Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Wabash College has been admitting a limited number of foreign students yearly, and the total of these students at all school levels has not so far exceeded 20. For example, this year we have 16 foreign students and most are enrolled on the regular or independent student basis and two are admitted on the special or exchanged student status. Most of us have been receiving various forms of financial aids from the school and some of us have been working part- time on or off campus in order to finance our educational expenses. I do find Wabash College an institution of high academic standing. But more importantly, I also find myself less and less adaptable to its monotonous and lifeless form of syste- matic learning. I find myself becoming indifferent to the new knowledge presented in such forms and day by day I begin to drag my aimless and restless mind under its academic pressure and stress; I become more like a machine that educated human! In many humane aspects, I find myself degenerating and beginning to withdraw my own ideology but to learn avoiding any forms of responsibility. Now, let me get back to the ForSA aspects. The increase in the number of the independent foreign students has led us to a strong feeling that an association established within this institution is essential. Thus, with the help of the Dean of Students and the Foreign Student Advisor, the present ForSA was eventually shaped up at the beginning of this year. Although some unavoidable in- ternal disorders might be expected, the ForSA has since been kept as a unified body in this community.

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“A revival of fun and games” is how Dean Moore described this year on the Wabash campus ... He should know ... no one else is called out at any hour of the day or night “to go out and calm the crowds” ... Better the Dean than the C’ville police .. Right?! ... “Fun and Games”’ is ‘Bash language for water fights, egg and or paint throwing, road trips and an unknown number of architectural modifications and ‘‘borrowed”’ items. “Good, clean fun!” says Moore. Inter-fraternity rivalry has returned at a level exceeding anything seen here in the last ten years. Wabash men are be- ginning to loosen up again after a few tense years, and the change seen in inter- fraternity rivalry is refl ected throughout campus life in a revival of old traditions. 27

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One may expect in a multinational organization such as the ForSA, control of various ideas, interests and respects generated from many different national, religious, cultural and educational backgrounds has been very difficult to achieve. Fortunately, for our efficient Executive Committee, not only have the problems been ironed out, but we have also gone quite a long way to accomplish the many central aims of this association. Also, with the excellent co-operative spirits of our faithful members, the success of maintaining peace and order in the present and future ForSA shall come as no surprise. This success shall also be attributed to the Student Senate, without whose genero- sity and trust, we would have been tremendously handicap- ped in our activities and financial aspects. It is our belief and also our personal experiences that we as foreigners can never segregate ourselves or merely live by ourselves in any other foreign lands. But we must neutralize ourselves in order to be able to create together with local residents a more homely atmosphere in their community. It is our hopeful wish that we, the foreign stu- dents of multinationalities and cultures, will foster closer brotherhood among ourselves and promote our respective activities in this community at least during our temporary SLAY, at Wabash College. hee