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, Technician North Carolina State University's Student Newspaper Since 1920 Volume LXV. Number 39 Wednesday. November30. 1983 Raleig'h. North Carolina Phone 737-2411/2412 Students plan spnngtnpto -.w.m....a”. Japanese IBM Neil Maverloa in one of their overcrowded trains. I Staff Writer guess I'll just have to ‘bite the bullet‘ when I ridethe bullet train." Two State students will be travel- Blume and Mangum said they ing to Japan next spring as part of intend to make the most of their an internship program arranged by Japan experience. the North Carolina Japan Center. Both said while they are in Japan. Gene Mangum and Leo Blume will they intend to live as the Japanese b.- employed for three months in do rather than try to recreate an Japan at IBM's Fujisawa Develop- American lifestyle in Japan. ment Laboratory as research assis- In addition. Mangum hopes to tents. travel in Japan when his work period As the first students to be placed is over. in Japan by the Japan Center. they “I'm interested in Japan's feudal will be the first State students to past. I would like to visit cities such participate in the cooperative educa- as Kyoto and Nara that played an tion program in Japan. important role in the history of Blume and Mangum were selected Jspan." Mangum said. photoby Leo Blume for this program based on their mummmandteollume.aretravellnstom CentenllumeandMsngvmwlllberesearchasslstantsatlIM'sFuiisawa Japanese language training and their For Blume. the change in cultural technical skills. milieu is intriguing. “I'm looking Far East next spring as part of an internship program arranged by the Japan Development program in Japan. Both have studied Japanese at forward to experiencing the many Japanese language program. said For his part. Coleman hopes that State for almost five semesters. facets of what amounts to a totally that the program at State is some- the Japan Center will be able to During that time. they have acquired alien culture." he said. what unique among foreign language coordinate additional opportunities a level of proficiency in spoken Blume and Mangum's internship programs in both its rate of growth for Japanese language students to Japanese that will enable them to not only marks the extension of and in its teaching philosophy. live and work in Japan. Council begins debate communicate adequately in most Japanese travel and work op- "We started this program four “This program of putting students commonly encountered day-to—day portunities to students. but also years ago with no students and now in positions in Japan is still young situations. illustrates the deepening relationship have over 70." she said. “This makes and at an experimental stage. but it Mangum brings his skills as a between Japan and North Carolina. us the largest Japanese language has a lot of potential." he said. systems programmer to the position. Playing the pivotal role in deep- program in the Southeast outside of “The kind of experience in Japan on tobacco support After graduating from State last ening the "Japanese Connection" is Washington. DC. that Gene and Leo are going to get year in computer science. he has been the North Carolina Japan Center. “The student makeup of our will make any person a more ef- RALEIGH. NC. (UPI) — The North The first speakers included Hope working at the EPA while studying Sam Coleman. associate director of classes makes the program unique. fective colleague of the Japanese and Carolina Council of Churches began a Shand. research director of the Rural Japanese as a special student. the Japan Center. explains the Two thirds of our students have tech- thus a much more effective employee series of hearings Tuesday on the Advancement Fund and National Mangum will be using his skills to do purpose of the center. nical and scientific majors.with the of a company in the US." moral dilemma it sees in supporting Sharecroppers Fund. devoted to software analysis and development “The Japan Center was formed to largest groups coming from Magnum For students interested in the the tobaccoindustry. preservation ofthe small farm. for IBM in Japan. strengthen North Carolina‘s ties with and Blume's majors of electrical possibility of traveling and working The Rev. Rufus Stark. head of the She said tobacco has helped the Blume is a graduate student in Japan with the ultimate goal of engineeringand computer science." in Japan. Coleman recommends council committee staging the small farmer in business in North electrical engineering who will be becoming more viable economic Speaking of her teaching philoso starting early in their Japanese hearings. said he and his group want Carolina. but that is changing. suspending his studies to work on partners.