Monday, April 2, 2007
India and Cuba have never been closer than they were Saturday.
Ruti Patel, Overland Park junior applies henna during Ellsworth Hall's "Around the World in 80 Minutes" Saturday afternoon. Residents had three hours to visit different countries on each floor. Patel talked about the Indian culture and the history behind henna as well. "It's been embedded in us since we were little girls," said Patel of how she learned to apply henna.
The two occupied the same building as part of “Around the World in 80 Minutes” held in Ellsworth Hall. The new program was open to all students and featured cuisine and activities from 10 foreign countries to get students involved in diversity education.
“I think it’s good for them to see other countries because not everyone has a chance to go,” said Jasmine Walthall, program and communications coordinator for Association of University Residence Halls.
Walthall, Texarkana, Texas, sophomore got the program idea from a resident adviser last year but couldn’t get funding in time.
Walthall said picking the countries was the most difficult part of planning the program. In the end, it came down to a vote by the residence hall students who chose countries such as Greece, Cuba, France, India, Switzerland, Germany, Kenya and Italy.
Each of the 10 floors in Ellsworth was host to one country and had an activity for the students to participate in. To make the event entertaining, the program pulled ideas from tourist attractions and traditions in the 10 countries.
Salsa dancing lessons were the main event for Spain on the third floor, and henna tattoos were popular for India on the fifth floor.
Ruti Patel, Overland Park junior, designed the tattoos for participants. Patel said that she was happy to help with the program since she had been drawing henna tattoos for many years.
While waiting to get a tattoo, Sara Jordan, Overland Park sophomore, said the program was a good idea for entertainment and educational purposes.
“International understanding is pretty important,” Jordan said. “There are so many international students that you never hear from.”
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International understanding is pretty important. There are so many international students that you never hear from.
-Sara Jordan, Overland Park sophomore
As a resident of McCollum, Jordan said she would like to see a similar event in her hall.
The program will be presented at a national conference in Oshkosh, Wis., to be judged on its success in educating international identity to KU students.
STA Travel sponsored the event and provided numerous prizes for students who participated. The grand prize was a $250 travel voucher, won by Clinton Dolan, Denver freshman. Dolan said his favorite floor was the ninth, which featured Japan.
Other prizes included a luggage set, portable DVD player and an iPod Nano. All gifts were picked to be travel-friendly to correlate with the program’s theme of traveling abroad.
Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblair@kansan.com.
— Edited by Sharla Shivers
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