University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 28, 1988
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Support group available New advising helps minority students adjust
By Kathleen Faddis
The isolation and homesickness felt by most new students at a university is usually heightened for foreign and minority students, according to many such students and those involved in counseling them.
Latanya Hubbard, Wichita junior,
said that minority students often felt
isolated and left out of the main-
stream of student life.
And that can lead to students dropping out or transferring to other schools.
A network of support is now available to members of both groups through peer advising programs sponsored by the University of Kansas's office of minority affairs and office of foreign student services.
Robbie Steward, assistant professor of counseling psychology, said that peer counseling programs could be an important alternative to help those minority students who would use them.
Steward is part of a minority committee in the school of Education.
Norma Miller, graduate assistant in the minority affairs office, directs its three-year-old program. Four student advisers in the minority affairs
office are working with about 40 student participants.
Carmena Starks, Omaha, Neb., third-year law student and an adviser for the minority affairs program, said new minority students found it harder to adjust in a predominantly white environment.
"If they had gone to a black college, they would also be facing traditional freshman problems, but they would be facing them with everyone else," said Starks, who has worked with about 10 minority students since September.
Starks, who went to Iowa State University for her undergraduate work after growing up in a black community, said she had to learn to cope with an environment similar to the one at the University of Kansas.
But Stark said that she was glad she could use that experience to advise others. "The reward is being given the opportunity to pass on what I learned," she said.
Dan Copeland, graduate assistant,
directs the program for foreign students that started this spring. Eight students are advising 33 participants.
support. In 1977, about 1,350 foreign students were enrolled at KU. In 1987, about 1,730 foreign students were enrolled.
With steadily increasing foreign student enrollment, Copeland said two staff people could not reach all the students who might need extra
Foreign students can gain networks of friends through foreign student associations, but they have problems going beyond their own nationality groups, Copeland said.
"Some of them have complained that they are not meeting enough Americans," Komp said. Unfortunately, there are not enough U.S. families for the students who would like a host family.
U. S. students often have the same problem. "It is hard for many Americans to go beyond initial friendliness and become more students into their daily lives," he said.
Karen Komp, Lawrence sophmore, is a peer adviser with the foreign student services office. Komp, an anthropology major, was born in England but has lived in the United States with her husband for seven years.
Copeland said that students must be subtle in trying to counsel foreign students. Because of cultural differences, foreign students often will not take personal problems to a stranger.
Award-winning architecture teacher helps students build creative designs
By Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
Bill Rogers bustly planes fine wood silvers from the triangular leg of his emerging creation in the basement of Marvin Hall.
Rogers, Lincoln, Neb., senior,
meticulously places the three sides
of the desk in the same position
in pedestal desk. He plans to attach a
marble desk top next week.
"The problem with many architects and interior designers is that they just don't realize how something is constructed," said Rogers, who briefly stopped his work to fit the three sides of the leg together. "They are more worried about it than they should rather than how it fits together."
Rogers and 17 other students are finishing indoor projects, which range from lamps to metal sculptures, for Building Technology Practicum, a course taught by Dan Rockill.
Rockhill, associate professor of architecture and urban design, recently won an American Institute of Architects Education Honors award for innovative instruction in a professional degree curriculum.
"It's not just bricklaying," said Rockhill, who has been teaching three different building technology courses for six years. "It's integration of design and technology and that's hard to do."
"Architects are frequently accused of designing things that are hard to build." Rockhill said. "My interest is to help students bring their design to some kind of fruition."
Dennis Domer, associate dean of architecture and urban design, was one of the judges for the AIA contest at the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture convention. Rockhill was one of 80 entrants and received one of four national awards presented March 15 in Miami. Fla.
"Professor Rockhill's course is a course that deals with the craft of building," Domer said. "It is both practical in approach and theoretically interesting in design. Professor Rockhill is making a magnificent contribution and we're proud of him."
Every semester, students in Rockhill's class complete a small project, such as a lamp, and a larger project, such as a piece of
furniture, in the basement of Marvin Hall.
The students are also asked to design and build a project in the building yard behind Marvin Hall, Rockhill said. Outdoor projects have included vaults, brick arches, fireplaces, columns and tile flues.
Students usually scrougn for materials from places like area salvage yards, building sites and a local saw mill, Rockhill said.
Rogers said that students were exposed to many different applications of building materials.
"You do a lot of experimenting," he said. "It covers the majority of things you'd find in the real world."
Deirdre Jacobs, Overland Park senior, an interior design student who is completing a light sculpture constructed of sandblasted glass and a piece of limestone, said that interior designers needed Rockhill's course to gain an understanding of how things were constructed.
"I wanted to learn about furniture design but I wanted to learn about the construction of interior structures as well," Jacobs said.
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