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...department heads have tended to treat the foreign student just like any other student, on the theory that he will thus be better integrated into the community rather than made to stand out as "different." But the foreign student soon gets into difficulty just because he is different. The usual advisorial system, which makes the student take the initiative in discussing problems with his advisor, is bound to fail. In a poll taken last year, several foreign graduate students claimed they knew nothing about an advisor. Others professed great difficulty in choosing their courses and getting oriented academically...
...abortive attempt in this direction was made last year by the Student Council. An International Activities Committee was set up to investigate the problems of the foreign student, but for several reasons, including the usual political machinations and the lack of a serious foreign student problem on the undergraduate level, the committee has been allowed to stagnate...
Across the country, football provided its usual quota of autumn excitement...
...Long Voyage Home. In Shelburne Falls, Mass., after he had raided the Shelburne Falls V.F.W. Club on six separate nights, made off with a total of $820. George H. Upton decided that his usual route to the club had become too risky, swam 400 ft. across the Deerfield River, clambered up a steep bank, found nothing else to steal in the clubhouse, spotted a dime that post officials had pasted on the wall "for the convenience of robbers." used it to call police, dejectedly swam back across the river, gave himself...
...party's latest move, the Ithaca ploy, is certainly a marvel of political duplicity. By masquerading a television campaign program by Vice-President Nixon as a press conference designed to increase collegiate interest in politics, the Republicans have furthered their interests doubly. Not only do they achieve the usual effects of ordinary television, but they also gain the advantage of seeming to dispense absolute truth, in league with the legions of education...