FEATURES OP/ED A & E SPORTS Taylor Macceux chats Rubin encourages Jazz weekend Women’s soccer with Ameya Balsekar open conversation brings the samba earns trip to NCAAs >> page 4 >> pages 7 >> page 8 >> page 10 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 THE LAWRENTIAN Vol. CXXVIII, No. 9 Lawrence University's student newspaper since 1884 www.Lawrentian.com Sister city program celebrates 20th anniversary Tammy Tran A series of educational pro- involved. Something that would be between Kurgan and Appleton was taught in Kurgan in 2001 and 2006. Staff Writer grams was held in the Warch important for Lawrence students made official in the John G. Strange Both times, I taught Freshmen Campus Center Nov. 5. The pro- to know is simply that this part- Common Room of Main Hall. Studies in Kurgan. It was very well Lawrence hosted a series of grams included a presentation by nership is here. It isn’t something Lawrence’s contributions to received over there,” said Lauter. events commemorating the Fox Lauter, his wife Estella and a panel that should only be considered the Fox Cities-Kurgan Sister Cities Assistant Professor of Russian Cities-Kurgan, Russia Sister Cities of four individuals representing by Russian majors or people spe- Program have continued through- Studies Peter Thomas reflected Program’s 20th anniversary Nov. different occupational spheres in cifically interested in [...] studying out the last 20 years. on the program. He explained, “I 4 and 5. Kurgan. Russia. There are opportunities “In the summer of 1990,” would like Lawrentians to know The festivities began with According to Timothy Schmidt, to expand partnerships into other explained Lauter, “two Lawrence that many people here in Appleton “Beet the Borscht,” a borscht taste coordinator of international stu- areas and different interests.” graduates went off to Kurgan to have spent years developing per- test competition that took place dent services and lecturer of the The mission of the Sister Cities teach English for the year. Over 80 sonal relationships with individu- Nov. 4. Waseda program, panelists “gave Program is to work toward the people from Lawrence University als and institutions in Kurgan, and “There was a team from Bon a talk about their particular areas creation of a safer world through and Kurgan State University have many in Kurgan have done the Appétit, a team from Fox Valley in Kurgan and what the sisterhood improving economic, civic, educa- participated back and forth in both same here in Appleton.” Technical College and then a team with Appleton has meant to them tional and health opportunities in directions.” Thomas continued, “They do from the Russian department at going forward.” the Kurgan, Russia and Fox Cities Faculty exchanges between so because they all believe that Lawrence,” stated Chuck Lauter, Specifically, there were discus- regions. Specifically, the program Lawrence and Kurgan State personal relationships, no matter former Lawrence University dean sions on journalistic integrity, edu- has achieved improvements in University have also taken place how insignificant they may seem of students. “All the borscht was cation, business development and educational opportunities, global in the last 20 years. “Our Russian on the international stage, offer so good that nobody could figure the environment. security, economic development language assistant is from Kurgan the strongest and most effective out which was best.” According to Brett Schilke, pro- and cooperation between govern- this year,” Schmidt noted. “We argument against the destructive The competition was followed gram coordinator of the Fox Cities ment and public services. receive professors from Kurgan and willful ignorance that plagues by a traditional Russian dinner Kurgan City Sister Program, mem- Kurgan was assigned as who come to learn about American the political and economic rela- and a small awards ceremony. To bers of the Lawrence community Appleton’s sister city in Aug. 1989. teaching methods, do research and tionships between our two coun- close the evening, the Wisconsin who did not attend the events can According to Schilke, “Lawrence provide lectures.” tries.” Russian Folk Orchestra performed still learn more about the program. University was involved from the Professors from Lawrence, in Stansbury Theatre. Said Schilke, “One of our main very beginning.” During the first including Lauter, have also taught goals is to get people engaged and delegation in 1990, the sisterhood at the Kurgan State University. “I Former Ambassador Perina delivers VCSC hosts “Encounter Poverty” event to raise campus awareness Justin Jones years into their effort, Corazones first Polvony lecture of 2010-2011 Staff Writer Felices has helped more than 1,500 Maggie Brickner Perina introduced the lecture tives: to stop the war, to reverse families. Staff Writer by saying, “The end of the Cold the territorial gains of ethnic The Volunteer and Community Rojas and his team have War was good news… I find