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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, April
Legislative Briefs
Retirement pay wait could be shortened
TOPEKA - On its final day of the regular legislative session, the Senate approved Saturday a bill that would change the time requirements for faculty to receive retirement annuities.
Unclassified employees would have to wait one year to participate in the Board of Regents retirement program instead of the present two years.
Unclassified employees include faculty, administrative staff and research assistants.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said that the Regents program had one of the longest time requirements and that the one-year provision was a compromise.
The House Ways and Means Committee will probably have hearings on the measure when it meets after a 10-day recess.
Senate OKs aid bill
TOPEKA—Education students may no longer be denied scholarship money in their fifth year if Gov. John Carlin signs a coming bill.
The Kansas Senate on Saturday
gave unanimous approval to a bill that would allow state scholarships to be awarded for an extra two semesters to students enrolled in an educational program of five years.
Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education, said education students could receive a state scholarship for only four years because they reached graduate student status in their fifth year.
The bill would definitely benefit the education students, he said, because students now miss out on a substantial amount of money once they enter their fifth year.
A bill that would bring Washburn University into the Board of Regents system probably won't be brought up this legislative session, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.-Lawrence, said yesterday.
Washburn bill put off
The bill now before the House includes Washburn in the higher education system as of July 1988, a measure that would generate a $600,000 increase in state financing. The measure also would gradually withdraw Washburn from its present form of finance. The college is financed by local property taxes.
Students demonstrate native arts
By Debra West
Staff writer
The 34th Annual International Day Festival of Nations on Saturday was full of fun and laughter as students presented traditional entertainments from their countries.
The festival started at noon with exhibition booths in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The booths included native costumes, art work and various other objects from different countries. Most booths also included a slide show.
Prizes were given for the best booths. Free China took third place. Latin America took second and Japan was judged to have the best booth.
On Campus
The KU women's soccer club will practice at 5 p.m. today at the field at 23rd and Iowa streets.
The KU Kempo Karate Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in the Multipurpose Room of Robinson Center.
The Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction will meet at 8 p.m. today in the Regional Room of the Kansas Union.
A dinner was served in the Union at 5:30 p.m. The dinner included chicken curry from Bangladesh and India, roast lamb from Saudi Arabia, rice from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, tabula from Lebanon, Malaysian vegetables, baklava from Greece and Turkey and kamer el din from Syria.
Paul Trambarulo, Lawrence senior, said Saturday, "It was great. I'd never ate most of those dishes before, but they were very good."
A culture show began at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom. It started with a slide show of International Club activities from the 1985-86 school year. Laughter and cheers rang out as about 200 students recognized
themselfs and their friends caught in unsuspecting poses.
After this informal beginning, many students presented music and dances from their homelands.
The Swedish students began their performance with a story about a village bewitched by music.
The story told of a stranger who entered a village and waited until everyone had gathered around him. Then he began to play the violin and the villagers started to dance uncontrollably.
The music possessed them, and as it continued they danced off into the hills never to be seen again.
The last thing the man saw of the visitor was his tail hanging from beneath his coat.
The stranger then departed, leaving only one deaf man in the village.
Cathie Matson, Raytown. Mo
graduate student, played the koto, a
Japanese musical instrument.
"I don't know of anyone else in the state that can play this instrument," she said. "The only place you can buy one is in Japan, and most Japanese families that move here don't bring them along because they're so big.
Matson said she went to Japan as an exchange student four years ago and learned how to play the koto there. The instrument is similar to a harp, which she already knew how to play.
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