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Monday, August 25. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Students encounter no hostility abroad
By ATLE BJORGE
Staff writer
Despite concerns of terrorism when they left in the spring, no KU students in study abroad programs met with hostility in Europe this summer.
"I'm glad I didn't jump off my trip for that reason," said Diane Field, a Lawrence senior who went to Britain. "The only bad point was that we ate too much. They forced five-course meals on us."
Mary Elizabeth Gwin, director of the Office of Study Abroad, said there was much alarm after the U.S. bombing of Libya in April. She said the summer study programs lost about 40
people because of the tense situation.
Only 160 KU students participated in the programs this summer, compared to 225 last summer. The University of Kansas reacted prudently compared with some institutions that had tremendous drops in the number of students, Gwin said.
students.
The office immediately called overseas about cancellation alterations to the programs, Gwin said. To her surprise, everybody answered that the concerns were unfounded, she said.
Before leaving Kansas, students were told to stay away from large crowds, U.S. embassies and to not wear clothes that identified them as
"We told students that if you are in London and something happens in Rome, call your mother anyway," Gwin said.
U. S. college students, she said.
mother anyway. Give me a
Discovering the outside world is valuable because you tend to take so much for granted in your own country, she said.
"Americans will always be naive," Gwin said. "Given the vastness of our country, we tend to be very inward in our thinking."
Jacquelyn Ainlay, Lawrence junior, said that she thought people in England and Scotland were very pro-United States and that Paris was the only place where people were having problems.
William Blue, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, said that for many of the students he travelled with it was their first trip to Europe and that they were given plenty of opportunities to compare cultures, lifestyles and food.
The program opened with a 16-day tour of Spain, then the students went to Barcelona for a month of classes, during which they lived with Spanish families, Blue said.
Gwin said that to avoid students backing out, the study abroad office was going to campaign this semester by visiting classrooms and distributing promotional material.
On Campus
The University of Kansas Baseball Team will have an organizational meeting at 4 p.m. today on the second floor of Allen Field House for people interested in trying out.
The Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction will have an organizational meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
KU Democrats will have its first meeting of the fall semester at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
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