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Friday, February 25,1983 Page 4 The Lance Sharon Sharon Stanley’s Korean Semester The following is an article written by Sharon Stanley, a St. Andrews junior She and sophomore St. Artdrews stu dent Kurt Linn currently live at Presbyterian Theological Seminary and College in Seoul, Korea. Both teach English conver sation to college students. Also, they are students at Third World Leadership Center (a graduate school of ministerial degrees for Indoe- sian, African, Thai, and In dian students) located on the seminary campus. Sharon and Kurt’s other activities have included private English classes and Bible studies, and Kurt has co-directed a Korean English students’ version of the play Everymanl When the sky gets dark, the people pushing (always without apologies) along the crowded streets weave around the large carts filled with oranges, chestnuts, grapes, or pears. Candles rise up from the middle of the produce and light the carts like proud ex hibitions of the harvest past. Above, modern mixes with this history as the smiling, neon “OB Bear” announces his beer haven inside a street- side shop. In the daytime, it’s really much the same in the city, minus the candles. The carts are still there, but then they are joined by bicycles loaded six feet high with plastic shoes, or toilet paper, or yarn en route to factories where women in baloon style pants will squat to knit sweaters for sale in local out side markets for about 2000 Won ($3). Also, when the sun is high in this sky so often without clouds, walkers can see the grandfather in “Hanbob’ (traditional Korean clothes) bend a long and thinning grey beard over his cane and travel in his land fast suc- combing to Western in fluence. But still, from others on the street he seems to reap the respect his Confucian-valued culture has dictated he deserves. Right now, I can’t actually see these sights. But as I lean back in a chair on my dor mitory deck of the Presbyterian Seminary where I am working and studying this semester, 1 can see trees shed quickly their golden leaves, Korean students head for the Seminary’s clay ten nis court, crowded public Ingold Returns From Scotland and some of her Korean friends busses in the distance cross one of many bridges over Seoul’s snaky Han River, and church steeples rise up high. For nearly three months I have been in this “Land of the Morning Calm”. As my first foreign Fall has passed around me, 1 think I’ve final ly learned that my shoes must come off when I enter a home. I have learned what it is like to exit my dormitory room door in the morning and be greeted by a row of Korean backs- (1 live on a men’s floor, across from their restroom!) I’ve switched to saying “On youn ha say o!” insted of Howdy!, to friend. ‘-'^‘Cont. Page 6 De Rachewiltz Visits, Discusses Fall Term Plans Mary de Rachewiltz, poet, translator and curator of the Ezra Pound Archives at Yale, visited St. Andrews Friday, Feb. II, to talk to- students about the program at Brunnenburg castle in Ita ly that will be offered next fall term. Mary de Rachewiltz, who is the daughter of Ezra Pound has been offering similar courses for St. An drews students during the past summer, but this will be the first time she will enter tain students for a whole semester. The castle is located in Merano. Italy at the foot of tl^Italian Alps. The location has created a cross culture of Germans and Italian people that gives it an international prominence. Mary said that no less than three languages are spoken in the village. The term in Italy will give students a chance to take courses that will enhance their understanding of the diverse community. Mary will be teaching courses in the languages, writing and poetry. By COREY INGOLD This past fall semester I was a student at the Universi ty of Stirling in Scotland. The time I spent there was definitely the most enriching phase of my life not just because of the interesting people I met and the places I saw, but because I grew in a way that would have been impossible to achieve had I been in a more secure and sheltered environment. When a person leaves behind their roots, they have to stand tall on their own merit. Upon arriving at Stirling, I missed St. Andrews a great deal, but after a short while I had gained a sense of self- determination that allowed me to feel at ease in a somewhat uneasy setting. The university I attended was situated in a small valley with the Ochil Hills to the east and the southern type of the Scottish Highlands to the north and west. To say the least, the scenery was ab solutely breathtaking. Regular weekend visits were made to Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland’s two largest cities, both of which were approximately one hour away. Yet, what impressed me most was the academic approach at Stirling. Grading is done strictly by essay evaluation. The classes I took had final exams (three ^ essays on each) which were fifty percent of the grade and two essays which were each twenty-five percent. Students in Scotland could not beheve that we have quizzes and smetimes weekly papers. They prefer the pressure of fifty percent to one hundred percent examinations. As I grew accustomed to the different lifestyle there, 1 began to think of myself as a person not any different in most ways from the British students. However, every now and then something wou happen to make me realize what a different place I was encountering. For instance, 1 was once talking to an English friend and I got onto the subject of baseball greats. When he asked me who Hank Aaron and Joe D1 Maggio.were, I knew that the United States was indeed, very far across the Atlantic I would like to personally encourage St.Andrews students to take the oppor tunity to travel if you are able to do so. I picked Scotland because I am not proficient in another language and have long had a passion for Great Britain There are many places to go all qf them unique and capable of expanding your awareness as a person. You will never regret travelling, know that I sure didn’t. Mary DeRache wiltz Anne Woodson will be the should St. Andrews professor on the trip and she will be teaching classes in art and art history. Mary’s son, Walter de Rachewiltz will also be teaching in Brunnenburg. Walter, who studied at Bologna and Harvard is an authority in archeology and will teach courses in language and agro-archeology. Dean Anderson, who at tended the meeting with Mary de Rachewiltz, Anne Woodson, Ron Bayes, and Dick Prust, said that those students who are interested come by his office and receive information con cerning application pro cedures. Anderson also said that most of the financial aid packages would be offered for the trip and that some special packages could be ar ranged. February 28th is the first day that a student can picl^ up the application forms and Dean Anderson said that the applications will be judged as they come in. The last day for the applications is March 30th.
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