• September
Vol. 83, No. 7
VISTA
Thursday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Fundraising begins for cultural exchange By Eva Galipeau Central State University's College of Education has launched a fundraising campaign in an effort to promote cultural exchanges between the university and a South Korean secondary school. Won-Hee Lee, principal and founder of two secondary schools in Seoul, visited CSU in 1982 as a guest of Hall Duncan, professor of art. As a result of that visit, Lee and Dean of Education Dr. Dale Mullins signed a statement of cooperation and understanding between the two institutions. "The terms of the agreement were mutually beneficial,"
Mullins reports. "We are to provide training experiences for faculty and staff of the Korean schools and in turn we will gain an understanding of education and culture in their country." Last March, Lee launched the Daewon Foreign Language High School, a liberal arts institution dedicated to offering talented students a solid grounding in English and a second language, either French, Spanish, Japanese or German. As the first of its kind in Korea, the high school aims to contribute to Korea's international development in various fields including
politics, diplomacy, economics, culture and science. In recognition of the relationship between the two institutions, Lee dubbed CSU the "sister school" of Daewon. "We'd like to send faculty to Lee to help his teachers teach conversational English," Mullins said. "This school is a worthwhile project for everyone involved." Oklahoma's Kirkpatrick Foundation, led by John E. Kirkpatrick, an honorary consulate to Korea, offered a substantial donation to help the school, but Mullins believes more aid will be needed if an ongoing relationship is to be promoted.
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An afternoon on Thatcher Lake featured tug-o-war team (front to back) Natalie Fritz, Terri Harvey, Dana Fallwell, Joetta Quinters, Kathi Bray and Shelly Dowdy pulling their weight in Tuesday's tug-o-war tournament.
Dorms to get cable TV •
By Curtis Killman Students living in the dormitories will soon have the complicated task of deciding what to do—watch MTV, HBO, Showtime, ESPN, or maybe if there is nothing else on TV, then possibly studying. Cable television in the rooms of the dormitory residents is on the way, but will not be available until later this fall, according to Robert Fields, director of housing. A spokesman at Cablevision of Edmond also said cable will be available "after Christmas," at
which time a flyer will be circulated to the students explaining how to initiate service. Students will have to go to the Cablevision office and show their student ID in order to start service. An additional deposit for the decoder box may be added. "They (the administration) contacted Multimedia of Edmond about installing the cable in the student's dorms and an agreement was reached concerning how the contract for service would be arranged," Fields said. He also said the contract for
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service would be strictly between the student and Multimedia, and "under the same terms as the people of Edmond." The university will not be involved with deposits or the payment of bills, he said. The cable will be available in all four of the dormitories but John Pruitt, head resident at Thatcher Hall, said, "they were going to wait until the pipes are installed for air conditioning before putting in the cable, because they (the air conditioning installers) have a tendency to cut cable." He based this, he said, on prior experience at Murdaugh Hall. The cable hookup outlets were installed in August in East, West, and Murdaugh Halls before the students moved into them. Original projections called for completion of the cable hookups by the first of November, but delays have postponed the date until around the first of the year, according to Fields. The contract between Cablevision and Central State gives them until August of 1985 before installation must be completed.
"We see this as a growing venture that will be rewarding for both institutions," Mullins said. "Eventually the relationship may include CSU students as well as faculty and graduates of the foreign language school who may come to CSU for further studies." The terms of these exchanges are that the visiting schools will pay traveling costs themselves while the hosts will provide housing and meals upon arrival. "It's the traveling costs which really become expensive," Mullins insists. "Round trip plane fare to South Korea amounts to
about $1,200 per person." The Daewon, KoreaCSU College of Education Development Fund, as the drive is formally titled, was established to help defray these traveling costs. The commitment of both institutions to the success of this venture is demonstrated in the final line of the document that spawned this intercultural association: "We the undersigned pledge to cooperate and work together to develop and nurture this relationship for the mutual benefit of all parties."
South African consuls to address assembly By MaryGaye Franklin Associate Editor Two representatives of the apartheid government of South Africa will speak here at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Oct. 1 in the LA auditorium. Johan de Longe, consul for information, and Barry Oberholzer, political consul, for the Republic of South Africa will be coming to the campus from the South African Consulate in Houston. "They called me and said they would be in the Oklahoma City area and offered to speak here on campus," said Dr. John George, professor of political science. "They will be speaking about South Africa and essentially they are acting as public relations representatives for their country." George said there may be some people who will protest allowing them to speak on campus because of dislike for their apartheid form of government. "Because of the government policies of South Africa, some people don't even want them to be allowed to speak. Letting everyone speak, letting everyone be heard is what this country is supposed to stand for," George said. "One main part of a university is a marketplace for ideas." The government which has been
controlled by the National Party since 1948 is composed of caucasians. The policy of the National Party is apartheid (pronounced uh-part-ate) which is racial segregation by law. Whites only compose 16 percent of the total population of South Africa. Nine percent of these are Afrikaners which are of Dutch, French Huguenot and German descent and the other 7 percent is composed of Englishmen. Native black Africans make up 72 percent of the population with the rest of the population composed of 9 percent "coloreds" and 3 percent Indians. "There are a lot of people who are extremely opposed to this sort of government. In fact, there is a great deal of violence going on in South Africa right now in protest of the apartheid government," George said. Recently the National Party instituted a three party legislature composed of separate legislatures for whites, "coloreds" and Indians, but still none for the indigenous majority black population. This has brought about violent protests from the blacks. Riots have erupted in which 32 have been killed and over 300 injured.
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Tina Nye, sophomore, indicates her support for reformed liquor laws during Tuesday's election.