DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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24 m Park Replaces Bowman Stumbling over drying cement with Hanna Street in upheaval, students e especially seniors - grumbled, ttBy the time they get this new park done, I will have graduated! But such grumblers did not share the architectual vision entitled Greater DePauwtt or Design for a Decade. The most recent addition to the plan was construction of the new park. affectionately nicknamed Face Fountain. It marks the end of a decade of new buildings which cost $25 million paid in full. The Park began when the old Bowman Gym was reduced to a pile of ruble and a hole in the ground last summer. The replacement is a three-acre park. The park includes a 200 by 100 foot reflecting pool, a sunken amphitheatre, the fountain, and a pedestrian plaza. In short, an Eden was created for frisbee, outdoor studying, and general relaxation. The University was not the only one doing construction in the community. The opening of Ashly Square ttmini mall also affected the campus. In addition to hiring students, the mall offered baked goods, Mexican food, ice cream and sandwiches, clothes, flowers, and haircuts. Brad Weatherbie N Dan Schwarz Orecinth Smith and the DePauw Chamber Sym- phony traveled to Austria for a winter term tour of performing and sight-seeing. tsee page 218t

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International StdentsOn Campus Brad Weatherbie Johanna did think Greencastle tended to be somewhat isolated though. ul find l don't know whats going on in the world much, she claimed. Marc found the people themselves something to adjust to. HThey're far more friendly than in Europe. People always say, 'Hi. Hello. How are you? But then sometimes you think they don't really listen. When you get friends it's hard to get through to them. Marc also pointed out DePauw's Hextremes could give a distorted view of the United States. llAmerioa is a rich land, he said. llA Trans Am when you're eighteen years old e it's incredible. In my country you get a second or third or fourth hand car if youtre lucky. I know not all America is like that, but that is the impression you get trom DePauw and Greencastle. Johanna clarified, ill know DePauw does not represent all America e it is small and only with a certain kind of people . . . Its like DePauw is a place in its ownfl Another problem that rises is the llspecial status, that a foreign student gets if he or she is here for just one year. tlTeachers don,t know what to do with me, Marc explained. llNonetheless, he says, ill don't try less hard. Incentive l Brad Weatherbie Brad Weatherbie Lynn Ashworth, Director of International Studies, shares her slides with foreign students. Hideo Sako and Maureen Van Hall found compan- ionship with fellow foreign students important. Foreign students point out their homelands on a map of Europe at an International Students Associ- ation meeting. don't need. l get it from taking interesting courses. As Anneli put it, 'lDePauw is llwhat l was looking for e a small school where one can get a good American education. And one point on which all the foreign students agreed is the familiarity they felt by having other foreign students around. J 23

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Quotes On Winter Term On Campus: Winter term is the only time when you can study whatever you want and at the same time become totally socially decadent. ttltts not like it was easier. Even though you only had one class, it was really intense. A semester worth of Spanish in one month! No way. ItWinter term illness is what we called it a when you got so bored that you felt sick. That's how some of us got at first because we were so used to being real busy. But once we got over that t'The classes were so much more focused. I took a course on female Irish writers. I never knew there were even any female Irish writers before that. Jim Morrison, Barb Harmon. Teresa Dunbar, and Andy Buroker toured the midwest to promote DePauw to prospective students in Project '83 with Dick Lyons. Here the Holiday Inn greets them. Denise Apple finishes the anthropology display that was part of her winter term class on cam- pus. Students slept overnight outside the UCC in or- der to secure spots on the 1984 winter term trips to Latin America and Haiti. The non-credit aerobics class was especially popular on campus during winter term. Lindy Boyer Off Campus: ttThe biggest thing about this yearis winter term was all the damn RED TAPE. e four hour lines to get approved by Catanese! Itl went to Russiata need I say more? Great! ttlt is really the best time to travel. Like you can do a regular interships, home, it is a good time to be with your family. but do it In Florida. Or if you do it at Chicago Politics. That was definately the best thing offered if you were interested in Polysci and especially if you were from Chicago . we went over it first on campus and then went up to Chicago. It you go abroad for a semester, you aren't required to do a winter term. That month was really good for me then to get reaoquainted with America. 25