Burgos Special to the Kansan
Nicky David, Cucamanga, Calif., senior, and two friends were waiting for the bus after watching a movie in Besancon, France, when two cars slowed down in front of them. One stopped half a block away, and before the group knew it, a man was masturbating in front of them.
David yelled to her friends to leave and began dragging them to the central bus stop.
David's experience is not unusual. Mary Elizabeth Debicki, director of Study Abroad, said more students in France have complained of harassment this year than ever before. About half of the 21 students in France reported harassment incidents, ranging from a professor using offensive language in class to catcalls and being followed on the street.
"We need to encourage students to look at the cultural differences more than we've ever done before," she said.
Debicki said some students were not prepared for certain cultural differences and as a result were not
taking necessary precautions.
"Students studying in France are not used to men following them on the street and speaking to them and flirting with them," she said. "They're not equipped to deal with this. They think the advances are far more dangerous than the person giving the advances."
Students' concerns were serious enough that program assistant Laura Leonard traveled to France in December to talk to the students about their security worries. Study Abroad also revised the orientation information in order to better prepare those students leaving in September.
"France is not Disneyland or a safer place because violent crime is lower," Leonard said. "We want students to have realistic expectations."
Standing in front of students at their first study abroad orientation on Saturday, Leonard suggested using the buddy system.
"We don't recommend that you stand alone in a phone booth at 3 o'clock in the morning to make up for the time difference between the U.S. and where you are," she said.
"If you're going to be there, drag somebody out of bed to be there with you."
Leonard said the group leaving in September was better prepared to deal with harassment and crime, in part because of suggestions from the students in France now.
A crime and safety section was added to the France orientation packet. Precautions were included in the housing and transportation information.
However, the students never mentioned harassment or asked questions about it. Leonard said that at this point, students were concerned with the things that were going to be new — not with situations they also worry about in the United States.
"They don't often think that perhaps harassment will take a different form in another country," Leonard said.
She said that students who weren't comfortable with the language might feel threatened by someone's tone and not know how to respond.
"Pay attention to your personal security because if you don't, nobody will," she said.
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By Robert Allen
Kanean staff writer
Job hunting on the Internet has been made easier for KU students, and they don't even need e-mail accounts.
The University Placement Center in the Burge Union has collected various job-hunting sites on the World Wide Web and put them together into one, easily accessible source.
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Mike Heuring, assistant director of the center, spends hours every week surfing the 'net and looking for more job information sites to add to KUfacts, a campus-wide information system.
"I want people to know that our office has put this together and linked all the sites for them," he said. "It already exists on this campus."
To find this wealth of career infor-
After entering KUfacts, select Departmental Information from the main menu. Next, select University Placement Center (UPC). Included in the center's information are places to find jobs and job search information on-line.
"Whenever I show this stuff to students, they go nuts," Heuring said. "Once they realize this exists, it opens a world to them."
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mation, students can use either their home computers and modems or use the computer center's equipment. KUfacts can be accessed through a web browser such as Netscape or Mosaic, both of which are available at the computer center. It also can be accessed through an e-mail account by typing 'KUfacts' at the prompt.
“It’s a lot more convenient because I've also looked through the papers,” she said. “The process is a lot easier on the computers because it's all there in front of you.”
Michelle Stewart, Lenexa senior, said she preferred the ease of computer searching to old methods.
Heuring said that employers were advertising on the Internet more frequently.
"Employers are saying, 'Why do we need to spend so much money on recruitment when employees can come to us?" he said. "We've seen a drop in the number of recruiters that come to campus. You can reach millions of people with one ad."
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