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Wednesdav. July 11, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Aimona Anderson, an Upward Bound senior from Kansas City, Kan., talks with Barbara Bellard, associate dean of student life.
Program to send students to capital Area high school students participate in Upward Bound on the KU campus
By Bryan Reber
Kansan staff writer
High school students from Lawrence and the surrounding area have spent the last six weeks on the KU campus enrolled as students in Upward Bound.
On Saturday, the students will travel to Washington, D.C., to culminate their summer activities. Ngondi Kamataka, director of Upward Bound, said the summer program began June 10.
Fifty-two students are enrolled in the KU summer program. They represent nine high schools in the region.
Upward Bound, established in 1984, is a program of the U.S. Department of Education designed to provide skills necessary to succeed in college. The program began in the mid-1970s, Kamataka said.
"We try to maintain a balance between the high schools, 'Kamutaka said. "Students are recommended by school counselors, community services and friends. These students have the skills to communicate in school, go on to college and come home." We are lacking in guidance, which we try to provide."
The students selected for Upward Bound attend weekly tutoring sessions and participate in other activities throughout the academic year. During the summer they attend the institute, Kamatuka said.
Kamataka joined the KU Upward Bound staff as the academic services coordinator in 1987. In 1988 he became director of the KU Upward Bound program. He said that during his tenure of the KU Upward Bound students had graduated from high school, Nationwide, 97 percent graduate from high school. There are 500 Upward Bound programs in the United States.
During the summer, institute students attend in math, science, literature, writing and U.S. government classes each weekday morning. Afternoons are spent participating in recreation activities or community service. In the evening, students study and attend theater classes.
Kelly Zabikla, who taught at Central Junior High School in Lawrence last year, is teaching U.S. government to Upward Bound students this summer.
She also helped plan the trip to Washington. She said the students were excited about a private tour of the White House. The students, who will leave on May 17, are part of various memorials and the Smithsonian Institute.
Monday, students in Jodi Breckenridge's science class discussed acid rain. Breckenridge graduated from KU in May with majors in chemistry and physics. She is now a teacher, she said, during the past academic year, she said.
aware of the advantages."
Lawrence High School junior Lanh Morris said, "The classes are helpful. There's a lot of stuff we probably won't have in our regular high school class because of the distance since class we're learning about the environment."
"They're all good kids," Breckenridge said. "They want to get a lot out of the program, 'They'
Morris said the geometry class she was taking in Upper Bound this summer would help her when she visits the university.
Kamatuka said the community service component of the program was new this year. The students are working with the Boys and Girls Club in the City's recreation Service and Ballard Community Center.
"We feel it's important for students to learn to volunteer," he said. "We hope they'll carry the idea of volunteering back to their own communities."
Dane Flohr, unit director of the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence, said 20 Upward Bound students come to the club twice a week.
"We're trying to help develop relationships between the Upward Bound kids and the younger kids in the club," Floyd said. "We want to show the kids what a similar organization with a similar organization in their own town."
Danielle Hilton, a Summer Academy sophomore from Kansas City, Kan., said, "The community service part of Upward Bound is good. I like working at the Boys and Girls Club."
By Bryan Reber
Kansan staff writer
New KU law prof brings expertise in world banking
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When Namibia achieved independence from South Africa in March, John Head was particularly interested.
Head will join KU as associate professor of law this fall. Since
1988 he has served as legal counsel for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, in Thailand, through which he drafted most
of the banking legislation for the new Namibian government
"The IMF does things other than lend money," Head said. "It provides technical assistance and advice in the drafting of legislation and sends experts in to help set up a central bank."
Head worked almost exclusively with banking legislation.
Kansan staff writer
Head
Before joining the IMF he and his family spent five years in Manila, Philippines, with the Asian Development Bank.
"I wanted to teach when we returned from Manila," Head said. "KU was not looking for an international legal professor then and the IMF came up with an offer."
He said he was pleased when the University called him last fall, expressing an interest in him as a candidate for a new job. The call from KU came shortly before he was the first of two trips to Namibia.
Head first went to Namibia for the IMF in October at the request of the United Nations. He served on a six-member team sent to Namibia to begin drafting banking legislation. He returned in April as deputy minister, and was then appointed IMF, this time at the request of the new Namibian government.
Between his visits, a constitutional assembly was elected. A new constitution was written and independence from South Africa
was celebrated on March 21.
Head said he noticed changes in the country between his first and second trips.
"The change in the governmental structure impressed me," he said.
The South African-supported civil service organization which existed in October had changed in April. Head said the changes were made in medium and high-status positions. These changes were based on whether the government officials were Nnamihian, he said.
There also were changes in the business environment.
He said there was cautious realism in the business community in October. There had been some capital flight because no one knew what would happen with a new government.
"People were edgy," Head said.
"In April there was a sense of bouyancy, a sense of 'look what we've done.'" he said.
There was a sense in the financial community that things were going pretty well.
"All in all, it was a quite optimistic, almost euphoric, spirit we saw," Head said.
Head said that to draft new banking legislation he looked at the existing legislation which had been imported from South Africa.
He met with government and U.N. officials and leaders from commercial banks and other financial institutions. He said he was careful in his discussions with these leaders.
"We knew we were working in a highly charged political environment and didn't want our visit to as political ammunition," be said.
He said he found that most people were calling for a central and independent bank, precisely envisioned by IMF personnel.
Head also helped draft the Financial Institutions Act, which imposes specific rules of operations on financial institutions and places responsibility for licensing the institutions to the central bank.
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