University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 19, 1988
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School of Business goes international
Bv Davana Yochim
Kansan staff writer
The KU School of Business has incorporated more international business courses into its curriculum as the importance of world trade has grown.
David Shulenberger, associate dean for academic affairs at the school, said that the world was becoming more economically open, creating a need for more courses in international business.
"We don't have any choice," Shulenberger said. "International trade directly affects about 20 percent of commerce. This figure has grown from 4 or 5 percent from 25 years ago."
Shulenberger said that for the past five years, the business school faculty had incorporated international topics into their courses.
"I think that a business school decides what market it wishes to secure and then designs a curriculum to make students a demand in that market," he said.
The school currently teaches such subjects as exchange rates, the operation of international finance markets, international marketing and ethical issues in the trade, Shulenberger said.
Two years ago, the faculty adopted new requirements for all undergraduate business majors, he said.
Pre-business majors are required to take either four semesters of a foreign language, four semesters of studies or two semestres of each.
"We instituted that requirement to make sure all our students have international exposure. A number of employers think that is a definite
plus." Shulenberger said.
John Garland, associate professor of business, said the move toward increasing the international content of the school's curriculum was a continuing process.
"The key is that the international environment is changing so rapidly that five years from now, a country's progress going to be different," Garland said.
"We long ago recognized the need to internationalize, but we cannot train professors overnight. It's takes an ongoing commitment."
Dave Dostal, Shawnee senior majoring in business, said that advanced technology made it easier to build a profitable business with other countries.
"If you to get a job with a big international conglomerate, taking international business courses would only be beneficial," he said. "Any business class you're in, they mention something about foreign involvement."
The school is also taking a role in developing international programs and participating in international conferences.
The school is one of the sponsors of the International Careers Conference on Wednesday in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium.
Luis Ramierez, Prairie Village resident, speaks about his arrest by the Pinochet government in 1975.
Eiichi Shimizu, an international business executive from Tokyo, will speak at the conference. Panels of KU alumni will make presentations on careers in the public and private sector.
The school is also involved in a project with the Center for International Programs, the area studies programs and the foreign language departments.
Prisoner of Pinochet speaks
Ex-captive says U.S. should stay out of Chile, Latin America
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
The United States should stay out of Latin American affairs and stop its support for the military government of Chile, a former prisoner of the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet said yesterday.
Mark Porter/KANSAN
The man, Luis Ramierez, a Prairie Village electrical engineer since 1976, spoke to about 60 people at the KU Latin American Solidarity rice and beans dinner last night.
"The North American solution never works in Latin American countries," he said. "The only thing I would expect from the American government would be to leave us alone and let us solve the problem for ourselves."
Ramirez showed his audience "By Reason or Force," a 1983 documentary about Pinochet's military dictatorship by John Dinges, a former Newsweek correspondent in Chile.
Ramirez was a school teacher and union leader in Santiago, Chile. He was taken from his classroom by Pinochet's secret police and held prisoner for a year in 1975, two years after the bloody coup that overthrew former President Salvador Allende.
Ramierzez said he was held and tortured for 60 days. Charges never were filed. After a year, Ramierzez said, he was released with 19 others because of intervention by the U.S. government.
Ramiezel said he saw little hope for a peaceful overthrow of the Pinochet regime, at least for another five years.
year in Chile. The 1800 constitution called for a popular vote before Feb. 11, 1898. The people will decide whether Pinochet should have eight more years in office.
Ramiezel said that although Pinochet had only about 8 to 12 percent popular support, he would probably win the plebiscite vote.
This is an important political
The results of the Chilean vote will depend largely on who wins the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, Ramirez said. If there is another Republican administration, Pinochet probably will be in
"Pinochet has been working hard for an election where he will be the winner." Ramirez said
power for eight more years.
Ramirez attributed many of Chile's current economic problems to its huge foreign debt. In the last 10 years, Pinchet has taken $24.7 billion in foreign aid and loans, and the country now owes $31 billion to foreign banks, he said.
Maximum sentence given to Kemp in murder case
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
Carl L. Kemp received the maximum sentence yesterday for the second-degree murder of his wife, Judy.
