Monday, October 23, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Holiday event enriching for international students
By Rob Pazell
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
By Rob Pazell
International students can experience American traditions off campus by participating in the Betty Grimwold Thanksgiving Homestay.
Moussa Sissoko, new director of the program and a 1988 participant, said the homestay cleared up his perception about America when he stayed in a rural town.
"It was really great for me because I had no idea of America out of the university setting." Moussa said. "It not only skyscrapers of New York and Chicago but rural people who have the same interests."
The program allows first-year international students to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with host families in urban, rural or Lawrence areas. Student Senate passed a bill naming the program after Betty Grimwild, whose family started the program in 1945. She died earlier this year.
Students who signed up at orientation will receive an invitation by mail, but International Student Services also sends e-mails to all students eligible for the program.
Sissoko said students filled out applications selecting an urban, rural or Lawrence area family. They also choose to either stay just for the Thanksgiving evening or for the entire holiday weekend. Families fill out family data sheets listing preferences, if any, on students and the duration of the stay. Students will be matched with the families after all applications have been turned in. The deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 1.
Angelina Bezrukova, Fulbright visiting scholar
from Abakan, Russia, said she wanted to find out how people lived in America.
"Its an opportunity to go and see something else," Bezrukova said. "I'm very interested in relations between parents and children, families and communities, other people's lives. Not just students."
Eula Mae Goodfellow and her husband Don, of Lyons, have been hosts for students in the program twice when their children were growing up and will participate again this year.
"Now that we have grandkids around, we thought that it would be fun for them to experience an international person." Goodfellow said.
She said the student would go with them to family dinner for Thanksgiving and spend the weekend sightseeing. The Goodfellows live on a farm 30 miles from the Cosmosphere, a space museum in Hutchinson, and two miles from the Santa Fe Trail Museum.
"We like to show them the history of the Indian settlement." Goodfellow said. "They have a grass hut there which can show them how the Indians lived." Goodfellow also invites students to their small country church.
"We want to let them see how we live," Goodfellow said. "We also like to have them go to church."
Sissoko said the homestay worked well because it was a cultural exchange.
"It is the essence to provide international students with the opportunity to experience American culture," Sissoko said. "Families share the opportunity to host an international student."
— Jason Elliott contributed to this story
— Edited by Erin McDaniel
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Options which Sally Puleo, coordinator of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, said were being limited by Lawrence doctors' refusal to prescribe the pill.
Puleo, St. Charles, III, senior, said when the pill was first approved, she thought it would give women more options and make abortion more accessible. She said the reason so many doctors would not provide the pill was a direct result of the amount of harassment abortion doctors have received.
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wallisch said the FDA was overlooking the pill's many dangers and a limited number of prescription sites might help limit the number of RU-486 induced abortions.
"It will be safer for them not to have the option readily available," he said. "It will give them more time to think about it."
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