Europe Club — a retreat
to cultures of foreign lands
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1980
Page 5
By USCHI MICHEL-HOWELL
Campus Reporter
A round table of seven students, a
lingering aroma of pizza, dark beer
and the Europe Club: Aggies from 17
» countries are meeting as they do
f each week to practice their native
languages, discuss problems and
share each others’ company.
Each of the members shares a
common struggle with University
V ' v life as visitors in a foreign country,
/ " -Vv said MehmetSahinoglu, president of
th ?. club -
. “People get together, because
they have a common element and it
EMA 2 ^=5# is easy to make contact with someone
from the same area,’’ he said.
^ To grow more accostomed to this
jia, L\$] new culture as well as different peo-
\1 \RRltt tbe ^ members of the Europe
Club get together in informal meet-
^ lipir ings, Sahinoglu said.
“The typical American is always
busy,” the statistics graduate student
from Turkey said. “I think we have to
7.45 “Th e typical American is always
9 ; 45 J busy. I think we have to take the
— —' time to get to know other people
T.mixixmcr fljj ^ we will get i to know
ourselves better,” a statistics
graduate student from Turkey
said.
Aside from the 22 American mem
bers, however, according to a study
by Sahinoglu last fall, most Texas
A&M students believe that interna-
“I found it strange that every
body said ‘hi to me on campus.
In Europe people do not readily
greet each other on the street.
That does not mean that I am
unfriendly.” — Catherine
Balandras, an entomology gra
duate student from France.
tional students have something to
offer.
His study also indicated that with
age and increasing education people
become more tolerant toward fore
ign students and women seemes to
be more comfortable than men
around them.
Catherine Balandras, an entomol-
gy graduate student from France
said she suffered from an “Aggie cul
ture shock.’’
“I found it strange that everybody
said ‘hi’ on campus,” she said. “In
Europe people do not readily greet
each other on the street, except
when it is someone you know. But
that does not mean that I am un
friendly.”
The club interests Balandras be
cause she says everybody has a diffe-
KAMU nets over $14,000
in 16 days of Festival ’80
take the time to get to know other
*•¥.4*41414, people an d we will get to know
. ^ f . s ; ourselves better.”
mor tas
Friday wasn’t a good night for the
Aggie basketball team but it brought
in dollars for KAMU-TV, Texas
A&M University’s public television
station.
With two days left in the 16-day
fund-raising Festival ’80, the tele
vised game on Channel 15 pushed
the station far past its initial goal. A
record $5,500 was raised during the
telecast bringing the total $200 over
the initial goal of $10,000.
By Sunday, the final day of the
festival, KAMU had raised a total of
over $14,000. The amount topped
the station’s previous fund-raisers.
The goal for the festival was reset
three times since the start. The
donations are tax-deductible and go
strictly to pay for both Public Broad
casting Service and local program
ming.
Americans stay apart and it is
NOR EAST!/ barc * to ^ et f ntrc> 4uced,” Norbert
Dercu of Belgium said. “It’s hard to
823-830\, bave real friends with whom to share
~fhr> problems.”
s//'*i • Dereu said he said he seldom asso-
\nAh c i ates with Americans in his leisure
^ Twenty-two Americans are also
members of the Europe Club, one of
the eight international student orga
nizations on campus. They join the
club because they are interested in
European cultures, said Woody
Smith, a modern languages graduate
student.
rent story to tell and the American
members are open to other cultures.
Most conversation at meetings is
informal and in French, English and
German only interrupted by occa
sional announcements.
Politics is a major part of the club
discussions on Wednesdays, Dereu
said.
“Americans don’t talk much about
politics the way we do, ’ Smith said.
“We talk about different ways of
organizing society,” Dereu said.
“Americans talk about Republicans
and Democrats, but I still can’t see
any difference between the two,” he
said.
Many non-Europeans are
attracted by the language tables that
the Europe Club holds each week,
said Terry Noyes, a senior in history.
“I think it’s one of the big things
that the club has to offer,” he said.
“We talk about different ways of
organizing society. Americans
talk about Republicans and
Democrats. ” — Norbert Dereu
from Belgium.
“People talk slowly and help each
other.”
Besides meeting informally at a
local pizza parlor the club has film
evenings and makes trips to cultural
ly interesting sites like an Indian re
servation or a folk festival. Yet the
most popular activity is the Wednes
day meeting, Noyes said.
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