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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | Hilltop Views
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Angers deadline extended
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In the article, "Committee to review SGA Bills", which appeared on page 2 on Nov. 4,
the documents described should have been referred to as resolutions. Measures that go
to the Legislative Initiatives are resolutions; those that go to Intergovernmental Affairs
are bills.
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The article "Folks that have given Austin flavor," which appeared on page 9 on Nov. 4
contained two errors. Will Wynn should have been identified as the former mayor of
Austin. Jake Hartwell wrote the article.
"The plane tickets to and
from Austin and Atlanta
are in the $700 range, so
that is a huge chunk of
money,” she said. “In 2008,
he came home the week af-
ter Christmas because the
week of [Christmas] was
really expensive."
In addition to high ticket
prices, air travelers also in-
cur additional fees as most
airlines require a checked
baggage fees. Parking, food
and other unexpected costs
also need to be factored into
a trip to the airport.
Marcos Soto, a senior,
said even if the ticket prices
were cheaper, he would not
fly to his home in Dallas,
a three-to-four hour jour-
ney up IH-35. Currently,
Southwest Airlines starts
roundtrip tickets from Aus-
tin to Dallas, a 300-mile
journey, at $306.
“I personally would not
fly home even if ticket pric-
es were lower” he said. “I
prefer the scenic drive back
to Dallas. The journey gives
me time to think and I get
to see our state change as I
drive along.”
Increasing ticket prices
may force many students,
who need to travel long dis-
tances home, to adopt this
positive attitude toward
road trips this holiday sea-
son.
ang said. "It’s as if the student
were enrolling in a normal se-
mester at St. Edward’s.”
All processes and applica-
tions for financial aid for a
semester abroad are the exact
same as for regular semes-
ters at home, Hoang said.
There are some scholarships
available to students that are
specific to semesters spent
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Paso on Nov. 25 and re-
turning on Nov. 28 start at
$311, according to Trav-
elocity, while Bing travel
starts airfare from Austin
to El Paso at $467.
Kyle Nigro, a freshman,
is flying home to Connecti-
cut for Thanksgiving and
Christmas, and bought his
tickets nearly a month ago.
"The tickets for Thanks-
giving, round-trip, are going
to be $450 to fly back [to
Connecticut] on Nov. 24
and return Sunday [Nov.
28]," he said, “The tickets
for Christmas are $350,
cheaper because it isn’t as
close to the holiday.”
According to Travelocity
on Nov. 6, the same tickets
from Austin to Hartford,
Conn, over the Thanksgiv-
ing break start at $704. Al-
though Nigro said the cost
of ticket prices were not a
major concern for him, he
said it most likely will be
for a lot of students.
Callie Simpson, a senior,
is one of these students. For
Simpson, ticket prices mean
the difference between get-
ting to see her brother for
the holidays or not, she
said. Her brother attends
law school in Atlanta, Ga.,
and finds it hard to make
it home for the holidays
because of high airfare. In
fact, ticket prices have kept
her brother from coming
home for the holidays for
nearly two years.
the program in Angers offers day to day lives. Flynn will
opportunities for students also be teaching courses on
who wish to spread their creative writing, specifically
wings and learn in a different focusing on their personal,
cultural environment. The past experiences. Flynn
current fall semester program hopes that the new culture
in Angers has a business and environment will help
school focus. The upcoming to inspire students to have
spring semester is focused on interesting things and travel
the School of Humanities, experiences to write about,
and boasts some interesting “Angers is very picturesque,
courses on literature and ere- with a lot of physical history,
ative writing. There are many things to see
Chris Flynn, associate pro- with a medieval feel to them,”
fessor of Humanities will be Flynn said.
teaching English courses in This program in Angers
Angers in the spring. Flynn has been in the works at St.
had designed a program al- Edwards for about a year-
most two years ago after vis- and-a-half. The professors
iting Paris that focused on are selected to teach in An-
American writers and how gers after submitting propos-
the time they spent abroad als for courses of study that
affected their work. To his are specific to Angers or the
delight he was selected to general area. A commit-
teach in Angers during the tee comprised of Deans and
first humanities focused se- faculty decides and approves
mester, partly because he programs that are usually
already had a lot of the plan- submitted over a year in ad-
ning and organization for his vance.
courses complete. The program is currently
"The literature course is fo- structured to offer business-
cused on American expatriate related courses in the fall and
writers and will give students humanities in the spring,
a unique sense of the disloca- However, the hope is to in-
tion from normal life that af- elude other, and more varied
fected the way these writers programs in the future.
thought and wrote what they Students who are looking
did," Flynn said. to study abroad for a semes-
Flynn, who traveled to An- ter have many programs to
gers this past summer, thinks choose from. However, the
that this location will help Office of International Edu-
to give students this unique cation thinks that the pro-
perspective while being sepa- gram will catch on among
The application deadline
for the spring semester of the
St. Edward’s study abroad
program in Angers, France
was recently extended due to
slow enrollment.
The Angers program,
which is currently in its first
semester, originally required
student applications for the
spring to be turned in by
Oct. 8. That deadline was
extended to Oct. 30 to in-
crease enrollment, and also
due to marketing internship
opportunities that recently
became available in Angers
for students. There were 13
students that applied for the
spring semester program.
International Education
Coordinator Esmeralda Ho-
ang said she thinks that these
numbers are modest but ex-
pected.
“We’ve expected it to be
a slow start,” Hoang said.
“There are 18 students there
now, and we expect a similar
group for the spring.”
One reason for the slow en-
rollment into the program is
the economic pressures both
here at home and abroad.
Students and their parents
are much more aware of
the expense posed by study
abroad programs, and the in-
stability of the U.S. dollar as
compared to the euro make
accurate cost estimates diffi-
cult to obtain with certainty.
The current price for a se-
mester in Angers, France is
$15,570, not including air-
fare or money for food. Cur-
rent students in the program
that have been surveyed re-
port that they spend about
50 euros a week on food ex-
penses, which is the equiva-
lent to about $75. This adds
up to a large expense for
students and their parents,
however financial aid and
scholarships work towards a
semester abroad just like any
other semester.
"It’s important to note that
all financial aid applies,” Ho-
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students looking to invest in
a rich learning experience.
“The Angers program
seems like it’s more accessible
and comfortable for St. Ed-
ward’s students,” Hoang said.
"Students in the program are
benefitted by having other St.
Edward’s students and fac-
ulty around them and nearby
all of the time.”
Flynn said that he is excited
to be going to Angers for a
semester to teach and also
said that the program is very
beneficial to students in the
long run, and any who are
able should take advantage of
the program in Angers and
other programs. The Office
of International Education
recently held eight study
abroad information sessions
in less than two weeks.
“As an undergrad, it is the
best time of your life for this
kind of dramatic move, and
it can very literally be life
changing,” Flynn said.
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