“ he said. phy. Kataoka said she likes to language training. to learn more about tobacco and get video display development at the ' Though Mangum and Blume's encourage informal gatherings be “The single most important thing ideas on whether he and other “In the last 15 years we have seen Fujisawa facility. internship is the first to be arranged tween students and their Japanese for students interested in this possi- ministers should recommend that dramatic changes." she said. "and Despite their language training. for Japanese language students by professors. These functions. often bility is to study Japanese. We're farmers grow other crops instead. now the survival of our state's small Blume and Mangum are likely to the Japan Center. during the past including home-cooked Japanese food looking for students with two or Stark agreed that tobacco is a big farmer is severely threatened." encounter a number of cultural two years the Japan Center has sent and frequented by Japanese students more years of Japanese who have a B part of North Carolina's economy: Shand said that 90 percent of the differences that will make life in 29 State faculty members to Japan. at State. help introduce the student or better average in their major.“ flue-cured tobacco sales total over $1 flue-cured allotments in North Japan challenging. Faculty from many departments tothe culture ofJapan. "We’re particularly interested in billion a year. But he said the health Carolina are less than six acres. With In Japan. where the level "of including engineering. textiles. de— Mangum noted this facet of the science and technical fields. but we dangers of tobacco smoking also the increase of mechanization. those politeness used in speech depends on sign. education and others have State Japanese program in saying. could see placing students in other cannot be ignored. small allotments are becoming in- your social status. and where it is participated in this Faculty Fellow's “One of the things that has helped areas such as marketing and speech As a result. he said the group creasingly difficult to farm competi- culturally unacceptable to give direct program. the most to prepare me for this communication." he said. decided to hold the hearing. tively. she said. answers to questions. they anticipate Coleman describes the Faculty upcoming trip is the emphasis placed that communication may pose some Fellows program. “The purpose was on both language training and cultur- Proposed water project to harm the environment problems. to put people in various fields al familiarization." The role of young people in Japan together with their Japanese coun- may also present its share of dif- terparts in order to prepare in-state Kataoka suggests that there are ficulties. In Japan. young people do people for future professional in- many good reasons for students and not. in general. lead the kind of teraction with the Japanese." others to participate in the Japanese Hunt states disapproval of pipeline independent lifestyle that American Though the Japan Center has the language program. youth do. Thus. acclimating task of raising understanding of “Students who are good in their RALEIGH. NC. A proposed received during public hearings in quality in the Roanoke River Basin. themselves to the roles that are Japan in the state and of organizing own currirulum will find the Japa- pipeline from Lake Gaston to Title early November. The pipeline would reduce the expected by their Japanese hosts will work opportunities such as the one nese language ability an asset in water. Va.. would hurt striped bass. Besides detailing its various number of usable boat ramps and alsobechallenging. with IBM in Japan. the responsibility increasing their job opportunities." hydroelectric power and recreational ecological and legal complaints. the pose hazards to boaters. swimmers The crowded nature of life in for preparing students and faculty she said. activities. Gov. James Hunt and state again called on the Corps to and water skiers. The state noted Japan is also bound to be somewhat for their stays in Japan rests with “Also. it will provide them better other. state officials told the US. prepare an environmental impact that Kerr Lake. which is linked trying. State's Japanese language program. perspective and sympathy for people Army Corps of Engineers. statement. The Corps had ruled upstream to Lake Gaston. has suf- Blume said. “I'd hate to suffocate Hiroko Kataoka. head of State's ofother backgrounds." she said. In a document filed Monday. the tentatively that no such statement fered from low water levels in eigh state argued the 85-mile pipeline would be needed. but the state of the past 11 years. would violate federal laws on water disagreed. The corps should have discussed transfers. “Such a major decision should not the alternative of not having any Tidewater. Va.. wants to use the be made before the circulation to the pipeline. $176 million pipeline to take as much public of an adequate environmental “The corps summarily dismissed as 60 million gallons of water a day impact statement." the state said.

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