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Monday, March 6, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Samba set
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
Musicians from "Traditional Music Society," *Bird Fleming, Rubens Gomes and Pat Conway*, play a samba at Lawrence's Brazilian carnival. The event took place Saturday at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Next fall, students interested in the Spanish language and Hispanic and Latin-American cultures will have an opportunity to learn more about them by living on the fourth floor of McCollum Hall.
By Eduardo A. Molina
Kansan staff writer
This semester, the floor had been designated as a Spanish-speaking floor. But the floor has not been as successful as housing officials had hoped.
McCollum Spanish floor to change focus
To broaden the appeal of the program, the department of student housing will shift the focus from Spanish language to Hispanic and Latin-American cultures.
Of the 70 native and non-native Spanish speakers living on the floor, about 10 are active participants in the program, said Steven Shimmik, Albuquerque, N.M., senior and floor resident assistant.
Shinnick said the change was an effort to attract more students to the floor who didn't speak Spanish but who were interested in Hispanic and Latin-American cultures.
Shinnick said that an advertisement about
"...students won't need to be proficient in the language but interested in the culture."
Steven Shinnick floor resident assistant
the program may have scared some students away.
"They thought this floor would be an isolated, Spanish-speaking community," he said. "Next year, students won't need to be proficient in the language but just interested in the culture."
Shinnick said the change also could attract
more native Spanish speakers to live on the floor.
"Native Spanish speakers didn't come to this floor because they were more interested in learning English than speaking Spanish," he said. "With a more cultural focus, native Spanish speakers can live here and share part of their cultures with Americans without speaking Spanish all the time." Gabriela Godoy-Manchini, Asuncion, Paraguay, junior and floor resident assistant, said the focus on cultures could motivate more students to live on the floor.
"We had a good beginning last semester," she said. "We decided to speak Spanish during some days or organize cultural activities. But not all students at the floor were involved in these activities, and we didn't continue with it."
Some residents of the floor said that advertising what students could learn by living on the floor would make more people want to live there.
Shinick said that more information about the floor would be sent to students with next year's contract.
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The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Department of Music and Dance presents the 18th Annual
THURSDAY MARCH 2 Vocalist Dianne Reeves The KU Jazz Singers
FRIDAY
MARCH 3
Mike Stern Trio
Mike Stern, guitar
Jeff Andrews, bass
Dave Weckl, drums
The Joe Lovano Quartet
Joe Lovano, saxophone
Tim Hagans, trumpet
Anthony Cox, bass
Carmen Castaldi, drums
KU Jazz Combo I
SATURDAY
MARCH 4
Louie Bellson
KU Jazz Ensemble I
University of
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Jazz Band I
festival March 2-4,1995 Lied Center Concerts nightly at 7:30 p.m.
Aerobics
One fee includes:
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