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Husband/wife team write sci-fi book Student experiences life in Switzerland by Caret Hussey Feature Editor Frieda Wheeler helped her husband with the ‘technicalside’ of a sci-fi book by Michelle Walch Staff Writer Frieda Wheeler, Secretary for the Developmental Learning Center in Barlow Hall, just helped publish a book. “It’s a real thrill, knowing that something with his name is on the bookshelf, real exciting,” Wheeler explained. Wheeler’s husband, Scott, wrote a science fiction book call ed “Matters of Form.” While out of work, he decided to write it and his story was accepted by the second book publisher, in New York. “He has written a se quel, but they’re not sure they want to buy it. He’s revising the second and the third one is still being read. The fourth and fifth are still being worked on.” “It takes a long time,” Wheeler says of writing and sell ing a novel. “It takes six to seven months to hit the stores.” The Wheelers turned into a team of writers as she explains, “He would type a few chapters and I would retype it and correct it. It took roughly six months. “My only contribution has been the technical side of it. I have no imagination whatsoever,” Wheeler smiled. The staffs reaction has been positive, “They’ve been really nice about it, but it hasn’t made any difference...” meaning she has not been esteemed as a ‘celebrity.’ Wheeler says of her job at the college, “I’ve worked here for 16 years, and I really enjoy it.” Fulbright scholarships provide people various opportunities by Caree Hussey Feature Editor 1 ; [ i Have you ever dreamed of visiting a foreign country? Last summer, Matt Stiger fulfilled this dream and went to Switzerland. He went through a program called the Northwest Interna tional Cooperative Education Program. Stiger went to man datory meetings held in Van couver and participated in an orientation class. He also had to read reports from people who had already returned and had to make out a ten page pre departure report himself. The trip was expensive. There was a $475 fee for the program (the cost has* gone down somewhat), for finding a place for him to live and finding him a job. Air fare to and from cost $748. Stiger also had to get a Matt Stiger tells of his difficulties with the Swiss dialect. passport which cost $50 and a with spoke enough English to tell English at work, however. work permit which cost $13. me dinner was ready or we could Would he like to go back? Although he’d had a year of go to the city next week, or “I’m sort of toying with the idea German, “the first three weeks I something like that. The man, of going back as a student, that had extreme difficulty with the her husband, spoke French and would have to be through a dif dialect that they speak in German, but no English, so for ferent program, but at the mo Switzerland, they speak fast and ment it doesn’t seem feasible, it is they speak the most unbelievable expensive.” Stiger would like to ÍC mutilations of the high German... they speak the study in Switzerland, Austria or as it’s taught in the class. The Germany. most unbelievable orientation class got me familiar with the history of Switzerland, mutilations of the high 4» American Heart but it didn’t do a thing to prepare German... ” me for the dialect, and that’s what really messed me up.” Stiger had a job at a local grocery the first month I was a very close 1-800-452-9445 store and stayed with a family in mouthed person.” He did meet some people who were fluent in the area. “The woman I stayed This space provided as a public service. V 4th of JULY in DECEMBER cians who wish to participate in this cultural exchange. Com petition for Fulbright scholar ships is tough. People from all over the United States are ap plying for them. The applica tions are usually turned in in October for the following year. Once scholarships are awarded, the applications are no longer valid. One must re-apply for them every year. Kay Davis, ESL Coor- dinator/Targeted Learning Center, is currently in Panama City, Panama on a Fulbright scholarship. She is studying Spanish and ESL methods and teaching English and American Literature. “This is all over the world, it’s quite an extensive thing. It involves literally hundreds of “This is all over the people,” explained Dr. Donald Epstein, history instructor. Dr. world, it*s quite an ex Epstein received a Fulbright tensive thing. ” scholarship and spent a summer in Egypt. The Fulbright scholarships Here at CCC we have had give people opportunities to go people go to Panama, Costa to a foreign country to study Rica, China, and Egypt through and do research in many dif this program. One doesn’t ferent areas. It also gives people necessarily need to know the from other countries the chance native language of the country to come and study life in the where they wish to go. “In some United States. These scholar cases, you do have to know the ships are funded by the sale of • language and there must be U.S. properties in other coun- some sort of proof that you tries. Since converting these know it. In other cases, the funds to U.S. dollars would be seminar is conducted in English unprofitable, they are left in the and you are given the oppor country for our scholars to use. tunity to learn a little bit of the Although mainly awarded to language. Usually foreign instructors, there are other scholars havfe to know catagories of scholarships that English,” commented Dr. Eps- are awarded to artists and musi- *BIG 10% 20% 10% 10% INDEPENDENCE w BARGAINS 4?. DECEMBER 7-18 - 40% Off Sweatshirts off Children’s Books off Stuffed Animals off Hard Back Dictionarys CCC BOOKSTORE Gift with every $10.00 Purchase North End McLoughlin Hall 8 am - 5 pm M-F