Record Number of Foreign Students Attend Campus in '93

TCU Daily Skiff Friday, September 24, 1993 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 91st Year, No. 18 Record number of foreign students attend campus in '93 By MICHELE GRAY hear about the university from other that Japanese enrollment would summer, Bus said, 90 percent of the dents choose to go to large public "Students say that it's a good TCU Daily Skiff international students, and the Inter- increase. international students in the English- universities, but some are attracted to atmosphere," he said. "We have spe- national Student Affairs office also "I think the Japanese are so well- language program progressed into a smaller private university for dif- cial orientations. We do a lot of per- There are more international stu- recruits students, Mladenka said. organized that they will find us." he one of the university's academic pro- ferent reasons. sonal-centered type of activities." dents at the university than ever this Kenneth Bus, assistant director for said. "They have agents and agencies grams. "A Japanese student might say 'I But in order for the university to year: a record 4.5 percent of the stu- International Student Affairs, travels in Japan that do nothing but help stu- "These students come here and don't want to be where other recruit more international students. dent population comes from another to Southeast Asia to recruit students. dents study just English for perhaps a Japanese students go,' " he said. " '1 Mladenka said, more funds are country. Other means for recruitment "Texas is a good draw for semester or two." Bus said. "When want to be alone. Or I want to have needed. Al Mladenka. director of interna- include a longtime relationship with Japanese students and students they're proficient enough they can be the experience of being among "It depends on how much the uni- tional affairs, said 295 international the Carl Dusiberg Society, a student across the nation." admitted to the university." American students and to practice versity wants to recruit and how students are currently enrolled. exchange program in Germany. Mladenka said most international Texas is in the top three states in my English.' " much they want to increase the per- That's up from the 260 in Fall 1992 Through this program, the business students are attracted to the univer- the nation for attracting students, Bus Mladenka said the university's centage of international students." he and 225 in Fall 1991. school has gained many German stu- sity for one reason. said. The University of Texas cur- size and programs are a strong draw- said. "So we struggle to do two trips Our numbers have increased con- dents, Mladenka said. "The intensive English-language rently attracts the most international ing point. abroad per year with a small staff and siderably. Mladenka said. Chinese students are attracted to program is as responsible for our students, he said. "Their families may prefer univer- the number of students we have. Most of the international students the university because of its graduate increased enrollment as much as any- "We don't have the percentage or sities that have a comprehensive pro- That's a struggle because it takes one are from Asia, Mexico and Germany, program in chemistry, he said. thing else," Mladenka said, "We the numbers anywhere near that UT gram, and not as many students so of us out of the office for three weeks. he said. Currently 36 students are While Bus said that most of the have a high rate of matriculation has or University of North Texas that their not lost in the shuffle," "So we have to zero in on two from China, 25 from Japan, 17 from Japanese students come to the uni- from the intensive English program has," Bus said. "But 1 think we're Mladenka said. areas of the world," he said. "If we Mexico, and 16 from both Germany versity through a placement program to the degree program." doing well compared to other private Mladenka said ISA has been com- want to really cover the seven areas and Taiwan. to learn English. Nineteen students are enrolled in schools." plimented on how it treats interna- of the world then yeah, we would Most of the international students Bus said he predicted a year ago the intensive English program. Last Bus said many international stu- tional students. need more staff to do that." Marriage leads to murder most foul Student House at Programming Council 'wedding' branches clash By ROBERT WOLF responses from the crowd. After her walk down the aisle, a priest with a over brick sales TCU Daily Skiff strong Southern drawl pronounced Wednesday, at approximately Lorraine and Tommy as man and 7:45 p.m., a horrible murder wife. Improvements, Programming occurred in the Student Center The crowd had another chance to Ballroom. be a part of the