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% , _ _ ? Fall Sports Carolina Cranking Up Days Away Culture ?page 3 ?page 161 ? page 8 GAMECOCK LXXI, No. 11 University of South Carolina Wednesday, September 2,1981 use om From Staff Reports USC's first student-faculty exchange delegation to Shanxi TTn?.n.nU.. nu: 1 ?r* ?l:_ ?-?: r uiuvci aujr in nuiiiiciii v^iiuici ten mis iiiuriiuig iiuiii Columbia Metropolitan Airport. Five students and, four faculty members will spend a full year in China studying the language and culture while pursuing individual academic interests. The 20 Chinese exchange delegates are scheduled to arrive Sept. 14 for up to two years at USC to study engineering, the sciences and health-related areas. The exchange program was developed during a January 1980 visit to USC by Chai Zemin, China's ambassador to the United States and a Shanxi Province native. Zemin returns to USC today with a six-member official delegation from Shanxi University to spend a week visiting USC's laboratories and other instructional facilities Hp also u/ill narfirinntp in in ternational studies seminars. The exchange agreement between the two universities was signed last October when a 20-member USC delegation, headed by President James Holderman, visited Shanxi Province and other sections of China. The USC participants were selected on the basis of Shanxi Province's most pressing needs, which include^'a heavy economic, medical and educational thrust," said Dr. James Kuhlman, director of the James F. Byrnes International Center and special assistant for international activities to USC President James Holderman and Chinese ambassador * || Chai Zemin met during jg| Zemin's January 1980 Jjj visit. Zemin will return preparation for the USOShanxi Univeisity stf&ti B R USC s first exchange participants were selected from over 150 applicants. They took an intensive course at USC over the summer that included Chinese language study and a review of Chinese history, politics and culture. The summer training course also included a review of American local, state and national government so the USC students will be able to answer completely and accurately questions about the United States. Dr. Hilel Salomon, a history professor and China expert who taught the crash course, and Dr. Francis Borkowski, USC's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, also are leaving for China this week for a short visit to help USC's exchange students and faculty members settle in. They also will tour Shanxi University's campus and new housing center for foreign students, as well as settle numerous details related to the continued development of the Carolina-Shanxi exchange program. The Shanxi University delegation at USC this week includes Feng Kecong, Shanxi University vice president; Wang Zhongxing, vice president of Shanxi Medical College; Yin Deyu, director of studies at Tauyuan Engineering ... IGATIONLEAV Holderman. "We were concerned about choosing students and faculty members who could contribute to the Chinese educational processes when they got there, and we wanted individuals who are mature, advanced and experienced so that we could get the relationship off to a solid start," he said. IS FOR CHINA College; and faculty members Liu Bo, Lui Kaiying and Zhao Chaoqun. USC's student participants, all from the Columbia campus, are Julian Clark of Rock Hill and Charles Haywood of Hilton rieaa, economics majors; Maryann Mursi ot uamaen, a foreign lauguage student specializing in Chinese; Marcus Keep of Hilton Head, a chemistry major; and Scott Allan Lawson of Indianapolis, Ind., a government and international studies major. Lawson will be in China for the fall semester and will be replaced second semester by Richard Walsh, a doctoral student in international studies whose specialty is China. The faculty exchange participants are Jeannette Cannon, an instructor in the department of preventive medicine and community health ot the School of Medicine, who plans to research the use of medical paraprofessionals and lay practitioners in the Chinese health care system; Dr. Rcinhold Engclmayer, a native of Austria and an associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Coastal Carolina, who plans to visit museums and archeological sites to study the paleoanthropology of China; Dr. Betty Hodges, assistant professor of education at USC-Lancaster, who plans to teach prospective English teachers in China; and Dr. Robert S. Thompson, associate professor in the Department of Government and International Studies in Columbia, who will do research on U.S.-China relations. -^' " V ' -j'^'l - 7 " ' T-'- -: :-V ' .T^ |WM * !/>"-'-I" ^v^fesx:/:o.. excnange program. . -> JOB I jjgjM?iiwBBKgra JHHMr .eSfijBBOjlDBpIS