US. exchange program available
By Stephanie Holland
Emerald Contributor
Students who enjoy meeting
new people, exploring different
parts of the United States and
learning about different
lifestyles may be interested in
participating in the 1988-89 Na
tional Student Exchange
Program.
NSEP was started in 1968. it
allows college students to at
tend school in other parts of the
United States, including the
Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico,
while paying the host schools'
resident tuitions. Students re
quest the number of terms they
wish to attend, but the max
imum length of exchange is one
year. Students may partake in
NSEP only once.
Application materials for in
terested students will be
available jan. 30 from Academic
Advising and Student Services,
and the application deadline is
Feb. 13. To participate, an ap
plicant must be an Oregon resi
dent, have at least a 2.5 grade
point average and should be a
sophomore or junior.
Although freshmen and
seniors may participate in ex
changes, sophomores and
juniors have priority. Many
freshmen have not heard of the
program and are often limited
as to which schools will accept
them. The University is selec
tive with seniors because of
graduation requirements.
According to Gwen
Kohashigawa of Academic Ad
vising and Student Services.
"Unless the senior is planning
to return to the University for a
fifth year, it is not recommend
ed that the student participate
in the program.”
By meeting people from
varied backgrounds and living
in different geographical loca
tions, "students get out of their
comfort zones and make new
friends,” Kobashigawa said.
Students who have par
ticipated in NSEP also em
phasize the importance of the
friendships made while on ex
change. Senior Tim Blair, who
spent his junior year at the
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, said "any time I want
to go back and visit, there are
people I can call. While I was
there l met a guy from OSU and
we're real good buddies now."
Sheri Konowitz, who came to
the University last year as a
senior from the UM-Amhorst,
has made many friends from
different cultural backgrounds.
On the East Coast, students of
the same nationality "all hang
out together and Americans
don't get to know them." she
said.
Both Blair and Konowitz
learned that students from op
posite parts of the United States
often know little about the rest
of the country. Konowitz found
she intimidated people because
she talked loudly and quickly,
traits common to many on the
East Coast. She also found
Oregon students "are not so
freaked out about getting a job
and being successful. It's dif
ferent in a nice way.” she said.
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River Center. The program
includes a huge tree with
5.000 to 7,000 ornaments,
each containing an in
dividual gift request from a
needy person. Volunteers
can then come and remove a
particular ornament and pro
ceed to buy the gift and
deliver it to the recipient.
The YMCA has come a
long way since its humble
beginnings. “You could
slash the “YMC" part of the
acronym and you would be
accurate,” Reames said.
Currently, the association
boasts a membership of more
than 2,500, a 25-yard swim
ming pool, four racquetball
courts, steamrooms, saunas
and one of the best weight
rooms in town.
From this description it
may seem to the casual
observer that the YMCA is no
different than other fitness
centers in town. However, it
has something that the
Oregon West and other
athletic clubs do not — a
mission statement. This
reads, in part:
The purpose of the YMCA
is to improve and positively
influence conditions which
affect the quality of life for
the people we touch — our
members, families and our
community. Emphasis is
placed on the whole person,
through programs and ac
tivities that develop and en
courage physical, mental,
spiritual and social well
being.
This definition of purpose
still is valid, according to
Eugene YMCA general direc
tor Bruce Shaw. “From tho
standpoint of what our mis
sion is and what we want to
accomplish, we’re a much
broader community service
organization."
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