Word: okonjo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural difference with which foreign students have to deal while they are here lies in the ways they make friends here and at home. "Here, you meet someone in class, you talk for ten minutes, then you see them the next day and they pass right by you," Ngozi Okonjo '76, from Nigeria, says. "At home, you see someone and you stop to talk." It is a difference, foreign students say, that takes a while to notice. Once they do, however, they find it hard to ignore...
Students from the Third World who come here to study often complain that very few of the courses offered here have any relevance to their lives at home. Okonjo points out that in her concentration, Economics, there is a grand total of one course on developing Africa, and that isn't even being offered this year. Nimgade says it is only since she came here and faced Harvard's lack of concern for Third World problems that she really began to feel she came from a less-developed country. It's understandable that the curriculum is geared to American needs...
...have been here a few years find they get to know other foreign students better as their enthusiasm toward Harvard begins to fade. While they all say they have American friends, many of them say they find they turn to other foreign students when they are most unhappy. Ishikawa, Okonjo, Nosrat-Mozaffari and several other foreign students tried last year to set up an international students' organization, but were unable to get the project off the ground for lack of funds. "Some people say it's bad for foreign students to stay together, since they should get to know Americans...
...find Harvard all that new--their backgrounds have usually prepared them for American culture. They find ways of dealing with the minor inconveniences; the larger ones--the ones that go deeper than seasoning--they live with, as an unavoidable part of choosing to go overseas.CrimsonKay J. MatschullatNGOZI OKONJO...
...limited menu offered by Harvard food services, has understandably caused problems for foreign students who have not yet adjusted to American institutional cooking. Ngozo Okonjo, a Nigerian who lives in Dunster, complains that most of the time she "can't eat the stuff." As a result, Okonjo says, she's been to the dining hall only six times this semester--and then only because her roommates reported that the menu included hamburgers, which she'll eat seasoned with butter and pepper...