Five to study in Moscow
For most students, studying
abroad usually means strolling
along the sunny streets of Mex
ico surrounded by “mariachi”
music, or maybe sampling pas
tries in a French restaurant with
a view of the Eiffel Tower in the
window
But for five University
students, study abroad next fall
will mean glimpses of
Byzantine-style buildings, and
Muscovites in black fur hats
bustling through a snow
covered Red Square
The five students, Kurt Engel
mann, Carolyn Zeller, John
Cooney, Kris Lou, and Charlene
Bell, were among 34 students
selected from across the nation
to study during the 1982 fall
semester at the Pushkin Insti
tute in Moscow
The program is one of the two
major Soviet-study programs
offered to North American un
dergraduate students, and is
sponsored by the American
Council of Teachers of Russian
The students will study the
Russian language, political sy
stem, and Soviet culture at the
institute from Sept 7 to Dec. 18
Classes are held five days a
week with an additional day set
aside during the week for ex
cursions to Leningrad, Tallin,
and other points of interest in
the Soviet Union.
Students from all over the
world will study at the institute
and be taught by Soviet faculty
who speak only Russian in
class. In fact, most of the faculty
at the institute don't know Eng
lish
Each applicant to the pro
Breaking the stereotypes
gram must have at least two
years of college Russian. After
that, an applicant submits an
essay in Russian, as well as one
in English, then the student
must pass a two and a half hour
exam on the Russian language
which is administered by ACTR
officials.
The lengthy application
process is necessary to ensure
the best students are selected
and it is required by the people
who fund the scholarships, says
Russian Prof John Beebe
As a member of the Board of
Directors of ACTR, Beebe
receives regular progress
reports on Oregon students at
tending the Pushkin Institute.
Beebe says University students
have consistently placed in the
upper 25 percent among the
American contingent on ap
plication scores. Beebe also
noted that since the University
first participated in the ACTR
program just two years ago. the
University has placed at least
one student each term at the
institute.
Fruim Yurevich, instructor of
advanced Russian, feels the
University’s outstanding
placement record at the Mos
cow institute has helped to
make the Univer'ity’s students
"more visible’and "nationally
competitive" for Soviet study
abroad programs.
Because of that, it isn’t sur
prising to Yurevich that
students from the University’s
Russian program, considered
“modest" by some standards,
are able to hold their own at the
Moscow institute while compet
ing with students from such
prestigious institutions as. Har
vard, Cornell University, Bryn
Mawr, and Northwestern
University.
Yurevich has seen six of the
seven students who started this
year in his fourth-year Russian
class go on to either one of the
nation’s two major Soviet study
programs in Leningrad or Mos
cow. Not all of the students have
been Russian majors. Yurevich
finds that although the job mar
ket is slim at best for Russian
majors, many students find that
a command of the Russian lan
guage is a definite career asset
Kurt Engelmann, a recent
graduate with a B.A. in general
history, is one of Yurevich’s
fourth-year Russian students
helping to “disprove the myth”
of the difficult Russian lan
guage.
As he reflected on his up
coming trip to Moscow, Engel
mann remarked, "I’m looking
forward to the trip because
since we were young Americans
have been given the ‘1984’
stereotype of the Soviets as
brainwashed and propagan
dized people. I’m interested in
knowing how true these stereo
types are, while at the same
time, becoming fluent in the
language."
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says "It appears to be good
legislation and the faculty is
responding to it," Graham adds.
In between the committee
appointments and the climax of
the dead week proposal effort,
SUAB researched the effect that
changes in curriculum core
clusters would have and started
its lobbying effort, Prothe says
Soring term has been
"wrapped around elections"
but the Board still managed to
discuss at length campus park
ing problems and a proposed
Lane Transit District bus pass,
and to distribute a survey on the
"LTD proposal."
As for this summer, Graham
says that most Board members
will be gone and that SUAB ac
tivity will be minimal
Dan Allen. SUAB's new
chairer who will be in Europe
this summer, says he is "not
going to do anything drastically
different” than this year's SUAB
leadership. He does, however,
plan to promote "cohesive
ness” and "try to keep the en
ergy going" so that members
attend a high percentage of
SUAB. University Senate and
Assembly, and faculty-student
committee meetings.
Allen appears optimistic
about the projects that the
Board can and will undertake.
"Its primary source of power
is the sheer number — having 18
members,” he says
Next year’s board will lobby in
the Legislature and work with
the ASUO Executive and
Student University Relations
Council in such efforts, contin
ue to work with the administra
tion on on-campus problems
and projects, and work with the
Office of Student Advocacy.
"The more we do, the more
people will know about SUAB,"
Allen adds
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