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It has been accepted for inclusion in Columbia Chronicle by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. \ /' THE CHRONICLE o F COL U M B I A CO L LE G E November 11, 1996 Bridging The Foreign Gap Coming To America RECEIVED NOV 12 1SSS CKuwait They come from all over the world. From the rain f orests of South America, the prairie flat lands of Canada, the close-packedjigsaw puzzle of European countries, the swatches ofp arched deserts to the sun-lit coastal escarpments of Africa. Over 400 international students study here, representing some 45 countries from every continent ill the world-Columbia has gained world prominence­ and, perhaps, even a guiding light in higher education. But why have some traveled great distances to come to America? And what does Columbia offer that beckons them? Over the past month, Senior Writer Leon Tripplett has talked to international students from Kenya, Kuwait and Japan who made the voyage to America and made Columbia their home. This week the Chronicle talks with Davissa Fernandes from Kuwait. FrODl Kuwait to ColuDlbia Davissa Fernandes Photo by SCOIl Bllxti" By Leon Tripplett fusion," and eventually wnr. Kuwait." she said. Senior Writer Fernandes remembers that uneasy night. Fernandes remembers the residential the eeri e prelude before reality drove home building across the street from that was It is not often that great events intrude in the understanding understanding that she bombed that afternoon. "We heart! a loud our lives, accelerates time and brings our would never be the same again and neither sound. followed by more sounds and we all world to a standstill. For a young Ku waiti would the rivcrlcss, hot desert. '" remember rushed downstairs to the basement of our girl , life stood still. She grew up earl y waking up to bomb shell noises early in the bui lding," she said. enough to know that war-lOrn Kuwait would morning," Fcrnadcs told the Chronicle in ,I Days latef. as waf loomed, the Fernandes never be the same. hysterical tonc. "My parenls came into the family did what most Kuwait fami li es were On a seemingly calm Thursday morning, room and tried to calm us down. They told doing-they left the mvaged, hot desert for Davissa Fernandes was looking forward to us that 'everything was going to be O K.'" Jordan 10 stay with relatives. '" had to leave a day out on the town with her mother-she She recalled the next day: "My parents my friends behind, the place where I was had just turned 16. Her hope were dashed, were walk ing up and down :.lIld all I t.:()uld brought up," Fernandes s'lid. however, when Iraqi soldiers invaded her think was, ' What is going on here.' My But they were leaving more than friend~ tiny, oil-rich, Middle Eastern nation of mother remembered reading through the behind--their whole homeland was Kuwait. There would be no shoppin g spree Reuters news service, the day before at and no day out on the town,just "chaos. con- work, that Iraq was plnnning to invade See Kuwait, page 5 PrintIng policy met with mixed reviews By Jill Schimelpfenig fl oor of the 600 S. Michigan Ave. out of a lab:' said Danie l Henrick. anoth ­ So much paper had been w;\stcd last SlafJ Wriler Bu ilding. For $ 10, the card allo ts 20 print er lab assistant. year that the department's budgct dcplet­ jobs of one to 10 pages each. Re becca Courington, at.:ting chair of ed early and the labs were out of paper The new printing policy administered Academic t he two weeks before the end of the spring by the Academic Computing De partment Computing At.:ademic semester. has taken off with some minor complaints D epartment Cumputing Courington has had no one in her and a few angry refutes, according to fac­ lab assistant Is the new printing policy fair? Department. office to complain ahout the polit.:y. " By ulty and lab assistants in the department. Matt Cotten, See editorial, page 9. explained and large. I think mo:-.t peuple understand As many students may be aware by a junior, said that the rea- that it's cost ant! it needs to be paid ror," now, printing a document in Columbia's that he has I son for the she said. computer labs is no longer free. r eceived pol i e y Her sentiments have been echoed by Beginning this semester, each