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—foreign students a boon? United Press International INEW YORK — Wealthy foreign itudents, especially those from the 'eloping countries, look like a en-sent solution to many Amer- ip colleges and universities beset /the financial problem of shrinking illments. But Dr. Frank Welch, president incoln Memorial University at ogate, Tenn., warns his fellow idents against hasty mass mar- . „ . rung of their schools abroad just to leciahy m!; 0 • : it revenue. “It won’t work,” he said. “It will statemettifsd to scholastic, social and political HWaches and possibly even to cam- 1 to ilMmtP v i°l ence ’' conomicre' conce des that running a h projp college increasingly is more i actions"If ruIin ' n *’ a ^ usiness — y° u have ’ I keep building up sales volume, ,e. recruiting students, protitabitpijg foreign student market is itious retot^y t 0cu lti va te, perhaps too easy,” cars and to “because so many of the (ireigners want good business ler the goyjfces and even small American ifflictingtl!j|eges can provide more of those lan anything Europe can offer.” ivity, exca ^clch has nothing against recruit- industrvwJ forei 8 n students P er se - He is imnnrtpd tPg it himself, mainly in Taiwan — obedealliT^ * ias an a ff i hation with a women’s college there — and Japan, and he thinks 75 percent of Amer ica’s colleges and universities will be forced to do it within three years. But he said LMU has had a few bad experiences with foreign stu dents that convinced him recruiting and keeping them in school demands careful planning, much selectivity and a high degree of cooperation be tween the school and the people of the local community. “We had a couple of rich Iranians who expected LMU professors to kow-tow to them because of their social position the way teachers poss ibly did in their homeland,” Welch said. “They didn’t bother to learn English well and were insulted when they got failing grades in consequ ence.” Then there was the unfortunate attitude of some rich students from one of the new African republics. The hardworking American blacks who make up 5 percent of the East Tennessee mountain school’s stu dent body found them arrogant and condescending. There were some rough moments. Welch found that having a sub stantial number of foreign students raises problems that should be plan ned for. They often don’t like Amer ican food or dormitory rules. They have no place to go on holidays and sometimes they show a precon ceived hostility to everything Amer ican that prevents them from being accepted either on campus or in the community. There are financial frauds; false claims by students of having scholar ship grants from their governments back home, and some of the govern ments don’t pay the college bills they have agreed to pay just out of bureaucratic incompetence. All this leads Welch to suspect that those colleges which are considering recruiting 20 to 25 percent of their student bodies abroad are asking for serious trouble. “I think 5 percent is about the safe top limit,” he said. “You can’t take care of the linguistic, living and other special needs of a higher percen tage.” He also concluded that the small college is unwise to recruit or even accept many students from countries whose governments and societies are unfriendly to the United States. “If a foreign student has an anti- American bias, college life in Amer ica is more likely to reinforce that bias than to dissipate it,” he said. THE BATTALION Page 13 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1980 Soviets accused of milking resources United Press International PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Soviet Union is bleeding Afghanistan of its natural gas and other resources, a group of former high-ranking Afghan officials said Wednesday. The officials, who fled to the Pakistani border town of Peshawar in recent weeks, said the Soviets are taking large quantities of natural gas, fertilizer, cement and other Afghan goods but paying only a fraction of their real value. “They are treating our resources as if they belonged to Russia, ” said a former Planning Ministry official. “Perhaps the Western world will take that as a signal of their intentions.” The officials also said Afghanistan’s gross national product has fallen more than 70 percent in the last year and the government has printed millions of dollars worth of currency to pay the salaries of the nation’s bureaucracy. Work on all development projects has halted completely and industrial production has been reduced by about 80 percent, they said. Soviet tanks surround the Khoja Gogerdak and Jar Qudugh gas fields in Jauze Jang Province, about 18 miles from the Soviet border, the officials said. Soviet personnel have controlled the output from the two fields since the arrival of an estimated 85,000 Soviet troops last De cember. “They do not even let us examine our own records so we don’t know exactly how much gas Afghanistan actually produces,” said a former official of the Ministry of Mines and Industries in Kabul. The officials estimated production from the fields, which were sur veyed and mined by the Soviets, at 2.3 billion cubic meters per year. Since Moscow’s takeover, the fields have become sabotage targets for Moslem guerrillas fighting Soviet and Afghan government troops. uited Staltil azi Curse blamed for presidential deaths very zero-year president since 1840 ets red his mti 16 Jews. United Press International j : NEW YORK — There’s one factor r n °? :en overlooked in