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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Student Government members APC gives students opportunity to take hear updates on Towers space education one step farther, student says SG: From Page 1
Talley said Mackey and her colleagues could make the issue one pertaining to alcohol issues on campus if SSDP were to make it an accountability-based policy. SG also heard updates on the Towers Planning Committee and its plans to repurpose the basement and dining hall of the Towers residence hall. Sophia Wodya, vice president of SG internal affairs and CAS senior, said members have been working with the administration to create a new use for the vacant space. Herbert, president of the BU Residence Hall Association, said there might be two study lounges, a recreation room, a faculty-inresidence, two music rooms, a laundry room for Towers residents and for Bay State Road residences as well as a satellite fitness facility along with some other features. “It’s difficult because there’s
going to be no extra revenue coming in, but there is going to be higher operating expenses for FitRec overall,” said Herbert. “It’s definitely something very likely, and it’s something that something that the entire committee supports.” Caitlin Seele, SMG junior and SG director of advocacy, said SG has made progress in implementing its holiday bus service which will shuttle students to Logan airport for school breaks. Seele said SG received survey results from students saying students were willing to pay around $8 for a ticket. “Realistically, we are thinking of doing the first bus for spring break,” Seele said. “We need time to have a real advertising push because it is so important that we have [enough people].” The buses will be less expenseive than taking a cab and will make stops in front of various dorms and areas on campus, Seele said.
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tern, Huskic said she has already had the opportunity to travel to Johannesburg and meet the former president of Zambia, Rupiah Banda. Huskic, a sociology major, said international relations has always been an interest, but she never thought it would lead to interning for the APC. “Once I started the internship, I got so much more knowledge about the continent,” Huskic said. “I feel like being there all this time I am learning about things as they happen, so it’s very real time. I don’t think I have gotten this information about Africa in any of my classes before.” Huskic said Africa is an interesting, up-and-coming area. “They’re still undergoing development — it’s not a very westernized place,” Huskic said. “Researching Africa has been eye-opening. It’s a totally different type of cultural experience.”
Amrita Singh, a CAS junior, said the center appealed to her because she was interested in international relations, especially in Africa. She said the APC has given her the opportunity to become friends with people who have the same passions on BU’s campus. “It [the APC] has definitely helped me situate myself as a BU student,” Singh said. “Sometimes with BU being so big, sometimes I am like, ‘Where are the people that like the things I like?’ It’s nice that I am surrounded by people who I really like being around.” Singh said her experience at APC has educated her and provided her with endless opportunities such as attending the Roundtable conference in Johannesburg. “I can’t really capture the experience that I had there,” she said. “It was definitely a unique experience that helped me grow as a person and as a worker.” Singh said the APC has given
her the opportunity to put her interest in international relations and Africa to use in a practical way. It has also allowed her to see the options she has for her future career. “I will most definitely will be doing something within the continent, but I don’t know exactly where I’m headed,” Singh said. “The center has definitely helped me see what I am passionate about.” Singh said her experience at the APC has helped her to take a step further in her education by interacting in a meaningful way with the type of work she wants to do in the future rather than just reading about it in class. “I totally appreciate being part of an atmosphere where your work and you hours are taken very seriously,” she said. “You’re not just doing stuff to put this on your resume — you’re doing things that are important.”
CAS junior: International students offer different perspectives in Boston U. classroom environment Int’l: From Page 1
anything, there’s a lot of activities that involve international students and a lot of those things that the international students office does help us with incorporating ourselves into the community.” Shannon Almeida from Bombay, India, said BU’s environment was not too different from her home city. “BU is in a city, and I grew up in Bombay, so I was used to that,” Almeida, an SMG junior, said. “I also wanted a really diverse school, and I think BU was a good choice for that. It fit every-
thing that I wanted ... It is also a college city, which is good, since you get to meet a lot of students from other schools.” She said BU benefits from having so many international students. “You understand other cultures — you’re more aware of everything,” she said. Urs Weber, a College of Arts and Sciences junior from Bremen, Germany, said he was not surprised by BU’s ranking. “When I was looking at American colleges and universities while I was in Europe, at the college fairs around Europe,
I lived in Switzerland, England and Spain, and BU was I think the only school from the U.S. that consistently came to all the college fairs in those countries,” he said. Weber said the inclusion of international students helps others to see different viewpoints. “Any sort of diversity always enhances any academic interaction or academic conversation,” he said. “The biggest influence on students in college is interactions they can have with other students.” Amy Gorel contributed to the reporting of this article.
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