print job many complaints from students who do change was people abusing the use of some students at Columbia. costs 50 cents. not like the idea. Other lab aids have had computer labs. She said, " We'd have stu­ Imholep Zoser, a sophomore music stu­ Students can purchase a print card similar experiences. dents printing up a hund red copies of dent, is not offended by the policy. "You through the cashier's office on the fifth "A guy got really upset and stonned 'I'm having a garage sale ... · See Poli cy, page 2 NEWS Novemb er 11 1 996 THE CHRONICLE Pulitzer-winning poet visits College Journalism Department By Jennifer Prause Beauty," "Region of Unlikeness" place or time or creed or race or 623 S. Wabash Ave., Suite SlaffWriter and "Materialism," "The Dream gender or even a specific lan­ The "Poetry Review" is • 802 of the Unified Field: Selected guage." nationally distribute~ map· Chicago, Illinois 60605 Jorie Graham. the winner of Poems 1974-1994" was pub­ Being trilingual, Graham has a zine edited and pubhshed by this year's Pul itzer Prize for poet­ lished by the Ecco choice of language Columbia students. It is aYair­ News desk: ry. read from her works last Press. .----- to convey her poetry able in the spring, usually May. (312) 663-1600 Ext. .5343 Thu rsday in the Hokin Gallery. Graham loves in but feels English Paul Hoover from the Graham won the Pulitzer, litera­ being a poet. She has "is such a vast muhi­ Poeuy Department said the ture's most prestigious award, for Photo desk: always been attract­ cultural language, magazine is "Forty percent "The Dream of the Unified Field: ed IQ the kind of (312) 663-1600 Ext. 5731 having in its marrow Columbia student worlc." Tho Se lected Poems /974-1994:· thinking necessary more other lan­ magazine was only for stu .. Born in New York. City in for writing poetry. guages than any dents up until three years ago. Advertising desk: 195 I, Graham was a recipient of " It 's the experi- other instrument. Then the department decided (312) 663-1600 Ext. 5411 the John D. and Catherine T. ence of going " I feel especially to allow professionals to COD­ MacArthur Fellowship. She now through one's lucky to have ended tribute. Because of an increase FAX: is on the faculty at the University life- through the up thinking and feel­ of diverse work, circulation (312) 427-3920 of Iowa's Creative Writers' crises, as well as the ing, searching in has increased from, according Workshop. s urpri ses - with it...it felt like com­ to Hoover, "Five hundred to e-mail: "Any prize feels simultane­ poetry's way of ing upon the Pacific three thousand" issues sold, Chron96@ interacess.com ously like a roll of the dice and a thinking as a guide Ocean from some including Canada. great honor ... As for the Pulitzer that's addictive. inland brook. Who Students start to publish tbo itself, it is a great honor, particu­ Form, technique, wouldn't want to try magazine in January. The edl­ Web page: larly because it's the only award [and] the language to learn to swim?" tors are chosen from the http://wwwS.interacess.com that address so many different of metaphor are all Her plans are to "Selected Advance Poetry IchronicJe uses of language-dramatic, amazing rudders by Jorie G raham keep writing and .Workshop" classes. novelistic, journalistic, which one steers teaching as best she Anyone can contribute to poetic- all of them searching for through the mess of things," she can, "To try to go through life the magazine. The deadline to Editor-in-Chief versions of the truth," Graham said. and not, accidentally, slip around submit work is Dec. 15. You John Henry Biederman stated. She was influenced by many, it." She feels poetl)! should be can purchase sample copies for "The Dream of the Unified including teacher Donald Justice taught in school like math, geog­ $6. If you bave any questions, Managing Editor Field" yields 20 years of writing, and others she refers to as "teach­ raphy or history, contact Paul Hoover in the Cristin Monti revealing the growth of an aston­ ers not there in the flesh" includ­ "The routes of perception English Department. For a ishing poetic voice. Investigating in g Dickinson, Hopkins, poetry opens in a forming response, send a self­ new types of territory, she has Berryman and Keats.