WESTERN NEWS Volume 6, Number 31 WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY April 10, 1980 Chinese educators to research here in 1980-81 Two Chinese educators from Nankai Clark, director of the Honors College. Kuo-Chu Ho, chairs the Nankai Depart- University at Tientsin in the People's Clark and Dr. Alfred K. Ho, economics, led ment of Physics, earned a Ph.D. degree at Republic of China will be in residence to those seminars to China, which included a the University of Notre Dame in Indiana study here during the 1980-81 academic total of 50persons. and did post-doctoral work at the year which begins Sept. 3. They are ex- Clark notes that the deadline is Friday, University of Chicago, prior to the IThebriefs Department of Educational pected to arrive in Kalamazoo in August. May 16, for WMU students or faculty to revolution in China in the 1940s. Leadership has awarded $250 fellowships They are Ms. Zhuo-Ying Gu, who will be contact the Honors College to be certainly Kuo-Chu Ho's son, Nai-Chu Ho, 26, is a to 10 undergraduate students for par- associated with the Department of considered for spending the 1980-81year in graduate student in chemistry at Western. ticipation in the department's research Chemistry, and Youqi Chen, who will do China. All living expenses of the two Alfred Ho had not seen his brother for 27 and evaluation seminar during the current research in the Department of Computer persons who go to China from WMU will be years until their 1975 meeting in Nankai winter semester. Science and to some extent in the paid by the Chinese but the Americans during the first WMUseminar. • •• Department of Mathematics. must pay for round trip transportation, as Clark and Alfred Ho will conduct their The Residence Hall food service and its They will be the first participants here in the two Chinese coming here must do. third seminar study program trip to China staff have been commended by the a new exchange program between Nankai Clark o~erved that the residency of the this summer, departing June 5 to spend the Michigan Senate in a resolution presented University and WMU being developed by Chinese here means "we are right up front period June 9 to 25 there visiting com- to Thomas J. Carr, assistant vice the Honors College. Two WMU faculty or in the exchange business with China" munes, the Great Wall, educational in- president and director of auxiliary en- students will travel to Nankai to study the among American colleges and univer- stitutions, factories, housing facilities, art terprises. The resolution recognizes Chinese during the 1980-81year. sities. "The exchange was difficult to treasures, health care facilities, museums Western's innovative, continuous and The exchange program evolved from arrange," Clark noted. "We waited six and more. They also will spend time in unlimited food service program which two seminar study programs in which months for a response after our formal Japan and Hong Kong. Total cost for the includes eating meals or snacks anytime WMU participants traveled to China in proposal last summer," he said. seminar is about $2,990from the U.S. west from 7 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Monday through 1975and 1978,according to Dr. Samuel 1. He o~erved that Alfred Ho's brother, coast. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sundays. The resolution also noted that each dining hall has a soup and sandwich shoppe and Honorary degree to the service has a modern Test Kitchen which has student input in selecting or Van Andel Monday Kohrman Hall dedication April 18 rejecting food products and menus. Carr Jay Van Andel, chairman of the board of George E. Kohrman, who served for 17 teaching ranks for the final year of his noted that students pay only $4.77a day for Amway Corp. at Ada, Mich., who was to years as first dean of the College of tenure here. these residence hall food privileges. have received an honorary doctor's degree Applied Sciences, will be honored at 2 p.m. He is a graduate of the University of •• • at the commencement on April 19, cannot Friday, April 18, when the former Missouri, where he also earned M.S. and "Women and the praft" will be the topic be present. Instead he will receive his Industrial and Engineering Technology Ed.D. degrees. He joined the WMU faculty of a free public workshop from 11:45 a.m. honor during the annual meeting of the Building is formally dedicated as Kohr- in 1951. to 1 p.m., Friday in the faculty dining Kalamazoo County Chamber of Commerce man Hall. Kohrman once served as State Director room, University Student Center. It is in the Kalamazoo Center at noon Monday, The brief cere- of Industrial Education in Missouri. sponsored by he Center for Women's April 14. mony will be