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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
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