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Academic standing, hospitality
draw international student body
Adjusting to school can be challenging
By Jiff in Arboleda
Emerald Contributor
Maria ijiaw is a Vapi from
the island of Yap. part of the
federated States of Mic ronesia
loc ated stnar k in the middle of
the I’ac die < )< can
Leave came to the University
two years ago to study husi
ness She harl heard about the
sc hool from a woman from l ex
as she met when she worked
fot the Mic ronesian govern
ment .liter high school
"When this lady learned that
I was thinking of studying in
the I S, she recommended
UO." La.iw said "She had
been here and she had i ome to
Im e Lugene
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international students who will
be attending the I'niversitv this
fall between -4(1(1 and 500 of
them will he here for the first
time
International students make
up about H percent of the 1'iii
versitv student population
Tom Mills direi lor of Interna
tional Services, said he believes
it is tile school s good academii
reputation specifically its
standing as one of the top 20
reseati li universifies in the
i ountn . that attrai ts a large
number of students from
abroad
lie said he also believes that
the t 'ni\ ersitv's lor alion in a
state as environmentally con
si nms as Oregon adds a lot to
its attrai tiveness to internation
a I students
"In |apan Oregon is per
( eived to lie a 'fresh' state, and
the I'nnersitx benefits from
this reputation." Mills said
International students also
i nine to a ppm iate the rei ep
liveness ot the Pilgeue Spring
lield ( onimunitv to people from
different countries and‘cul
tures
I eresita Knmellini is a < ol
lege teacher from Panama on
rolled in the < linii al psvcholo
g\ graduate program She s.iid
she finds the people in laigeno
more open to international stn
dents like her than are people
in bigger i ities stn h as New
York
bigger i ities have a lot of
other things to think about, so
tor them, international students
might he no big deal." she
said.
Hut international students
have some problems to contend
with, too They have more ad
justments to make than Ameri
can students.
"In the beginning, every
thing was hard." said Lilliana
Sancho, a Costa Rican t.iking
her graduate studies in oompu
ter si nun e education ''You
don't know the people, the Ian
guage. the culture You come
here used to a different way of
life."
Language differences can he
a big obstai le to hurdle, as San
i ho found out when she arrived
List year She learned Knglish
in (iosta Rica and attended a
si\ week Knglish course in
New York before coming to Ku
gene full she still had some
difficulty during her lust tew
months
You |nsi gel used to the Ian
guage after you do everything
in Knglish, ' she said.
Kamellini also pointed out
that at the start some cultural
different es made tier feel out of
place
People from Latin America
ai e friendly in a d i ft ere ill
w a\." she said "I lent in the
l' S . sometimes you talk to
somebody one day then the
next cfa\ they might not talk to
you, perhaps bet auso they .ire
busy
"When 1 stopped thinking
that they did not yvant to speak
with me I felt better
Culinary differences can be a
problem, too Iaiarv did not eat
broccoli yy lien she fust arrived
here, "because it reminded me
of a certain sea animal lb.it we
have bat k home, " she said, but
she has suit e learned to like the
vegetable.
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