Douglas County District Court Judge Ralph M. King sentenced Kemp to 15 years to life imprisonment for the Sept. 3 murder.
"I've found from the testimony I've heard that you are in fact dangerous," King said in explaining his decision to give the maximum sentence.
A jury of seven men and five women found Kemp guilty on Jan. 22 of second-degree murder.
Kemp, with his hands clasped tightly, stood at a podium in the center of the courtroom while King read the sentence. He nodded when King explained his right to an appeal.
Judy Kemp's body was found in a homemade wooden box in a shed behind Carl Kemp's trailer on Sept. 9. Lawrence Police detectives became suspicious when Kemp called a sheriff's dispatcher to inquire about burial insurance.
During the week-long trial in January, Kemp's attorney, Carl Fleml, argued that Carl Kemp was drunk on Sept. 3 and couldn't remember the events that led to his wife's death.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory argued that Kemp beat his wife to death.
Before sentencing, Fleming asked King to defer sentencing until a psychiatric evaluation of Kemp was completed. Fleming said that Kemp had multiple personalities.
"That's been something that's troubled me since this thing started." Fleming said.
He said that testimony had shown Kemp was a calm, loving man until he began drinking. Then, Fleming said, he became a violent, dangerous man.
Flory argued that alcoholism cannot excuse what he called the violent, antisocial behavior of Kemp.
"There is absolutely no excuse, justification, or mitigation for the brutal acts that were perpetrated on
Flory said that even though Kemp had admitted he was an alcoholic prone to violent behavior, he had never attempted to get help or treatment. He said that if Kemp needed psychiatric care, it would be available in prison.
After the sentencing, Fleming said that no motion for a new trial had been filed because of the possibility that a first-degree murder conviction would be returned in a new trial.
Fleming said that Kemp would consider an appeal.
Olympic spirit stands test of time
KU course offers look at competitor
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
Competitive spirit — it's one element of the ancient Olympic Games that still exists in the modern games, where balloons, official beer sponsors and broadcasting rights are also part of the spectacle.
Competition existed in many aspects of Greek culture, said Stanley Lombardo, chairman of the classics department. Lombardo is teaching a course this semester called Athletics and the Olympic Games.
The course is offered this semester because 1968 is an Olympiad year. Lombardo also taught the course at the University of Kansas in 1984. He previously taught it at Miami University of Ohio and has lectured and written about the Olympics.
Lombardo said that studying Olympic history allowed students to understand how the Greeks were shaped by their environment, which means "spirit of excellence."
"The athletics become a vehicle to teach Greek culture," he said.
Jody Brown, Wichita junior, said
the courses through the UNAYKKU Connec-
tion.
"It sounded really interesting and different," Brown said.
She said that the class was especially enjoyable because of the 15th Winter Olympics taking place in Calgary, Canada, this month.
Lombardo's 68 students learned first about Greek values and ideals. The second part of the course emphasizes the athletic events themselves. The final part will deal with the modern games, which began in 1896. The first winter games were in 1924.
This week, Lombardo is lecturing and showing slides about ancient pentathlon events such as the long jump.
Tuesday, Lombardio discussed how long jumpers used hand-held weights called "halteres" when they competed. It is not known why these weights were used. Perhaps the centrifugal force the weights created when they were swung enabled the athletes to jump farther or make cleaner landings in the "skamma" or pit. he said.
in ancient Greece, Lombardo said. Preparation for the Olympics was rationalized as war training and was a universal part of education.
"I think they would have done it even if they never went to war," Lombardo said.
Delisa Dresws, Dodge City junior,
said she enjoyed the course in part
because she had been involved in
sports.
"I was interested in the switch between ancient athletics and modern athletics," Drewes said.
The ancient Greek Olympics began in 776 B.C. and were held every four years until they were banned by the Christian emperor Theodosius in the late fourth century.
Lombardo said the ancient games were a mediation between peace and war, barbarism and civilization, and raw physical energy and the rituals of civilization.
Competition was also a part of art and politics in ancient Greece, Lombardo said.
The Greek culture never merely put on a play; it always had to be a competition, he said.
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