Friday, December 1, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
New program to pair native international KU students
By Jason Elliott Special to the Kansan
The Office of International Student Services will start a program next semester to enhance the learning experience of both international and domestic students.
KU Cousins will pair undergraduate international students with domestic students. The domestic "cousins" will help the international students learn about the culture at the University of Kansas.
Office-employees hopes this program will help promote inter-cultural communication.
Moussa Sissoko, program coordinator for KU Cousins and the Office of International Student Services, said one problem at the University was that most students left without getting the full KU experience.
"The reason for the program is that it has been noticed at KU that international and domestic students do not interact much." Moussa said. "That in a way is detrimental to both groups because that is one of the aspects of the learning experience at KU."
The office is responding to Provost David Shulenburger's request that the University's departments encourage interaction between international and domestic students.
"We need to make sure that every undergraduate at KU has some type of international experience while at KU" he said. "We need to work on ways to facilitate this in any program."
The program lasts for one semester for each pair of students.
The office estimates that more than 100 cousins will participate next semester. The more international students enrolled, the more cousins there will be.
"We want to pair up international students with American students to try and get rid of the clicks that have now formed," Moussa said.
The groups will be required to participate in three events with all the cousins each semester.
Each pair will interact with each other through guided, scheduled telephone or in-person conversations.
The groups also will be encouraged to do activities outside of what is required.
Any KU student can become a cousin, including family members of international students.
For more information, pick up an application at the Office of International Student Services in 2 Strong Hall.
Edited by John Audlehelm
Police rush the front doors of Firstar Bank, 900 Massachusetts St. Seven police officers entered the bank yesterday with their guns drawn to end the hour-long standoff. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Attempted robbery closes stores
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dow, and we saw police hiding around the corners of buildings and behind cars. We could see at least six police cars. It seemed as though there was more going on that we didn't want to become involved with."
Police closed off two blocks of Massachusetts Street and nearby cross streets and locked down businesses. Toni Najjar, Arlington, Texas, junior, and Cara Morgan, Kansas City, Mo., junior, were walking across the street from the bank when a police officer
approached them and made them go into Weaver's Department Store, 901 Massachusetts St., where they were ushered out the back door.
Najjar said that police were patting down everyone who edged the bank.
Meanwhile, lunch-hour patrons at the Mad Greek restaurant, 907 Massachusetts St., were moved toward the back of the restaurant and allowed to leave only through its back door.
"It was very shocking," said Peggy Kritos, owner. "The only thing they told us was that a situation was going on at the bank."
A crowd of people watched the ordeal from Ninth Street. Some joked that there were better ways to get money for Christmas shopping.
Vicki Vormehr and Gall Youngquist, co-owners of Vormehr and Youngquist Gallery, which is next door to the bank, didn't know how long they would be locked inside their business and decided to open a bottle of wine and eat popcorn as they waited for the situation to end.
"I'm just glad it's over," Vohrmehr said.
— Edited by Sarn Duet
Research may help prevent global warming
Ru Trouvie Board
Special to the Kansan
What lies underground may be an answer to the global warming phenomenon caused by emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
University of Kansas researchers are looking for ways to measure farmers' carbon emissions and legislators may want to give farmers incentives to reduce them.
University researchers are developing a way to test how much carbon is kept underground with the use of certain farming practices. The goal of the research is to keep plant and animal material in the soil, where it can provide nutrients, instead of releasing carbon into the atmosphere. Scientists theorize this discharge of carbon leads to global heat retention.
The research could eventually be
used part of a plan to compensate farmers for decreasing carbon emissions.
Efforts to secure funding for carbon sequestration methods, led by U.S. Sen, Pat Roberts, R-Kan, have afforded Kansas State University and the University of Kansas grants to conduct research. Now, the University's applied remote sensing program is using a $1 million NASA grant to develop a way to use satellites to determine how much carbon is being trapped.
Kevin Price, associate professor of geography and associate director of the program, said researchers were developing a method of determining whether land, users were sequestering more carbon.
"If they are, potentially they could receive carbon credits. They could sell them and make some money for using land practices that take more CO2 out of the atmosphere
and put it into the soil."
Farmers would be allotted carbon credits, the amount of carbon they would be allowed to release into the atmosphere. Farmers who cme in under their carbon limit could sell their remaining credits people or companies who couldn't meet their limit.
"If you're going to grow agriculture, then let's use practices that increase the amount of organic matter, decrease CO2 and improve soil," Price said. "Organic mass is like putting a sponge in the soil. It won't dry up as easily, and it will hold water and nutrients."
Price said Canada already had a similar system of rewarding farmers who kept carbon underground.
"The reason everyone isn't adapting is because it's very expensive to buy the equipment. If you plant seeds, you've got to have a nice, clem field," Price said. "When you
try to plant using conventional equipment, you may be able to buy a machine for $15,000 to $20,000, when a low-till or no-till counterpart would cost $150,000. But if they see they can make money in the long run, it will encourage more to shift over."
Companies that release CO2 would have to buy permits if they wanted to boost emissions, and Price said a carbon credits system could stop increases in atmospheric CO2 levels in the Midwest, and possibly compensate for past increase$^{5}$
"Basically, we're trying to encourage more research into the carbon cycle and developing the positive relationship between farmer and carbon limits," said Betsy Holahan, press secretary for Sen. Roberts. "Climate change is something we have to address."
— Edited by Kathryn Moore and John Audelhelm
World AIDS Day December 1,2000
Friday, December 1st KS Union & Wescoe Terrace Information Tables 10:00 AM-2:00 PM Pick up your free condom, red ribbon,and HIV testing information.
Twenty Bells Project at 2:00 PM The Campanile bells will ring 20 times in recognition of 20 years of the epidemic.
World AIDS Day Reception Spencer Art Museum, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM The "Names Project Quilt" panels will be displayed Nov.17th- Dec.1st Guest speaker Dennis Daily.
For more information, call 864-9573
Events sponsored by Watkins Memorial Health Center, Coca-Cola, DCAP, Jayhawk Communication, Student Development Center, and Kansas & Burge Unions
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