show as Myra. the disagree about pavestone price Actually, it was the Program- high-strung wedding coordinator, ming Council's Performing Arts proposed a toast. She then led the By JOHN J. LUMPKIN enhance the campus." he said. Committee's presentation of "1 audience in tributes to both Tommy TCU Daily Skiff "There's no point in having peoples' Now Pronounce You . Mur- and Lorraine. names on a brick if you're just going dered." Myra said, "What wedding A plan by the House of Student to have their name on a brick." The production, written by would be complete without the Representatives Permanent What P.C. objects to is that Cranston Dodds and Marsha Dou- opening of the gifts?" and so the Improvements Committee to sell Improvements is increasing its bud- glass was brought to life by the happy couple began opening their engraved pavestones is under fire get beyond the money garnered from Bravo! Productions National Tour- presents. from Programming Council mem- the fee all students paid at the begin- ing Company and several TCU stu- After receiving an egg and a bers because the project will make ning of the year, said Grete Holt, dents. gold-sequinned shoe, Lorraine and money, something P.C voluntarily administrative assistant of P.C. As soon as everyone had entered Tommy found a black wreath with does not do. "I just have a problem with the fact the ballroom (elegantly disguised a farewell banner wrapped around The House approved Improve- that the students already paid S20 to as a wedding hall), student volun- it. This was the first clue, and it was ments' plan Tuesday to sell the go into the House fund." Holt said. "I teers were immediately sought. found before the murder even took stones to the student body. These don't think they (improvements) Robin Scheiffer. a Moncrief Hall place. stones can be engraved with stu- should be trying to fund-raise resident, became the maid of honor, Without warning, Lorraine, dent's names, graduation data, Greek essentially we (students) are paying since the "true" maid of honor was played by Teresa Schleith, darted affiliation or other symbol. The double. We (P.C.) could do a lot delayed on her flight from Chicago. out of the Student Center and a pair stones are to be placed in a renovated more if we charged tor programs. We "I was just honored to be cho- of students, identified only as Kim walk between the Mary Couts Bur- don't because the student fee is sup- sen," said Scheiffer. "It was a little and Terry, rushed after her, only to nett Library and Winton-Scott Hall, posed to pay for it." embarrassing though because guys find Lorraine dead in the bathroom. pending approval by school adminis- Matt McClendon. student body were hooting and whistling at me as Lorraine's pacemaker had sud- tration. president, said he didn't see a prob- I was walking down the aisle." denly failed. The tentative price for these stones lem with the project. The audience was then intro- Standing up to take charge was TCU Daily Skiff/ Jenny Putchmski is S25. said Scott Wheatley, "1 don't think they're making duced to Lorraine, the bride-to-be, Lorraine's ex-husband and private Wedded bliss goes amiss in "I Know Pronounce You ... Improvements chairman. The cost to money' off this deal." McClendon whose horn-rimmed glasses and Murdered," a mystery dinner theater presentation put on the committee is SIX, he said, so $7 said. "All the money goes back into mousey image both got thunderous see Mystery,page 2 Wednesday night by Programming Council. per stone sold goes back to the com- further improvements." mittee. "The difference will go to further see Clash, page 2 RTVFprofessor to show INDEX Investigation of Amtrak controversial 'NYPD' Sensitivity's out Cologne ad says men are wreck focuses on tugboat back! in Tuesday media class Page 3 By ROBERT DVORCHAK utes before the train crash that he isn't navigable, although barges Mosiac Associated Press had struck a bridge, but mistakenly sometimes tie up there temporarily By CRYSTAL DECKER on a daily basis," Freeman said. "We Mosiac reviews "Dazed thought he had hit a span on the "The vessel found itself not in the TCU Daily Skiff cannot shelter our students from and Confused," a movie SARALAND. Ala. — An investi- Mobile River. Instead, he was on river channel but in the Bayou what is in the market. What kind of about the 70s youth cul- gation into Amtrak's deadliest wreck ■ Bayou Canot, one of several bayous, Canot," said Andrew Hams, general Tuesday night, Dallas and Fort learning institution would we be?" ture. focused Thursday on a tugboat oper- streams and creeks that feed into the manager for terminals for Warrior & Worth residents crowded into a The program, which has already Page 6 ator who radioed to authorities that river at its delta.

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