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University Daily Kansan
Monday. April 22,1963
Foreign Students Memories Linger
By Vinay Kothari
Soon the spring semester will be over and about 175 of 351 KU foreign students will leave KU and probably never return.
Some foreign students will travel across the United States before they go back to their own countries. Others will go directly home following completion of their studies at KU and still others will attend other schools in the United States.
BUT EACH OF THE foreign student will carry with him memories of KU forever, regardless whether the memory is bad or good.
When Miss Nilofer Ahmed of Pakistan came to KU last fall, her goal was to acquire a degree. But as she is about to complete her graduate work in journalism, her anxiety to get a degree is not the same. The day-to-day study now seems to her to have become an absorbing end in itself, she reports. The thought of leaving the university makes her very sad even though she will leave with a degree.
Sami Affy of Egypt says he will miss his many friends, Affy, who will receive a master of arts degree in political science at the end of the semester, said he has had many opportunities at KU to make friends from all over the world. As president of the International Club, he liked KU's international atmosphere.
MISS SALVA HADDAD, Lebanon graduate student, said she has become emotionally attached to KU. She considers KU her "second home." She said she will miss the casual, friendly and informal life of KU.
But, Miss Haddad said, she won't miss "American insincerity." Miss
Haddad described U.S. life as most challenging, both academically and socially.
Miss Susanna Bolstad, of Oslo Norway, graduate student, said she did not like the restrictions placed on women at KU. She said the women at KU do not have as much freedom as women students in Europe.
After living in a sorority house, Miss Bolstad did not like the sorority life.
"THE SORORITY life is sort of dull and restrictive, and the atmosphere is 'childish'," she said.
According to Miss Bolstad, the active social life at KU is the cause of poor grades of undergraduate students.
Still, all the foreign students will have many opportunities to attend several events for foreign students before their departure.
AMONG THESE activities for foreign students are the People-to-People happy hour at 12:30 p.m., Sunday at the Phi Kappa Theta house, 1120 West 11th; the People-to-People industrial tour to KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday, April 24. Several other activities like the industrial tour, happy hour, tea parties or open house and many others are being planned for the month.
There will be an Oskaloosa trip on Thursday, April 25, and a tea party at Chancellor Wescoe's home Sunday, May 11.
Several remaining International Club meetings on Saturdays will include panel discussions, social dancing, and music. The officers of the International Club for next fall will be elected May 11.
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Twenty different groups and nations displayed exhibits and an evening program of music, dancing and skits was presented.
International Festival Draws Large Crowd
The annual International Festival drew about 1000 guests last Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
Exhibits included the display of clothes, jewelry, carvings, photographs, art and printing. Slides, movies, music and dancing were used in displaying the exhibits.
P-t-P Will Visit KU Med Center
People-to-People will take an industrial tour to the Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday, April 24.
The tour which has been planned for 35 foreign and North American students, will include visits to the research laboratories, surgical rooms and several other sections of the hospital.
The bus will leave at 1 p.m. from the Kansas Union and will return before 5:30 p.m.
Students interested in joining should sign up at the P-t P-office.
Groups participating in the evening program were Africa, "From the Old to the New Frontier;" Arab Nations, "Arab Land and Its Music," Latin America, "Fantasia Musical," Cambodia, "Chhay Yam" (The Drum Song); India, "Match Is Being Arranged." Philippines, "Cari-nosa" (A Lively Group), and Afghanistan, "The Afghan Dance."
Groups represented in the exhibits include Greece, India, Korea.
Latin America, Denmark, Finland, Pakistan, the Peace Corps, People-to-People, Turkey and U.S. Indian (Haskell Institute).
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, originally scheduled to deliver the welcome address, was unable to attend the program because of the Engineering Exposition dinner.
Clark Coan, international student adviser, gave the welcome address in his place.
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