Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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We international students, living in a foreign country, undergo culture shock. The shock comes in the form of loneliness - the kind I exper- ienced on a snowy night, Jan. 1982, as I lay alone in my cold drab room, listening to Coffman 3rd reminisce and relay Christmas excitement. Shock also comes in the form of fear in realizing that one does not know enough English to do the best in class and with assignments. Some students feel confused as pacifism is stressed and Christian- ity is held in high esteem at GC, and they come from a land of fight- ing and minimum mention of Christ. Some, as I, are shocked, yet glad, to discover that America is not the heaven we thought it was. As a remedy for the shock and home-sickness, we cling together -joking, eating, planning Chow to copel and sharing. 0ur cultures are different together. Sometimes we are too different to achieve some important goals at the club level. We do not always cling together, some international students do more than others, just as some Americans prefer being with for- eign students more than others. Zilla Marshall June Suk Ming Kwan wrote the following tanka in Diagnostic Seminar: A B C D E English, you are not easy. How to start my poem? Fingers drumming, mind running. Oh, let's all write in Chinese! nter- national Student ll L, If International Student Club fabovel: Cback rowj Patricia Muganda, Martha Alemi-Selassie, Mabala Nyalugwe, Mary Jin Zhang, June Kwan, Chew Chee Teoh, Nadine Alvarenga, Zilla Marshall. fthird rowl Ruth Gunden, Mar- tine Hudicourt, Caroline Hudicourt, Nabil Ou- deh, Jenny Talim, Joseph Masemola. tsecond rowl Hanna Khoury, Stella Antonakis, Caro- line Opondo, Helen Reynolds, Lillian Asoera, Katia Peterschmitt, Jean-Claude Hudicourt, Tony Figueroa. ffront royvj Teferi Tiku, Wilson Makori, Basil Marin, Mary Asoera, Arturo Montero, Zafar Al-Talib, Abdulcadir Deria, Carol Sempira, Henock Berhanu. Hanna Khoury fabovel explains the process of obtaining a work permit to Nadina Alvarenga, while Stella Antonakis listens and Astania St. Fleur continues her stroll. K t 'tf1

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15' '. 'aff - . t Q 'A Init. Qgu , Q, nw, N 'lu '.x 544: le: . Wx, S . 135 A lk At The Hour After, a dessert theater, lvan Mast and Katie Yoder tabove, lefty wait to be seated at their table in candlelit Westlawn lounge. Jill Janzen fabovej, direc- tor, fits Todd Yoder with a bra for a scene from Shakespeare's As You Like It. Yoder plays the part of Rosalind, as a male actor would have played a woman's role in Shake- speare's day. tLeftJ Dennette Alwine, Mar- garet Owen, Eva Dell Neel, Marguerite Kenagy, Jean Herr and Chris Scherer of Goshen Student Women's Association meet for a planning session. The organization contributes a feminist perspective to cam- pus activities and programs. GSWA spon- sors discussions, particularly pertaining to women's issues, coffeehouses which feature women artists, and brings speakers to cam- pus such as Susan Schertz Moreno, commu- nity politician, and Goldie Ivory, educator. 23

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if glib at 1 as V 1 W W xv 4,1 lf efe 'flt e ' 'VL A57 7Q fi fflfq J ral Alhinese Students Maple Leaf held an interview with the fourth group of Chinese scholars to par- ticipate in the educational exchange pro- gram between the Sichuan Province Board of Education and GC. All nine scholars were present for the interview, excerpts of which appear below. ML: What's different about GC and your schools in China? Mr. Zhang: You have maybe more than 80 faculty members but we have 500 and we have nearly 2000 students. Ms. Zou: Another difference is about your dormitory. Our boys and girls always have their separate ones. But here I found it strange. ML: Yeah, it's every other floor. Ms. Zou: But how about that building where they had an open house? ML: Oh, you mean small group housing? Mr. Fu: Yes, that's something very strange for us. Mr. Wu: When I first came to this country the vast land and few people struck me the most. You see in our city there are people and people and full of people. But here on the street you cannot often meet people walking, so if you want to ask the way . . . It's hard - you have to wait and wait. Mr. Zhang: Sometimes we call them find-out people. Mr. Fu: Another thing which is different from our tradition is the way people make friends. You see here on the campus you have open houseg that's what we don't have in our college. And well, a lot of activities here are organized by the church and we don't have church. So the social activities are generally organized by the leading body of the organization in which you work. Mr. Zhang: What struck me most I think is the sense of safety Goshen people have here. It was incredible for me to know that here Goshen people do not lock the doors when they leave the house. Especially, I was told by my host family they never locked the door when they left their house. ML: As you observe us as foreigners what do we appear to care about? Mr. Fu: I don't know exactly what stu- dents talk about in private but publicly they talk about the possibility of nuclear war. ML: What's your sense about where we are on nuclear weapons? Mr. Fu: I think most people are very much concerned about it and are against nuclear war. It seems to me they are trying to campaign to urge the American govern- ment or forces in the world to come to a compromise that could stop a possible nu- clear war. Mr. Liu: There has been quite a lot of talk about nuclear disarmament, the freezeg but on the other hand nuclear weapons increase instead of decrease. As far as I know the politicians here often talk about nuclear disarmament but the military per- sonnel always ask for bigger budget for nuclear weapons. So it seems to me I am not very optimistic that there will be a nuclear freeze in the near future. But in- stead, the nuclear build-up will become bigger in both the United States and the Soviet Union. Yong gang Fu Zhong yong Jiang Zheng ze Liu Zong-en Wu Qi gang Yan Chong ding Zhang Yu do Zhang Da Zhu Ying ping Zou