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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Jan. 24, 1986
Argentinean studies the U.S. press
Free speech vital to democracy
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
Expressing opinions about the government, writing letters to the editor or simply reading controversial books are some of the privileges people have just by living in the United States.
For Roxana. Morduchowicz, such privileges were non-existent during the eight years of military rule in her homeland of Argentina.
The elected Argentine government was overthrown in 1976 by a military junta, and freedom of expression ceased to exist, she said yesterday. When Argentina returned to democratic rule in 1983, Morduchowicz vowed to work to maintain the freedoms often taken for granted in the United States.
In keeping with that vow, Morduchowicz began a program to teach children the importance of freedom of expression using newspapers as learning tools.
Morduechowicz, a Fulbright Research Scholar and reporter for La Razon, a newspaper in Buenos Aires, is in the United States for three months to study how journalism is used in the classroom.
She lives in Lawrence and travels to cities across the United States, visiting universities to talk to professors, administrators and researchers. She also visits high schools and newspapers.
Morduchowicz has visited the Wichita Eagle-Beacon and the Kansas City Star, which both are among 700 newspapers nationally that participate in the Newspapers in Education program.
John Guenther, professor of curriculum and instruction, said the program was started in the United States during the 1950s at the University of Iowa to encourage students to read newspapers.
It is run by the American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation.
Guenther is the director of Kansas Newspapers in Education and an educational consultant to the Topека Capital-Journal. He also is one of 12 members on the American Newspaper Publishers Association committee for Newspapers in Education programs.
Guenther said the use of newspapers in the classroom helped fight illiteracy and allowed children to learn more about the world.
U. S. teachers in the program use newspapers as learning tools for grade school, junior high school and high school students. But the program in Buenos Aires is for children ages 10 to 12 years old, said Morduchowicz.
She said she made Lawrence her home base because the Fulbright Foundation considered the universities in the Midwest to be the best for
research in journalism.
Along with Newspapers in Education, the Buenos Aires program also published a children's magazine, Entre Todos, which means "between all of us," written by children from 150 public schools in Buenos Aires, she said.
The magazine is designed to stimulate children to express themselves, she said. It includes comic strips and interviews with celebrities and local officials.
"The children are the journalists," she said "They design and write everything in the magazine."
Morduchowicz earned a degree in literature from the University of Buenos Aires and also has a degree in journalism. She is working on her master's degree in education.
She began working for an underground newspaper in 1980 when Argentina still was under military rule. After Argentina became democratic again, Morduchowicz presented her ideas to the Argentine Ministry of Education and won a Fulbright research grant.
"We had a terrible military government from 1976 to 1983 where you couldn't say anything," she said. "Now that we have a democratic government, we want to teach children about freedom so we can maintain democracy for a long time."
She will return to Buenos Aires late
Roxana Morduchowicz
in March when school starts there
She said that the response in Bueno
Aires to the program was favorable.
"The children think its excellent," she said. "The parents love to have their children write and express themselves. Our goal is to have the children become readers and let them express themselves."
Asbestos still exposed in parts of Strong Hall
By Peggy Kramer
Staff writer
No action has been taken to dispose of exposed asbestos in Strong Hall since a student filed a report with facilities operations Nov. 14, the associate director of plant maintenance said yesterday
The exposed area is six to eight square inches and is in the southwest corner of the third floor.
Asbestos is an fibrous mineral used for fireproofing and electrical insulation that is thought to cause cancer.
Bob Porter, the associate director,
said that maintenance workers
already had completed 25 asbestos
projects in Strong Hall and that
he expected this area to be repaired
within two or three weeks.
Dennis Lane, associate professor of civil engineering, said that asbestos fibers could be ingested deeply into the lungs. The real hazard, is the concentration of fibers in the lungs which leads to small cancerous tumors
"A condition called fibrosis develops, which is like a bunch of spider webs in the lungs and can really mess up the system." Lane said.
Porter said a certain procedure was followed for reporting exposed
The student, who filed the report and asked to remain anonymous, said he had worked with asbestos and recognized the fibers in the insulation.
asbestos. A situation form is first filled out at facilities operations The form is used for notifying the facilities operations of a hazard.
A preliminary check is done and the project is filed on facilities operations list of priorities Before asbestos can be removed, it must be reported to the Kansas Environmental Health Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Facilities operations then must wait ten days after those agencies have been notified before beginning work, said Porter.
"There are six projects left in Strong Hall, and this particular area was one of the last on the priority list of 3 projects," he said.
The student said that encapsulation of the area would suffice since it posed no immediate danger. He said if the area was not disturbed, it wasn't particularly hazardous.
Porter said that encapsulation primarily was for a minor area and involved spraying the area with a sealer. For this size of an area, Porter said it would cost about $10 to $20 to repair, but the paperwork and preparation were time-consuming.
All the asbestos in Strong Hall probably will never be totally removed, Porter said.
"If there happens to be a con taminated area, the facilities operations will repair it," he said.
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