Page 6 University Daily Kansan, September 14, 1983 Foreign students experience extra stress By DONNA WOODS Staff Renorter Full-time students typically face academic, social and economic problems that create anxiety and stress during their college careers. That stress and anxiety can be multiplied for foreign students. Diane Stewart, assistant director of Foreign Student Services, said that foreign students often experienced excitement, depression, anger and autonomy before finally reaching a feeling of independence. The hardest time for most new foreign students, she said, is between the third and sixth months after their arrival. The excitement hurries years off, and feelings of homeiness and depression begin to appear. "Once they get through that initial eight to 12 months, they're okay," Stewart said. "Some never make it." TO ILEPH FOREIGN students get through that period, Foreign Student Services plans to conduct seminars to prepare foreign students for special problems of foreign students. Betty Soppela, director of the Applied English Center, said foreign students often are accused of plagiarism when they write class papers. She said that in non-Western countries, the methods for documenting outside information often are different than American methods of documentation. "American teachers who don't know that are very critical," Soppelsa said "Some consider it a form of cheating." STEWART SAID OVERCOMING language barriers was also a common problem. "These students are very intelligent, often the cream of the crop," she said. "It's very frustrating for them not to be able to make themselves understood." Depression, financial difficulties created by their countries' political situations and other non-academic problems affect the academic performance of foreign students as well. Stewart said. Rather than trying to work out solutions with foreign students, Stewart said, professors often recommend that students who are having problems drop What faculty members don't realize, she said, is that an undergraduate foreign student must be enrolled for 12 credit hours. Failing a class or enrolling for less than 12 hours could lead to deportation, Stewart said. TO HELP FOREIGN students deal with the tensions of living abroad, the Foreign Student Services office, 112 Strong Hall, is making a slide show depicting the emotional stages foreign students should be prepared to go through. Randa Dubnick, advising coordinator for the office of academic affairs, said a network of faculty members was used to work with international students. "This network does not supplant regular academic advising, but these students, like all other students, may choose an advisor with whom they have particular rapport or a common intellectual interest," she said. 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