(From loti) Pat Uampuang. Thombi Uyeni. and Lalia Lombardo
shore moments ot humor when talking about the afternoon
sessions with the young students
J
guans have thesame kinds ol
tiling', (hat Am< fi< ans tin. he
says
[hit he usually vents middle
st hools high m hools and
i onitnunfty i enters
()Vff th« \i It-- Ills pfeseri-'
tut inns huvo i hanged for older
audiences, he says
At first. I talked about the
war. then about (hi- (slur
lions. ( astro says "Nnw, no
hotly is lhink.ii!); ahont Nit ara
■ Mi.i so | jus! talk nixiiil tin
history "
Although it s tiring at limes.
In -.ays. it's never lairing
Hie program llt.il look the
international student* out to
( reslalie Is one thill provides
speakers lor schools and rum
mu nils !■ tilers virtuallv every
dav in lane ( anility
Tin- ICSP begun in 1WH4
with .1 proposal I rum tin- Uni
VersIH In the Oregon Slate
System of Higher Education
thiit Hume International st«
(lrnts ret l ive .1 partial tuition
waiver in exchange tor ho
hours of rommunitv service .1
year
During the iwmhu m hool
year, students in ICSP corn
pleted 4,000 hours of corn mu
nitv service Thin year. 4H stu
dents from more than 40
countries nn- taking part 1-ast
term alone, 'I4(i hours were
spent meeting 27,i requests
I he amount of the waiver
makes up the difference he
tween resident and non-resi
dent tuition
Part ol the impetus for the
program vs,is a concern that
only international students
hum families and countries
with substantial firinne ial re
sources would bo able to af
ford It) study at the Universi
ty
"If our effort now at the
University is to trv and Inter
nationalize among the ways
we run do that is to have in
ternational students as learn
ing resourees," says Peter
Briggs, assistant director of
the University's Office of In
ternational Servic es
We think we're really onto
something spectacular in
terms of the teac hing method
ology he says, "and that's
what the purpose! of an inter
national education is all
about
Many universities have
speakers bureaus, but the key
to the success of this program
is its tie with finline ial aid,
Briggs says
< )n the sc ale that we're do
ing it, there s nothing c lose. '
In- says I lie (participants)
follow through because it's a
n-cjuirc-ment, not voluntary
When students are accepted
into the program, they take a
course to lam11 tari/.e them
with public speaking and the
kinds of questions Ihey might
gel
Morompi Ole Konkei, a
graduate- student from Kenya
who participated in IUSB (or
five years, now helps admin
ister it
l.lke ( astro. Ole Konkei
says it was never Ixirtng
He was a participant for so
long dial he would occasion
ally tun into middle school
students, for example, who
had seen him when they were
in grade s< hoc!
'Some of these kids said.
Yeah. I saw you at mv school
two years ago. '' Ole-Honkei
says. "and then I asked some
thing like. 'Oh, that's really
good What did I talk about?*
"And they say. You talked
about this, and you talked
about that Things like that
make me realize th.it we re
making an impat t Kids have
stopped me at Valley River
(Center), lor instance, and
said. ' Y o u w ere .it m v
school ' That's the reward
The imp.K t is out there The
children are remembering
when they see all thesecul
tural things at that early level
At that stage of honesty
and while they are still lieing
molded, when they gel ex
posed to all thesedifferent
cultures, they begirt to realize
that people have different cul
tures around the world', but
they aren't wrong; they are
|us! dliferent
Me yvas asked some interest
ing questions over years ev
erything from "Do people in
Africa drink water'" to "Mow
are children born in Aim a7"
Sometimes he got questions
adults would ys.in! to ask he
say s, but didn’t.
"They wouldn't yvant to be
seen as ignorant." he says, "so
for me there's never been a
better yvuy to actually pen
etrate and understand Ameri
can six let v than through the
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