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Ingrid L. Ott '83 was exploring a mainland China village with a 6-ft., 2-in, red-haired friend. Her friend found a pair of shorts with a design similar to Hawaiian tourist shorts in a small shop for 25 cents, and liked them so much that he put them on immediately. When they left the shop and started walking down the street, a huge crowd of Chinese people followed them, laughing uncontrollably. Ott said that she had no idea if she or her friend was the object of ridicule...
...Ott said that experiences like this are typical during the 100-day "Semester at Sea" program. Ten Harvard students, including four this semester, have participated in this program, which sends students steambosting around the world, learning about foreign cultures...
While it may seem that the program is just an easy pleaure cruise for students who want a semester off, Ott stressed that there is work involved along the way. Students take four courses, write papers, and study for exams, just as they would at Harvard. The difference is that their classroom, unlike the hopelessly immobile Emerson or Sever Halls, moves around the world, allowing them to experience the cultures they learn about from textbooks...
...Ott says that Semester at sea was "the four most amazing months of my life," adding, "I could never have experienced this at Harvard...
...students are organizing a petition drive for the new government, Ott said. The petition must receive the signatures of at least two-thirds of the student body if it is to be approved. "I don't think there's really much chance that it won't be passed," she said, because backers have planted petition organizers in every dormitory and fraternity...