February 23, 1989
The Lance
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Barger Scholarship
Off To Slow Start
Deborah L. Kelly
Funds for the Jonathan Coleman
Barger Endowed Scholarship Fund
have reached $3,600 in total gifts with
an an additional $300 in pledges.
Barger was a sophomore at St.
Andrews when he and another stu
dent, Christina Steiger, were killed in
an automobile accident in Jan. '87.
Barger had wanted to participate in
the Brunnenburg program overseas.
This program is a semester long study
in the Italian Alps under Princess Mary
de Rachewiltz and her son, Sizzo.
The Barger Endowment will provide
student aid for the outstanding Brun
nenburg applicant in the form of a
$500 travel scholarship,^.
According to Dan Mohn, director of
development, incentives to raise
money for this fund have not been
planned at the moment, but will begin
mid-summer after the Development
Office's regular season of mailings
are over.
Mohn cites the possibility of contact
ing individuals in the region who have
an interest in the international pro
grams at St. Andrews.
Mohn noted his disappointment that
among St. Andrews' students, the
scholarship had not "taken off the way
I would have expected it." The
director felt that a reason for this is
that the scholarship" is the sort of
thing that graduates would take more
of an interest in."
The monetary goal to be reached
before the fund can be activated is
$10,000.
Donations can be made to The
Barger Fund c/o Office of Develop
ment.
Jonathan Coleman Barger
Encounter with Another Culture: India
Eric Eubank
During the month of Januaiy, while
the majority of St. Andrews students
remained on campus, a large number
of students spent their winter terms
overseas. In 1989, St. Andrews
offered winter term courses in India,
Switzerland. Venezuala, and the
United Kingdom. These courses give
the members of the St. Andrews
community an unusually open oppor
tunity to experience situations not
commonly found in the United States.
It is the goal of the Lance to eventually
print articles on all four winter term
study-tours. If you traveled abroad
during winter term, and you would like
to help with this project, then leave a
message at the Lance office. VJe
begin our tour of the winter term
abroad courses with India.
Encounter With Another Culture.
India, othenwise known as 'You Can
Say No Tours '89’, left the U.S. on the
27th of December for New Delhi, India
via Amsterdam. The group included
17 SA students, 1 SA graduate
assistant (Kris Deal class of 88),
Professor Neal Bushoven and his
niece, and Ellen Birrell, an instmctorof
photography from California.
The group landed in New Delhi,
India's capital, to become accustomed
to India's unique culture. Neal initiated
us to India with what he calls 'The
Plunge'. In short, Kris and he would
lead our jet-lagged bodies (we had
been in India for four hours), into the
heart of Old Delhi, and leave us there.
Our mission was to find the way back
to the hotel, and more importantly to
come to grips with both our bodies,
Tnd the different culture at the same
time You could call it an effective
means of shock therapy, and it
worked. We recovered well enough in
the next few days to see '"of o*
Delhi's famous (and not so famous)
sights. In our assorted wandenngs
(we usually traveled in small groups),
we managed to see the Ra) Ghat (a
memorial to M.K. Gandhi) the Red
Fort (a Moghul stronghold), and
numerous other historical or religous
^'?JSa is such a large country that to
see it properly a large amount of travel
becomes necessary. We traveled to
Jaipur by Video-Coach. This is an
Indian term that when translated to
English means "living %#*@"- This is
because of disasterous combination
of Indian highways, and an extremely
loud Hindi movie that is played during
most of the trip.
Jaipur taught the group about fnendly
! Indian merchants, who never seemed
to want to sell us anything, but always
did The group also visited Agra,
home of the Taj Mahal, and the Agra
marble works. The Taj is an incredibly
beautiful monument, a wori that will
never leave the mind.
Eleven million people ride the Indian
railways everyday, and for several
days we joined that group. The trains
aren't bad (in 2nd class they are rather
nice), but they take a long time to
travel far distances. We rode the
length of the Indian sub-continent
twice (2 days each way), and the
difference between North and South is
'ISmore relaxing in Souhlndla,
and the entire group enjoyed Mysore
and Mahablipuram. Mysore was the
home of the Maharajah's palace,
Chamundi Hill (and its 1000 steps
and the bazaar. Most of the India
clothing, incense, and Pf
the group bought came from Mysore-
Mahablipuram contained a beautifu
beach on the Bay of Bengal, the
world's largest bas relief (statues
carved into the face of a rock), and the
under ten dollar kjbster dinner!
India was a tremendous experience
that will last in memory for a lifetirro.
It is fortunate that St. Andrews can
offer experiences such as
the other winter term courses _ To not
take advantage of them would be a
tragic waste.