University Daily Kansan. December 8, 1981
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Foreign students weigh options; Christmas trips home are costly
Edwin Acoba, Guirba Nueba Ecacija,
Phillipines. planes to
study the environment.
However, Angela Ramiolo, Pazia, Italy, graduate student, said she did not know where she would be, but knew she would not be at home.
Some students go skating, some go south to soak up the rays, and many go home. But some foreign students don't have that many options for winter break.
For many foreign students at the University of Kansas, going home for winter break is just too expensive, too far away, does not have any religious service, or, as in the case of Mohamed li. Tehran, graduate student, just impossible.
Iranian students cannot go home for any breaks because the United States will not issue an I-20, the immigration form needed to enter Iran. The student is still classified as a student.
BUT IRANIAN and other foreign students do have options to going home.
"Iranian students don't go home—they can't get back," Diana Stewart, assistant director of Foreign Student Services, said. BUT IRIANIAN and other foreign
Some foreign students follow the example of their American counterparts in Europe.
Christine Moreth, Bad Duerkheim, West Germany, graduate student, said she was going to go home with another girl—to Jamaica.
"I don't think the trip, except for the flight, will be very expensive," she said. "I won't be spending any money except for transportation."
Acoba said he would be driving with some American friends who are going to see him.
Another way for foreign students to save money on travel expenses is to stay in a city.
Foreign students may be able to stay in their residence halls, but at least 50 students must remain for a hall to stay open, according to Mark Denke, assistant director of the Office of Residential Programs.
Students who stay over the break must pay $9 per night and meals are not served. Denke said the cost of keeping the hall open was covered by the 50 paying $9.
Foreign students can go to Edmonds, Wash., Huntington, W. Va., Jacksonville, Fla., or many other cities in programs by church groups around the country.
"Any residence hall could stay open if there were enough students who wanted to stay." Denke said. "Usually just one student, or enough people staying to keep it open."
Another program offered nationally is called Vista.
Two programs, Christmas International House, a Presbyterian organization, and Friendship International House, a Baptist organization, have churches in different parts of the country whose parishioners live in their homes over the winter break.
In this program, a student with a car, or access to transportation, makes arrangements to stay with a family or in a YWCA or YMCA.
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"This way the students get an idea of that holidays like in America," she said. "Shares can go up."
And still other foreign students do go home for the holidays.
"Most of the students who go home are from South America or Europe—countries in the Mediterranean."
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