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American Students Absent At Forum About Themselves
Foreign students more or less talked to themselves last night at the People-to-People forum on "The American College Student — First Impression."
The majority of students attending the meeting were foreign students.
PANEL MEMBERS WERE John A. Bethel, Southampton, England, graduate student; Vinay Kothari Bombay, India, junior; Luis E. Mayor, Placetas, Cuba, junior; Inga M. Safholm, Drottnringholm, Sweden, special student; and Walter S. Bogova, Tanganyika, freshman.
Bruce Whisler, Topeka junior and chairman of the P-t-P steering committee, was moderator for the panel.
Asked what he thought of American students as a whole, Mayor said, "One of the big problems is that they are somehow insincere—too sweet to be true. American hospitality as a whole can compare with hospitality anywhere in the world, but students lack a depth in personal relationship with outsiders."
Miss Safholm said, "As a whole I agree, but that might be due to the fact that American students stress social life."
SHE SAID THE WOMEN in the sorority in which she lives have been "wonderful" to her, but that things seem too "planned."
"In Sweden we have more time to find out for ourselves—here there are so many organized things," she said.
Bethel said interest in politics seems to be slight here.
"Few people attend student political meetings and there is little discussion," he said. "In Europe much more interest is shown in politics. American students appear to me to be very conservative."
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Bgoya agreed with this and said he thinks American students are wasting their freedom.
"In my country you can get kicked out of school for expressing the wrong political opinions—I've been chased out three times myself," he said.
BGOYA COMMENTED on the concept of time.
"At home when one is invited for a meal at noon, it probably means that they will begin cooking at noon," he said. "It nearly shattered my nerves to find that everything begins on time here."
Things are less hurried in India also, according to Kothari.
"At home we take time to read and to take walks with friends," he said. "Things are also much less formal here. In India we sit and listen when people are talking. Here, if you don't find something interesting, you can get up and leave—you just don't do that at home."
When the meeting was thrown open to discussion, several foreign students were eager to learn what the American students thought of them.
WHISLER SAID THAT since the
topic of the discussion was the foreign student impression of American students, and that there were few American students attending, this question should be taken up later.
During the open discussion period, Lovell (Tu) Jarvis, head of the KU chapter of P-t-P, said that the coming "America from the Outside" discussion groups will provide a chance for American and foreign students to meet on an informal basis.
He was asked to give his personal impression of foreign students.
Whisler replied that he could not give one specific impression of foreign students—"I have as many different ideas as there are foreign students on the campus," he said.
"During these meetings we can meet face-to-face and thrash out some of our different ideas and approaches to current events and social customs within our different countries," he said.
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