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a 5 OO ne | cove A LIE IIL J mere. institution tends to accent the differences between the Amcrioan and the foreign stedentes | : The foreign students are frequently given an opportunity to demcnatrate or manifest thoes cuetome, habits, ete, vbich the Americans consider cute, quaint or odd — internet! mal dances vith the foreign students coming in their native drees, song festes with the foreign students singing their native sangs — all of which activities vnen taken as part of 6 much larger program cen prove to be bighly instructive as well as entertaining, but when they ent ne NT OR Ce ES are sll tast there {s in terms of .« Jureign etusent ;rogram, the effect vould seen to be scrawhat less salutary, Secondly, ab those campuses where a ervat affort is made to use forelen stadents for offecazpus speaking engagenents, there is olmost vn universal tendency - te overburien these few students whose imewledge of English and ‘personalities are such that / they make a great sypeal to the groups whe cro interested in having foreign speakers. In addifion, in discussion with foreign students, I noticed that they felt that !n some caces the university planners were extracrdinarily ineensitive tc certain feelings of digiity and pride. Tor example, university groups might have taken pains to ensure that collection for: foreign students were not taken up in their presence or that the group night have had sone pricr orientation so that the questions asked the foreign guest would not be so terribly enbarrancing both for the questioner and the student. Thirdly, on those campuces with large Intarnaticnal Bouses, the foreian student program tends to center sinost exclusively in the interratiinal Zouse and although frequently these programe are very vel] maneged and vith s wide variety of intorestizg experiencee fcr the foreign and American students vho participate, the concontrat‘cn of effort emi talent vith reepect to the J House leaves almost untouched the greet bulk of the foreign student population on the caspus. . It suet be added that the foreign students alac tend to feel that the American stuients who participate in the acti- vities at the International Heuse frequently neem to be students wnor they refer to as. . ®carpur rejects." Whether thie is a juatifiable sppreciaticn of the situation or not, the forei en students seor te feel that the active student leaders in the ordinary extra-curri- culer activities progran of the university are usually not favolved with those activities which concern the foreign stuiente. agniel Relations . Of course ona of the greatest difficulties for the foreign etudents (even ee it is for American atudents) ie the means of acquiring and maintaining relatively wholesace and con- genial heterosemal relaticiships with american students. It seems that far too frequently the dating systen on the American campus is learned the hard way by the foreign atuients. In additicn, several foreign students have expressed the opinion that their failure to find dates or thelr faflure to find close American friends, either boys or girlie, is breed on some kind of race or color ;,rejudice which they seer to have detected within the student pcpuletion et a particular wiversity. An arab student, for ezenple, learned that his con- Flexion had been ascertained before he wae invited to the hove: of an american student. A Pakistani student reported hie opinion that students who “lock sore like Europeans" seen to have an easier tine in this: respect than thoee who di. nét, Oa neerly every campus that I visited, the foreign etudente with whew I epcke felt thia.to be the lesst eatisfactory sspect of their experience at ths. college or university invefer es..their extra-curricular pursuits were cencomed, Hue aie So kind sintimsts Siocent Goveranenk f Cn very few carpuses did I find on effective liaison between, for exazple,- the student ecvernrent and the foreign student adviser. In 2o#t cases, to the extent that the student covernzent nanifected either in its etructural program any. interest in the foreign atutent program on cespus, it vas via the sedius of a comsittee or a commission of a student govers-_ ment «hich alzost aniforely hed no real functional relationship to any other aspect of the : ; { Stet keke RE oP en ae: eye oo cet mmnyer: meee Beha Sy Pay eA Er A a nna