this year’s hectic Ur ?7 ; Sction battle - the purported S J i? ro-year presidential hex. Seve , ,, Ihe last seven presidents to win an anons aboil: L. . r ,. , , iction in a zero-ending year all ies > enyn jj e( j j n 0 flj ce) f our 0 f them Issinated. ted in 1951,1 Many call the zero-year presiden- the Romaiilldeath streak a freak coincidence, n 1952 anijut one legend suggests it’s an old He served ipe from an angry Indian medicine eming boar: :il of Chi* Tie death streak began with Presi- ent William Henry Harrison, best imembered by the political slogan 1 shared with running-mate John Tyler — “Tippecanoe and Tyler I” In 1800 President John Adams anted Harrison governor of In- ia territory, then largely inha led by Indians. He negotiated „ |, Bties with the Indians, opening r jew lands to white settlement and a , nlCri parking outrage among many Indi- ntoth , e "fleaders. jroun , , e T^gy un it e d un der the Shawnee Tecumseh and his brother, . , .Je Prophet,” — a medicine man ' 0 f e ' L - and began fighting the settlers. , In 1811 Harrison shattered Indian eir un en )rces at the Battle of Tippecanoe, hers were n) their singllf tltufoautician ;r pistol at f!j . -m thescanjIvUUCtCQ fit /eral bun* « # _ “i* icissorspoint United Press International HOUSTON — A 21-year-old pan has been accused of jumping Ifront of a woman motorist’s car to op her on a freeway, then abduct- igher at scissors point, robbing and ixually abusing her, police said Wednesday. Patricia Marie Janvrin, 21, was iled without bond on aggravated idnapping and aggravated sexual Duse. Police said the suspect jumped in Ont of a car driven by a 21-year-old ntician on her way to work nesday. When the woman stop- ed, officers said, the suspect raped into the passenger side and ok the woman’s scissors, investigators said the suspect cut sfyictim on the neck and ribs with I scissors, forced her to surrender I jewelry to buy methaquaaludes I id then ordered her to drive to a Jiarby construction site. At the site, officers said, the sus- <">. ” ktforced the woman to have sexual ilations with her. winning his nickname and fame that was to help propel him to the White House. Later, during the War of 1812, Harrison’s troops won a major vic tory over British forces and their In dian allies, led by Tecumseh, in the Battle of the Thames in Canada. Tecumseh, himself, was killed in the battle. Legend says that Tecumseh’s brother, “The Prophet,” then pro nounced a curse: Harrison and all future presidents elected in a zero- year would die in office. Harrison was elected to the pres idency in 1840. In March 1841 he gave an hour-long inaugural speech, the longest in history. It was a rainy day and he caught a cold. His cold soon developed into pneumonia and he died on April 4, only 30 days into his presidency. He was 68. Since then: —Abraham Lincoln, elected to his first term in 1860, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. —James Garfield, elected in 1880, was assassinated in 1881 by Charles J. Guiteau. —William McKinley, elected in 1900, was assassinated in 1901 by Leon F. Czolgosz. —Warren Harding, elected in 1920, died presumably of pneumo nia, a complication of food poisoning, in 1923. No autopsy was performed and the exact cause of death is un known. —Franklin Roosevelt, elected to a third term in 1940, died of a cerebral hemmorhage in 1945. —President John Kennedy, elected in 1960, was assasinated in 1963. The Gift That Says “FOREVER” Pulsar Quartz Orphanages closed, missionaries ousted United Press International EL PASO — Mexican immigra tion officials have ordered three Americans out of Mexico for operat ing unlicensed orphanages. The men were held four nights in a cramped, dark detention cell. They were released Monday and warned not to return to Mexico. Pat Zullo and Daniel Atwood, who work for Native Missions, Inc. of Jo plin, Mo., a nondenominational organization, were taken into cus tody late Thursday for operating an unlicensed orphanage near Zara- gosa. Clay Claibourne, who operates the Casa de Refugios (House of Re fuge), in Juarez, was taken into cus tody when he went to visit them at the jail. Mexican authorities said the m BV 18 am im YOUNG ENGINEERS DO YOU WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN ALL PHASES OF POWER PLANT DESIGN? lECTRICALS MECHANICALS CIVILS TIPPETT & GEE, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS FOR THE POWER INDUSTRY INTERVIEWING DECEMBER/MAY GRADUATES THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, PLACEMENT OFFICE Resign Engineers for power plants throughout the United States and Alaska, including the nearby Gibbons Creek Plant. Our offices are located in the West Texas city of Abilene Formed in 1954 67% Average annual growth rate for the past 4 years. GROW IN A PROFESSIONAL ATMOSPHERE TIPPETT & GEE, INC. 502 N. WILLIS STREET ABILENE, TEXAS 79603 915-673-8291 men did not have work permits and only Claibourne had a visa. Mexican immigration official Jesus SedanO said more arrests and shut downs could be expected. “Mexico will take care of our chil dren,” he said. “Mexican people will take care of Mexican orphans.” Sedano said the two orphanages were unlicensed and housed more than 100 children — many of whom he claimed were not orphans. “I know who their mothers are,” he said. Missionary workers in El Paso said the children were in effect orphans and abandoned youngsters who had been taken off Juarez streets and cared for in years past by American missionaries. 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