University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 7, 1991
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Cultural Connections Programs this Month Include:
ELLSWORTH
February 19: Religious Panel 7:00 Main Lobby
GSP/CORBIN
HASHINGER
February 21: Mike Triplett - Discussion on Homophobia 7:30 GSP Main Lobby
February: "Thursday Thoughts" Weekly Movies Celebrating Black History Month
JRP
February 20: Presentation by Barbara Ballard
7:00 Main Lobby
LEWIS
February 1-28: Sharing My Hometown Main Lobby
McCOLLUM
February 23: Cross Cultural Talent Show 7:00 Main Lobby
OLIVER
February 27: Hispanic Concerns and Culture 7:00 Main Lobby
TEMPLIN HALL
February 19: The Islamic Perspective by Shams Shaikh 7:30 Main Lobby
SCHOLARSHIP HALLS
February 25: Discussion on Racism (Chuck Thyfault) 9:00 Stephenson Hall
Two will return to Israel
Students to go back despite war
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
Many KU students have canceled their plans to study in Israel because of the threat of Iraqi Seqi missile attacks and chemical warfare.
However, two KU students plan to return to Israel within the next two weeks, war or no war.
Margaret Jungk, Woodridge, Ill. graduate student, is one of those students
"Even though I am not Jewish, I feel a connection with the country." Jungk said. "I have friends on both ends, Arab and Jewish friends."
Jungk spent last semester studying
in Israel on a graduate scholarship program, doing private research on human rights violations on the West Bank for the Israeli Justice Ministry.
Bank for the United Nations military.
She left Israel on Jan. 15, before the
Iraqi Scud attacks.
Melissa Unterberg/KANSAN
"I felt bad leaving in the first place," she said. "I felt like I was going back to the U.S. when Israel needed the support the most."
But friends and family were worried when she was there and are concerned now that she is going back.
Scott Jungk, Margaret's brother, said. "We are worried. But she has a mind of her own."
However, he said he was happy his sister was returning because that was what she wanted to do.
"She's done well for herself. We are proud of her." he said.
Sister Pat Norris of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road, a friend of her daughter was worried about Jung's safety.
But Norris said she knew Jungk wanted to go back to Israel.
"She loves the country and loves the people." Norris said.
Carrie Fleider, Overland Park junior, is another student who plans to return to Israel in the next two weeks.
"I feel that I am very committed to Israel," she said.
However, Fleider said the program in which she participated last semester might be canceled because of the Persian Gulf War.
"I still want to go," she said. "For me, I've had three months there, and I still have my plans."
Her parents,however,are not as happy about her trip.
"They're really not excited for me to go back," she said.
She said her family and friends had been very supportive about her decision to return to Israel.
"I have more people than myself to consider," she said.
She said that if her program were canceled, she definitely would go back to Israel in the summer.
Seeing without seeing
Michael Gier, Parsons seniors, guides blindfolded Aimee Brainard, Litchfield Park, Ariz., sophomore, along Jayhawk Boulevard
during a sensory deprivation exercise for their Reporting II class. The exercise was designed to help students develop their creative writing skills by stimulating senses other than vision.
Residence halls celebrate cultural, ethnic diversity
Kansan staff writer
By Jonathan Plummer
Throughout February, KU residence halls will sponsor presentations, films and discussions about our mission. A celebration called Cultural Connections.
Milton Scott, assistant director of student housing, said he suggested the topic of cultural diversity to each class on campus. He said a number of different programs.
"We wanted to offer them a challenge to find variety and be creative." Scott said.
The cultural connection theme was chosen as a way of enlarging on the themes of African-American History Month. he said.
"We wanted to celebrate more than Black History Month, but we didn't want to take away from that." She added, "This gave us a chance to expand.
"We hope this will get people to start thinking about other cultures and bridge that gap. We want to open people up."
Scott said that the 30 different
programs the halls had developed showed that the project worked.
"I think that is really good because it exposes residents to different cultures and opinions," he said.
Jennifer Schuh, a member of the academic programming committee at McCollum, said the fair would be from 6 to 9 p.m.
Scott said that the program would start tonight with the Cultural Connections International Fair at McColum Hall.
Schuh said that McCollum had been host to an international fair since 1983 but that this year's fair was organized in a new way.
Schub said that participants were not limited to national cultures and, in fact, many religious cultures would be represented as well.
For example, Ellsworth Hall was assigned Asia, and it will feature Thailand as one of its cultures, she said.
Each residence hall was assigned a continent and asked to represent it with food and customs, she said.
Researcher preserved blood, saved lives
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
He was known as "Big Red" for his slightly reddish hair, but Charles Drew's advanced research in the field of blood plasma and transfusions gave his nickname a much more profound meaning.
The techniques Drew developed for separating and preserving blood helped save countless lives on the fields of Europe during World War II.
When the Battle of Britain broke out in 1940, the areas of blood banking and blood plasma research were still in the early stages. Researchers in the field are now more useful, and reports from the front indicated that it was in demand.
Because of his extensive research in plasma, Drew, a surgeon and professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was the ideal choice for director of the "Blood for Britain" program.
During his year as the program's director, Drew established a rigorous quality-control process for all of the plasma sent to Great Britain. He also discovered that refrigerating blood ensured sterile plasma.
Ironically, although Drew was one of the world's leading experts on blood plasma and transfusions, he could not donate his own blood. Both British and U.S. military regulations require blood from donating blood to white soldiers.
After supervising the "Blood for Britain" program and later the American Red Cross blood donor project, Drew returned to Howard University in 1941 to his first love — teaching.
Drew's ties to Howard University and Washington, D.C. were old and strong.
The oldest of four children, he was born in Washington on June 3, 1904. He left his hometown long enough to complete an undergraduate degree at Amherst College, where he was on the football and track teams.
In 1938, Drew left Howard for a two-year fellowship at Columbia University. It was during this time that he did much of his research in blood plasma and transfusions. His dissertation on "banked blood" elevated him to national prominence as a pioneer in blood preservation.
After receiving his medical degrees in 1933 from McGill University, Drew promptly returned to teach pathology at Howard.
Drew also found his professional life to be a source of happiness in his personal life. He met Minnie Lorenzo Robbins in Atlanta in the spring of 1939 on his way to a medical convention in Tuskegee, Ala. Three days after their first meeting, he proposed to her.
Drew and Robbins married Sept.
23, 1839, and had four children before
his untimely death 11 years later.
Shortly before his 46th birthday, Drew was injured mortally in a car accident on the way to the same convention in Tuskegee on April 1, 1950. Ironically, blood transfusions did not heal Drew's massive injuries.
No one will know how much more
Charles Drew
But he accomplished enough in his lifetime to ensure that "Big Red" would long be remembered as a surgeon, scientist and teacher.
Drew would have accomplished had he lived a normal life sapp.
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