February 11, 1954 (vol. 64, iss. 86) • Page Image 4
… of Ann Arbor on this cool autumn morning revealed noth- Sng that made you think of a desert. Nor did the friendly, open faces of the students bear any resemblance to the dry faces of Beduins and Arabs…
….PAGE FOUR ..it-1e tt tltJL -l M -. " 3 ;as: k tJ,, I . pwit i it, 1. 54 ;y THE FOREIGN STUDENT: Long Walk in a Desert (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles on the…
…' foreign student by a graduate student in journalism from Amsterdam.) By EDDY LACHMAN T WAS ONE of those beautiful warm fall days on the campus. The trees were re- splendent and the multiple colors of the…
… shirts and sweaters worn by the thousands who, laughing and talking, walked leisurely around the halls, spelt nothing but sheer happiness. On the diagonal, two of the thousand foreign students at the…
…. No camels around ei- ther except the ones you smoke. Something wrong with those students? Yes and no. They come from completely different sur- roundings; they left their friends; most of them have…
… spoken of illness that befalls every person in a foreign country. Most American students in Europe suffer from it too. The anthropologist Cora Dubois of Chicago Uni- versity says about cultural shock: "It…
… the two on the diag felt. * * * * rP{ ERE is another thing. Most of the for- eign students who are here on Fulbright or other grants are older than the American students. They find themselves put back…
… advisor on how to study. The European student is left free to come and listen or not to come and listen. He has perhaps one exam a year, consisting of a personal interview with his professor. Comprehensive…
… coeds, driving permits-appears to the for- eigner as an interference with the individu- al liberty of the student. Slowly the foreigner begins to feel that no individual feelings or utterances are…
… new faces which, friendly as they might be, seem bent rather on meeting him than knowing him. One foreign student told me: "I am used to talking deep into the night about highly intellectual affairs. I…