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Oglah Smadi, 31, a Jordanian linguistics student at the University of Texas, has helped start the first mosque in Austin; he wants his fellow Muslims to have a place to pray. At Indiana University, the directory of an eleven-story building for married students reads like a Saudi Arabian telephone book. Iranian students have shouted down the Shah in several U.S. cities...
Public universities, which must take care not to turn away the children of taxpayers, emphasize that they do not hand out free educations to foreigners. Says Joe West Neal, director of the International Office at the University of Texas at Austin, which has students from some 90 countries: "A government will come to us and say, 'Here is a check for $400,000. This is for our children. They are our future.' " Private institutions have no curbs on the number of foreigners they can take. At Stanford's business school, which accepts only one in twelve applicants...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Luci Johnson Nugent, 31, younger daughter of late President Lyndon B. Johnson; from Patrick Nugent, 35, after twelve years of marriage, one son and three daughters; in Austin, Texas. The couple have been separated about a year; last November, Nugent quit his job as general manager of the Johnson family-owned radio station, KLBJ...
...played alongside Austin, Carr at guard at Notre Dame, but quit the team the year after Austin graduated because he had no one to pass...
Others look to enrollment of foreign students, especially oil-rich Middle Easterners, to supplement their student body. Fully 17% of the students at predominantly black Huston-Tillotson in Austin, Texas, are Iranian. The late arrival and slow tuition payment of an expected 150 new foreigners triggered the bankruptcy last month at Vermont's Windham...