Word: cfia
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This year, the Harvard Center For International Affairs' (CFIA) Student Council founded what organizers hope will be an ongoing US-Soviet student exchange program...
With the help of the Washington-based Citizens Exchange Council, student council officers Hyungji Park '89 and Peter H. Vrooman '88-'89 set up reciprocal visits with students at Kiev State University in the Ukraine. The officers and a CFIA faculty committee selected 12 undergraduate delegates--including Vrooman--from a pool of 120 applicants...
...students will spend two weeks at Leningrad State University discussing a variety of issues, including the political nature of the two countries, with students at the Soviet school. In November, a group of Soviets from Leningrad will travel to Harvard as part of the exchange, which members of the CFIA student council said they hope will become an annual event...
...CFIA decided to implement an exchange program after it was approached by the Citizen Exchange Committee (CEC), a national group that pairs American and Soviet universities in an attempt to put "real people here in touch with real people there," said CFIA Student Council President Hyungji Park...
Students interested in going to Leningrad must apply at the CFIA by Monday. Applicants need not be fluent in Russian, although the CFIA will choose three to four members of the team who are fluent. Park said successful applicants would be notified before Christmas...