held on Services. the north plaza of the • • • . building with Kohr- Final 'Open Office Hours' Harold Bloom, Yale University Degree candidates man as guest of professor of humanities, will lecture on honor. President Bernhard's final "Open Office Hart Crane tonight at 8 p.m. in Brown to secure regalia Kohrman retired Hours" session of the semester is from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. today in his office, 3062 Hall, Room 3321, and will conduct a Candidates for the April 19 com- in 1974 as emeritus seminar on Wallace Stevens at 11:30 a.m. professor of in- Seibert Administration Building. Faculty mencement exercises are reminded that members, staff members and students are Friday in Sprau Tower, 10th floor faculty regalia may be secured in the basement of dustrial education after returning to the Kohrman invited and no appointments are needed. lounge, for the university community. He the Student Center in the snack bar area will be a visiting scholar in the Depart- from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and on ment of English, sponsor of the free Saturday, April 19,from 10a.m. to 1p.m. programs. Faculty who are marching in the More than 1,750 to graduate April 19 commencement processional should More than 1,750 diplomas will be Roberts, Kalamazoo community service assemble in the hall on the second floor of awarded at the winter semester com- leader; and Dr. Myong Won Suhr, presi- Warfield speaks the Gary Center Gymnasium at 1p.m. mencement at 2p.m. Saturday, April 19, in dent of Chungnam National University, Emeriti of the university are cordially on PUSHtoday Read Fieldhouse. Seoul, Korea. invited to attend the winter com- A breakdown of the total shows 1,310 Charles C. Warfield, educational mencement ceremony. They may write bachelor's degrees, 424 master's, three For the first time, a Distinguished leadership, will speak on "PUSH (People Dennis Boyle, registrar, or call at 3-1630so specialist's and 19 doctorates. In addition, Service Award will be presented to an United to Save Humanity) for Excellence" that a ticket in the reserved section may be honorary doctor's degrees will be awarded outstanding WMU faculty or ad- today at 3 p.m. in Sangren Hall, Room mailed to them. to Fred S. Keller, Aiken, S.C., ministrative staff member during the 2303,free to the public. distinguished psychologist; Duane L. program. Warfield returned Student rewards for recently to Western after being on leave vandalism information Distinguished service award to Alavi for two years as With senseless vandalism continuing on PUSH chief of staff campus, Eric L. Vaughan, a Rochester Yousef Alavi, mathematics, has been through innovative and effective and director of Oper- freshman who is president of the selected as the first recipient of the programs, outstanding leadership in areas ations of PUSH for Associated Student Government, and university's new Distinguished Service contributing to the growth of the univer- Excellence (PUSH- Roger A. Bennett, science area and Award. sity, and service which extends the impact EXCEL), both head- Faculty Senate president, have issued a "He is being recog- of WMU and its resources into the larger quartered in Chica- joint letter to Western students imploring nized for his excep- community ," said Sharma. go. PUSH-EXCEL is them to attempt to halt vandalism on tional service to Alavi, a member of the WMU faculty the national high Warfield campus. WMU and to the since 1958, served as chairman of the school intervention strategy for increasing The letter recalls Gov. William G. larger academic committee responsible for planning Rood student motivation and responsibility Milliken's talk on campus in which he said, community," ex- Hall and Everett Tower. He established which fosters creating an atmosphere "America is in a crisis" and to pass plained . Visho B. the Department of Mathematics conducive to learning and developing a through this crisis . "we will need Sharma, social sci- colloquium program, which has brought climate of educational opportunity. character. " ence and sociology eminent mathematicians to the campus. He will talk about the role of each aspect The letter noted, "We are calling on you and chairperson of of the school community and its role in to do everything you can to reduce the the selection com- Alavi He has been co-director of three in- program development. The idea of moral reprehensible problem of vandalism on mittee, which was appointed by President ternational graph theory conferences held authority as it relates to leadership will be our campus. We aren't just talking about John T. Bernhard. at Western. He is a graduate of Michigan discussed as well as how the Rev. Jesse how vandalism costs money ..