Friday, March 28, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Roommates say cultures don't clash
By Debra West
Staff writer
Their room — decorated with pictures and posters to make it feel like home — doesn't reflect that the residents come from cultures thousands of miles apart.
Tammy Stude/KANSAN
Mary Ann Mustata, Lima, Peru,
freshman, and Leigh Anist Stout,
Garden City freshman, have been
roommates since August and have
found some surprising differences
and similarities in their lifestyles.
Leigh Anne Stout, Garden City freshman, and Mary Ann Mustata, Lima, Peru, freshman, share a room in Watkins Scholarship Hall. The two roommates said they got along great despite differences in their cultural backgrounds.
Mustata said people in Peru rarely ate Mexican food.
Some of the differences, Mustata said, include food and the way they treat books.
She also runs into trouble when she tries to cook Peyruvian meals for her (Rhoda)
"I ate one taco in my life before I came here," she said. "It seems like Americans eat them three times a week."
"I can't get the right ingredients," she said. "Everything is different. Like lemons — in Peru they are very tiny and very tart. They aren't like the ones you get here."
Other fruits here are different from fruits in Peru.
"You only get one kind of banana here. I have five different kinds in my back yard. There are big ones, tiny ones. Some are red, some you have to cook. And papayas — I laugh they're witty. They are so small. They're witty."
Mustata also has trouble highlighting her books.
"In Peru you have plastic covers on all of your books and notebooks and keep them very neat. I've only seen a highlighter once. I just can't do it."
Stout, on the other hand, was surprised at some of the similarities in their lifestyles.
Stout said she thought Mustaata wouldn't speak English very well and would listen to music with Spanish lyrics. Instead, Mustaata speaks without an accent and her favorite group is the Police.
Stout's idea of Peru is always changing.
"Our ideas of a jungle are totally different," she said. "Mary Ann showed me a picture and said, 'This
is the jungle.' It was a wide, paved road with trees on both sides. It didn't have all the vines and heavy bushes I imagined."
Others who live with foreign students find they have the same misconceptions. Their roommates are really much like they are.
Michelle Wilson, Maple Hill freshman, lives in Douthart Scholarship Hall with Ioma Carvalho, Rio de
Janeiro. Brazil, junior.
When she was assigned to a room with Carvalho, Wilson said, she didn't know what to expect from a foreign roommate.
After Wilson met Carvalho, her fears evaporated.
"She's really neat," Wilson said.
"She's taught me a lot about Brazil. We don't have any big differences."
Council OKs faculty conduct procedures
The University Council unanimously passed a series of amendments concerning faculty disciplinary procedures yesterday.
Staff writer
By Lori Poisson
said the measures would be forwarded to Chancellor Gene A. Budg, who would review the procedures before deciding whether they should be carried out.
Arno Knapper, chairman of the University Council, said the Board of Regents had a policy requiring the administrators of each Regents institution to begin a program for faculty discipline.
The procedures had been under consideration by the Senate Executive Committee, which earlier approved the amendments.
Budig will probably agree with the council's amendments and implement them, Shapiro said.
"But he doesn't have to agree with us," he said. "He could throw them out and establish his own procedures."
The amendments clarify several items in the code, Shaniro said.
The measures amend the University Senate Rules and Regulations Concerning Academic Work and Its Evaluation, as well as the Faculty
Faculty misconduct is divided into two different types: proscribed, which is minor misconduct, and academic, which is serious misconduct that usually requires long investigations.
Code of Conduct section in the Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff.
Sid Shapiro, chairman of SenEx,
But the Legislature continues to balk at the idea of casting adrift disadvantaged Kansans -- even
though they generally are transient, poor and have little impact in the voting booth.
For three consecutive years, Gov. John Carlin has proposed eliminating transitional general assistance, which is welfare aid for those 3,000 Kansans, as a means of saving $6.9 million.
Senate decides to continue welfare aid to handicapped
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate yesterday passed and sent to the governor a bill which protects 3,000 handcapped and mentally ill Kansans from losing their welfare checks. The bill passed 40-0.
The Associated Press
■ Designate deer, elk, antelope and wild turkey as game for the purpose of hunting licenses and allow those 14 years and older to buy a big game permit. Hunters would have to wear orange covering 100 square inches on their front and back and an orange hat or face a fine of $25.
The House restored the money to the welfare program and the Senate affirmed the decision. It now will be signed into law or vetoed by Carlin. Also clearing the Senate were proposals to:
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Agency hires firm to study area blocks
By Juli Warren
The Urban Renewal Agency took a recent court decision to heart yesterday and entered into a contract to do a downtown slum and blight study.
Work is set to begin Monday, the project manager for the study said. District Court Judge James Paddock ruled last week that the agency had exclusive power to contract for the study.
The agency stuck to its own recommendation and chose Herrick, Feinstein, an Overland Park firm, to do the study for $16,000.
Characteristics in determining shum and blight are building conditions, streets and lots, unsafe conditions, site improvements, ownership, taxes, land uses, endangered life or property and economic obsolesence, and perhaps land title.
Agency members recommended in February that the city commission here Herrick, Feinstein to do the study, but Faddock ruled that the action was void because one member was inelegible to serve.
Tim Deginger, an agency member, moved to Jefferson County four days before the agency voted, which made him ineligible, the judge said.
"I think there is every reason to believe the block meets the statutory definition of slum and blight," he said as he looked out of City Hall toward the area.
Eric Straus, project manager and an associate professor of architecture, said after the meeting that the first work on Monday would be to gather data.
Degginger resigned March 1, and the City Commission has not chosen a replacement for him.
Strauss said the property of a block must meet most of the slum and blight standards to be declared as such.
An example of economic obsolescence, he said, might be a history of vacancies.
It would not be necessary to contact owners of the property, he said, because only exterior decay and interior decay on public spaces would be considered.
The area to be studied is between Sixth and Seventh streets from Kentucky Street to the alley just west of New Hampshire Street.
Property owners in the area had mixed reactions to the go-ahead for the study.
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