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: »H "HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ° Q, * Serving traditional ^ I menu in celebration > v D of Persian New Year I Date: Sunday March 18 683-6661 j 1646 East 19th Ave. j Eugene, Oregon PROUD SPONSORS OF THE ISA COFFEE HOUR EVERY FRIDAY AFTERNOON Valentine’s CAMPUS TRAVEL CENTER Your full-service campus travel agency lhe official Oregon representative for Student Travel Network Mi-mlnr \Sl \ AIR • RAIL • CRUISE • TOURS CARS • HOTELS • SPECIALTY TOURS HOI Ks Mon »> INI 5:00 I in ‘HHI > INI Mid I0 IMI 5:«MI Ihnrs 10 IH» 5:INI In 10:00 4 (HI 342-3170 INTERNATIONAL AIR FARE INCREASE APRIL 1. l?n, ccUt/ts Oregon has worldwide appeal I! m;iv l'i h.nvi to helte\e .r rimes. !'ut people .kiu.iIK ionic from .ill over the t’lohe to eet ,i decree tr.-m the ! mverMtv l he following students, who .ire trom i.ir.m.iv < ontinentr .inti evtu lix.ih ', summ;iri:ed their expenen. es so Pit in terms < it I mol work, life in i upene iikI remini'i en. es of home ATOSA SALHHl, Iran Sairiu, u In i has been m t In' t nited States for 11\ r \ oars nn« , starred out .it Indiana l ’ n i \ it si t v m Bloom i net on 1 c t o 11 t r .1 n s f c r r i nt; t •1 the l nivi.-t ■■it \ i'! t Veitun. “ A friend u ho had ui .iiu nted from Oregon State said that hiinene u as very liveable, aiui I .ilw.ivs w.mtcJ to live on the West ( o;i^f, she said. "I'm an outdimrs person, m I like the nature here AnJ tire people in l upene are more open to foreigners; thev’re friendlier. “In Indiana." she added, "there was more of a elosed i ommunitv, so it was more difficult to find friends. .After she graduates in June, Salehi plans to eo to medu at sv hool and work tow ard a career as a doitot. She hopes to sta\ in the states to praitne medicine, mainh ho. a use opportunities lor Women m Iran are very limited. "Women there .ire nuu h too interior to men," she said. " I hey can’t be judges, pilots or anything that has to do with the government. Women can’t even swim in the sea with men there It you go swimming, you . an t even go with your husband ." Salehi '•aid -lie drops In the International (. offer 1 lour. lu-LI everv Indus afternoon in the International Student l ounge, bemuse "it’- a good plate for students to meet each other.' "I nlortunately, she added, "1 don t see a lot oi Amen an -indents then M.nbe tin s don t think an international toffee hour is supposed m I-, tor tlu-m, 1'ut to u . Amcru in -mJcnn in niter national. TIFFIN ARBOLEDA, Philippines— Arholeda, ;s .1 graduate undent in the 1 .' u r n a 1 1 > m si lu>o 1 . She \\ ;n given ,1 m holar-hip and a ( ■ r a d u a t e I e;K lung 1 allow ship troni 1 he l m ve r - i t v , and she started s, hool here just las! term. "1 i.'iiu’ in my unlv A mem an experience far, aiill it 'n been a nice change of par e from where i uNed to live," she --aid. " 1 lie pa, e is mui li faster t here. Arholeda hopes to heeome a working journal int and tear h at the same rime, so she i an teai h the t heor les and hack it up with what she’s learned in the field, --he saul. 1 he most vn id ad\ antage to going to si hool here over the Philippines is the amount of up todate resources available here, she said. "\\ e had a big library there, but all the books were outdated. When I was in undergraduate school (PA; to P’S), the textbooks we were us mg were from the '60s and ',0s," Arboleda said. *' I he problem is, if 1 go bai k and become a teacher, how can I teach at the same level there if we don't have the same resources’" ULI PAUL, West Germany haul, 7 7, lias boon in the state-' sttk e t It e s u m m e r of ! l)>S, worktng on his elm torat e in ph\ su s Ills 11 