it cleansing and to preserve Bosnia Service Center organized an event fought hard to reduce high rates rather remarkable that at the end as a single state by preventing Last Monday, former ambas- called “Encounter Poverty: Two of divorce and domestic violence of the Cold War we find really only Bosnian Serb succession.” In his sador and Stephen Edward Scarff Perspectives” Thursday, Sept. 4 by providing families with week- the conflicts I will be talking about opinion, the peace agreement was Memorial Distinguished Visiting to provide students with multiple end programs and meetings. tonight, this is not to say it is to successful on all three counts. Professor Rudolf Perina spoke perspectives on the subject of pov- Corazones Felices is also helping say that they were not terrible, but As he looks toward the future, about the ongoing ethnic con- erty and the specific problems more than 200 children pay for it is to say that they could have Perina is pessimistic. He sees an flicts in former Yugoslavia and the facing aid workers from nation to education and medical treatment. been much worse.” era of international disagreement Soviet Union. nation. “Children without dreams, now Despite the fact that the con- in the current post-Dayton Accords The first in the 2010 Povolny In cooperation with Appleton dream,” said Rojas. flicts could have been “much period, but Perina also views aid lecture series, the lecture marked Alliance Church, the VCSC brought Traore’s fight against poverty worse,” the discord in Yugoslavia from the European Union as ben- the 15th anniversary of the Dayton together Antonio “Jesus” Rojas is in some ways even more basic over the past 20 years has been eficial. He sees the prospects for Accords, the peace agreement that of Peru and Thomas Traore of than that of Rojas and Corazones the biggest conflict in Europe since gradual resolution are somewhat ended the Bosnian war. During the Burkina Faso to discuss personal Felices. Burkina Faso, considered World War II. better in Yugoslavia than the for- Dayton Accords, Perina acted as experiences with poverty in their the third poorest nation on earth The conflicts, although they mer Soviet Union “simply because the United States’ representative countries. by the U.N., is only in its 15th year arose for various reasons, were the EU is closer.” to Serbia. Rojas explained that he has of independence from France and mostly based on ethnic differenc- In his lecture, Perina echoed The lecture was well attended been dealing with poverty since is still struggling to provide for its es. Perina expressed this sentiment Associate Professor of Government by students, community members childhood. In Peru, more than a poorer citizens. when he asked, “Why should I be a and Edwin & Ruth West Professor and even by Emeritus Professor of quarter of the population lives Village residents still have to minority in your state when I can of Economics and Social Science Government and Henry M. Wriston below the poverty line. He was walk one to two miles just for succeed and you will be a minority Claudena Skran’s introductory Professor of Social Sciences Mojmir born into a lower class family and water, and, according to Traore, in mine?” words. In her introduction, Skran Povolny himself. was a direct witness to the hard- the water is often of poor qual- History, geography, poor lead- said, “There are a lot of underlying Perina’s lecture was titled ships of the poor. ity. Thus, much of Traore’s work ership and outside intervention economic conflicts and being in “Europe’s Post-Cold War Conflicts: Rojas and his organization involves drilling wells closer to only heightened the ethnic ten- the European Union would help to The Prospects for Peace in the Corazones Felices, or Happy villages and trying to keep them sions in these areas. solve this.” Successor States to Yugoslavia and Hearts, have made significant open and clean. For example, international aid In closing, Perina added: “In an the Soviet Union.” steps towards providing children Beyond that, Traore, with the from the United States, Russia and era of globalization, ethnic diver- In the lecture, he gave an over- with food to eat, means to attain help of Compassion International, later the European Union often sity should be seen as an attribute view of both the history of succes- education and safety from the is also trying to get children only worsened the conflicts. The rather than a problem by those sions in these regions and whether growing levels of drug and gang back in school by providing them Dayton Accords, on the other who have the interests of their eth- or not the regions can hope to related violence in certain areas. with free education and institut- hand, represent one international nic groups truly at heart.” Perina become legitimate states. Perina Rojas admits that the challeng- ing “scholar canteen” programs, effort that actually did help to took several questions from the focused mainly on the conflicts es facing him were daunting.