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Thursday, February 26, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Students will get nutritional facts
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
Next month, hall residents will be a fed a diet of information about nutrition, exercise and weight control, in addition to their usual helpings of salad or pizza sandwiches.
the food service department in the office of student housing plans to celebrate March, National Nutrition Month, by inviting speakers to talk about health problems and by distributing handouts at residence hall cafeterias.
Beginning March 2, the department will distribute flyers about dieting facts and fallacies. Also, residents will receive information on healthy eating and cafeteria food, said Peggy Smith, assistant director of food services.
"We find students' eating habits changing around March," Smith said. "From then till the end of the semester, students start thinking about wearing swim suits, and that's why the bar salad be more popular."
She said the activities were planned to provide residents with advice on eating habits at a time when they needed it most.
"This is a good time to counteract some of the changes that might be detrimental to their health."
Three nutrition experts have been invited to speak to residents on nutrition and weight problems.
On March 10 and 12, Ann Kohl, a dietitian for Student Health Services at Watkins Hospital, will speak to residents in Ellsworth and Oliver halls on weight control.
On March 23, Pat McSwegin, a professor of exercise physiology at Emporia State University, will speak at McColum Hall on exercise and nutrition. Marie Cross, associate professor of human development at the University of Kansas, will talk to residents at Lewis Hall about eating habits and how they relate to a person's mood.
Smith said the activities would give residents practical lessons in nutrition.
Students can learn about calories and effective weight control in a nutrition class, Smith said, but they are most receptive to advice on eating habits when they are given nutrition information just as they're getting ready to eat. Flyers will be distributed in the halls at mealtimes.
The activities are also part of a plan to encourage residents to be more positive of the food services department, Smith said.
Dr. ABENA BUSIA
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Bryn Mawr College
will lecture
Thursday, February 26, 4:30 p.m.
Jayhawk房, Kansas Union
on
"A Context for Black Women's Rebellious Voices in the Novel of the African Diaspora."
sponsored by
African & African-American Studies Center for Research in Black Leadership English Department
Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center Office of Minority Affairs Women's Studies
Panel held on international jobs
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Ronald Klassen travels around the world negotiating business deals. Cynthia Treaster is an advocate for Spanish-speaking migrant workers in Missouri. Jacob Kipp analyzes the Soviet military in a think tank.
Each of their careers requires expertise in international affairs
The three were among 11 people who shared their professional advice with students at an international careers conference yesterday afternoon in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor for international programs, said the conference was organized to stimulate interest in international study and provide information about careers.
"Today there is a greater awareness of the interdependence of global economies," he said. "There are increasing opportunities to work for firms that do business overseas."
Mike Priddy, Coffeyville senior,
said, "It gave broad insights into
what international business is all
about, from people who are in
the field. They gave good advice."
The conference was divided into three sessions, each focusing on a category of international careers: the private sector and profession.
Panel members described their careers and gave advice on how to prepare for job interviews and on what skills are most helpful for interpersonal careers.
The speakers frequently stressed the importance of foreign
language fluency and broadly based knowledge about the nations and cultures students would deal with in their careers.
"If you like diversity, you'll like international business," said Klassen, business manager of international operations for Ferro Corp. in Cleveland. "You have to know only the product but also the people using the product, including their culture, religion, geography."
Klassen said he spent 30 percent to 40 percent of his time traveling overseas.
Private sector jobs usually pay better than jobs in the public sector, Klassen said.
"But if our rewards are greater, the risks are, also," he said. "You can lose your job overnight."
Many international careers
don't require overseas travel. Treaster, project coordinator for Migrant Farm Workers Project/ Assistance Fund, Kansas City, Mo., helps migrant workers get federal assistance they might have missed because they don't speak English.
"Before our agency existed, the services didn't get to the migrant workers because of cultural and language barriers," she said.
Some international careers only require knowledge of another country, not interaction with its people. Kipp, senior analyst at the Fort Leavenworth Soviet army studies office, works with 15 people who gather and analyze information about the Soviet military.
"We act as a gadfly to stimulate discussion and debate," he said.
INTERNATIONAL CLUB Dance Party
HORS D'OEUVRES
B. Y.O.B.
MASTERS INN
6th & 10WA
Friday Feb. 27 1987
7:00 PM-1:30 AM
Tickets sold at 404 Blake & also at SUA Office, Kansas Union.
Members: $1.50 Non-Members: $2.00 At Door: $3.00
A WORD FROM "PYTHON"PISCOPO EX·WRESTLER ABOUT MILLER LITE
"DUH""
* TRANSLATION: A SUPERBLY BREWED, FINE TASTING PILSNER BEER