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Thursday, March 7, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
German professor enlivens classes with taste of culture
By Sarah Davis
Kenyon staff writer
Kansan staff writer
KU offers students a little slice of German life ...
Rolf-Peter Janz, professor of German at the Berlin Free University in West Berlin was invited to teach in a course on the University of Kansas this semester.
Janz, who arrived in Kansas on Feb. 17 to begin teaching, said he hoped that through his two courses, German Classical Literature and German Romantic Literature, students would have a fresh approach to German issues.
"My main idea is that they should exploit me and get information they feel is necessary for them." he said.
William Keel, chairperson of the department of German, said Yanz could broaden perspectives on current issues.
"He's able to keep us up to date on situations in the former East Germany," he said.
Yanz came to KU as a Max Kade distinguished professor, a position filled each spring since 1965 by a professor from Germany.
Keel said that the department of German kept a running list of posisitive candidate for the position and in terms of teaching and research in terms of teaching and research.
Most classes Yanz teaches in Germany have from 30 to 150 students, so he said he enjoyed his classical class, which has only six students.
"It's an opportunity to deal with the students more intensely and address them more frequently in a small class." he said.
He speaks mostly German during his classes, something he thinks helps students.
Brian Osborn, an Okmulgee, Okla,
senior, enrolled in Yanz's classical
literature class. agreed
“There’s a fringe benefit in that it helps you improve your German,” he
said.
Yanz said that he hoped that not only would the students in his classical literature class be able to grasp the language but that they would learn a little more about the culture and history of the period the course focuses on — the last decade of the 18th century.
"It's the history of literature, the history of ideas and the philosophy of the time," Yanz said. "I want them to learn something about the way of thinking about history during this century." A lot of impact for the 19th century.
Yanz said the literature, art and history of the past remained a model for looking at life today. The class is very interested why people look to these old models.
"Professor Yanz is a very dynamic and charismatic person," he said. Keel] said students could benefit
Henrich Quinnespool to the KANASI
Rolf-Fehr Janz explains an assignment to his literature class.
from contact with Yanz.
"It's good for our students to come in contact with methods and teaching styles of German professors," he said.
Allies leave Mideast with weapons variety
WASHINGTON — The Middle East arms bazaar is open for business after a brief time-out for the 42-day Persian Gulf War.
The Associated Press
The United States has announced plans to sell Egypt $1.6 billion in airplanes and bombs.
U. S. officials said some weapons shipped to the gulf for the war would be left for the Saudi hosts; and one official said that some Soviet-built aircraft from Iraq would be given to Syria, another member of the U.S.-led coalition.
The world was briefly stunned to see Iraq's massive arsenal and to hear of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. Revelations that Western companies and governments were responsible resulted in much head-shaking and some soul-searching.
The Iraqi bought Scud missiles from the Soviets, Exocet missiles from the French, cannons for chemical artillery from the Austrians,
computer technology from the Americans and gas centrifuges for uranium production from the Germans.
What all arms control agreements have in common is a significant flaw — an absence of any enforcement provisions.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iraq is a signatory, could not stop Baghdad from buying enriched uranium and trying to develop an enrichment capacity of its own.
The 14-nation Missile Technology Control Regime did not stop the Soviets from selling Iraq the Seud firing at Israel and Saudi Arabia
To bolster the treaties, the United States set up the Nuclear Suppliers Group to prevent the spread of nuclear arms. It joined the Australia Group to stop biological and chemical weapons, and it established the control regime to stop the sale of ballistic missiles.
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