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(EDITOR'S NOTE: Eeles Landstrom, caught the %ye ff higan's tray- return to Finland upon gradua- American people are interested in
In, iiean Nationa pole v nit rea elling track coach Don Canham. tion and go into his father's busi- reports from these countries.
pio, is one of the many represents-to n oit i ahr ui
tives from foreign countries who have While on one of his trips abroad, ness. He is quite frank about Landstrom finds this country
reached great skill in their fields. Canham offered Landstrom the wanting to study business in very much to his liking, and has
Somewhat of a public personality, chance to come to Michigan if a America. He says plainly, "When persuaded two of his trackmen
Landstom ntlhas t smarked inter scholarship could be arranged.youe in business the object is friends from Finland to come over
found to be a characteristic of foreign Landtrom says he jumped at the to make a lot of money, and what here to study If the asange-
students on campus.) chance, and the scholarship did better place to learn this than in ments can be made, they will be
come through. America. You Americans do it so over," Landstrom says.
By JIM BAAD Now Landstrom is here and well,-
ready to pole vault for Canham's
THE number one athlete on cam- defending Big Ten champions as In addition to his athletic skill
pus from this side of the At- sefendingeBis Tenicha.pBogsTe and, business studies, Landstrom
pus ~~~~soon as he is eligible, Big Tendaleinouais.H re- 4
lantic is very likely Ron Kramer. iules require one yer's residence sdabbles journaism. He regu-
But the European group at the before varsity competition. lay writes articles for Finnishul
University points to Eeles Land- magazines, mostly on his impres-
Strom as its representative for ANDSTROM eorked out in tse sions of American sports and his .
this exclusive title. field house last spring, but said life at the university. He is very
Landstrom, a tall, powerfully that he had some trouble reactin" much intecesfed in writing these
built pole-vaulter from Finland not the height le should have. e romparisons of life in the two
only is his country's raonal seicms to thinl now, however tha countries.ts
Champion, but holds the Eurl;opean the troublews caused by emo- He has travelled all over Europe tesle.Te a ob fi
NationBe pilovallt oirseEusotheee hemsclves. Thcy had to be elfi-
aicnon, pboleulie caice tional roblm ss e He had a girl to track meets, and has been im-
Nis.1pl 'iiheath'ln,1proln deli ilcent slid they had to psoduce to
European record of 14 49"- viisng for him in Finlnd and ELES LANDSTROM vited to appear behind the iron
The Finnish people think so much of his concentration was on ... a great desire realized curtain many times. He has vis- to rely on.
Much of his agility that a Fin- her and not on goingover the cross ited, competed in, and has many -
nish national magazine featured bar. dam who was the first to make it), friends in Hunsary, Czechoslova- "They started a unique tradi-
a two-pce tribute to Landstrom He ivnt scie to Finland over he merely pated his stomach and kia, and Rumania. tion-nd fsdcy you can see an
and hi;rs:ife when teliy left Fin- the s is. s1 ir and mar- said "Too fat now. I'll have to He has even been invited to end product of this tradition in
land for Ann Arb i iifail. r iedhe t a y i Ike off a little of this, and thei ,compete in Moscow but turned the American student. He can
cc fc I l s 5 fe tis 1c " A"iown the chance, because, as he hold down a job, participate in
L dtomlo.i y"IhItfheplace extra-curricular activities, and at
-OTION Is ii -kill le Is i IC ills i555filld Linid m laiikif anylis ' o il hauls, ite ' til.he 1same time, educate himself."
recli his of ci c I - 0fat.-butiin£0kil u1 eiili lsto Despite the language balDer. The newer foreign students nod
strom's ri- di' lii"Itsi-do dnhik' i it s a 11el si 11 s : Landstrom waits to write in Am- their heads again. "Yes, that is
turity to f nely in ai Assiericof e i14' 9ii d.iust a few xa pou a ill erica about the people iii their so. That is right," From what they
university. Akech it cId his a. Iaset a ' cut down our jump."' life in the Ison Curtain countries. know of history they all agree
As Europc's toipale vaulter. h lie m ical icihI i 15 I Becaue of the great asmount of with Salah,
attracted much ietion ci trick fclc hus 5,r hy snlv Si s AJORING in husiness ac i te- le',ture Ie has see sover hese
and field imcs. es d e nd escly meni, incldi' Cioielisis 'am-' frison, L-ndstrom plais to on the subject, he believes the
YES, the American student is a
wonderful animal. They all
agree. But there is something
about him that is disturbing to
them. None of the never foreign
students nor many of the older
ones can put their fingers on it.
"Nobody seems to laugh," says
John Lagonico, a Business Ad-
ministration student from Spar-
ta, Greece, who has been here for
a scant six weeks. "You are all so
serious. So staid. Nobody seems to
want to take a chance and do
anything different."
Jean-Pierre Coste, newly ar-
rived from Orange, France notes a
- > certain restraint in the way Amer-
ican students talk and act.
Solveiga Aizinas, a blonde from
Latvia, has been here five years
and has an American husband. She
too, speaks of a certain restraint
on the part of American students,
"So many people seem to be bot-
tled up inside of themselves here.
Even at so happy an occasion as
a party few people seem ever to
come out of their shells. It is al-
most as if they are afraid."
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PERHAPS Renate Quastler, a
Hungarian who has been here
four years, sums it up best. "Ev-
erybody is posing. I mean they are
nice and friendly, but they are
not really being themselves. They
are afraid, you see, and worried.
"They are so very worried about
doing something wrong. 'Should'
is such an important word in their
vocabularies. They are so con-
scious of what they should be do-
ing, of how they should be acting.
They are constantly criticizing
themselves.
"Take for example this pep ral-
ly disturbance and how everybody
was talking about it. Why, in Eu-
rope, nobody would have given it
a second thought. So what if a
group of students was letting off
some steam. Everybody has to
once in a while. And nobody
would have called them 'imma-
ture'. Nobody would have even
thought about calling them 'im-
mature.'"
YOU GULP and stop to think
about yourself for a while.
You wonder.
Then you hear the soft soothing
voice of a girl from Germany:
"Well, after all, we are all still so
young. We are still changing-and
probably for the better,"
You nod. The foreign students
agree. You stand quietly, listen-
ing to their voices. "A warm,
friendly guy, efficient and hard-
working, a little mixed up, but
bound to get better."
So this is what they think. So
this is what they see, from the
outside, looking in.
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