r st e x peri e n r e h e r e was a month-long raftinu trip down t In- ^ hand Canyon, which he said was one ot the best times of his life. "All tin- othei people on flu- 1 rip wen Aimr t a ns, and 1 reallv pot to know them, he. au'c wt were ;nv;iv from everything and everyone,' I uni said. I le -.aid that while unisersits -undents fit t ter many are at an advantage money-wise no tie has to pas tuition he likes the ta. t that hen students i an work more eh'scls with p: • >!es~. "Professors are nuuh more ta essihle here, he s.iid. “In ( iermanv it’s a lot hard>. : n tntet a. t with them, because most ot them have »e, ret.i! ies and you have to knoik on the set retars • door first to see it (the prole-'or) has time to -re you.” Paul saiei he enjoys life here more and mart every dav, and he thinks he mas stay in the states alter graduation. “People here are very open. 1 was hits hhikmg tor part of the summer from Durango, t olo., tt' hugene, and most people 1 met i'ti the wav were re,ills nice and seemed to he more open to for RICARDO GONZALEZ, Ve nezucla . (iomale: has onlv been .it the University tor si\ months, and tic said tic didn't ev en ; really t house to come here. m 1 le said he ret ei\ ed a si hoi arship lor enrollment in an ^ MBA program in Ameru a, and was told to t house .1 s s h oo1 o r an area of the country he’d like to live in. _ “So 1 asked about H.ip irJ or Mantoni, and they told me to bo realistic," ho slid " 1 hon I didn’t know w hat to ^.iv, so tho\ i Itoso tins tor me. “But 1 lo\c the people m 1 ligono,’ ho added “It's ,i nice small, liberal citv Tito MBA pto gram hero is one of the best, at least on the west . , M-t Alul !l ’• \ r: •, 11 ■ t; I,!! K i II : • l ion:.lie.: plan* to ' l\uh to \ene.uela after In minplete tin MBA proot.iin next vc ir. 11* said In: l* Interested tti entre;", eneur-hip .n a reer, hut plan* to net some expertelUe with i tabhshed . iimpauic* first "Nh t- •.■•n.l'hip i.unilv u a- ere it," hi at.I ot he host tanulv he staved with when he arrive.! n hueene. "fhes helped mi a lot, I", trijme in- and let tine me *ta\ with them t- >r a w eek IDA HliRSl, Hast Africa t lersi, .1 miphomi'tv majoring in biolo uv, viul her instt.il i pn p r e s s i o n o t Amen. i w as noth ini; like she t hmight it would he. "All IM m'cii about Ami-rii,i was ti.-m I \ . -In' explained "So I thought everything would he more glam orized, with big titles everywhere i thought life would he like you see it in the movies, so u w.i ■ very different from my expeditions Hersi, who moved here two years ago, plans to go on to medii al si hool after ei admit! >n. She wants to eventually bevotne a doctor in either Asia or Afrk a, she - an! hour oi her sisters and hrother- ate also in the l dined States studying and working, hut they are on the east roast, Hersi said She misses her family life hark home more than anything else, because she said hei mlture places more emphasis on family bonding. "We value the family very much; yye have an extended family system, -he aid At home ey ervhodv in the . .immunity knows ear h othei 11,i rlo-e knit so, setV, WlieI'e hei e ;I male ill rliv'lrllla! 1st a Ptirlt: litcloim 7^ 'PCtice The Home Of The Tertulia • International Atmosphere • International Cuisine OREGON HOSPITALITY! 854 K. 13th ■ 342-2241 Fashion with an Ethnic Flairl New rutur.il fibre ■’.( > £ \ in ru(' oiors t.itir, ririil 7(j2 i I rn Axe next u the I x> .. >' U( K6f>7 I >: !' it, M.irn ' 11> iwnsMi! ■, )■! FOLKWAYS IMPORTS CLOTHING JEWELRY » FOLK ART FROM AROUND I HE WORIC s1.00 OFF I Skylight Entree with a purchase of a soft drink. Not good with any other oiler. 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