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The North Texas Daily
Wednesday, April 20, 1994
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City/Campus
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and attended the wrong orientation.
Laughing, Oshima said that has to here, and I enjoy speaking the lan-
sprained her ankle was chaotic.
loudly, had pulled up in front of Maple her visit interesting. She said her friend, tels that are a reflection of her person- ’
Washington, invited her to spend the ality, she recalls some advice a Japa-
Hall.
introducing her to the American way success, and this nine-month expert-;
of life, she has learned to adjust ac-
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“Life is easier than you think; all that is necessary is
to accept the impossible, do without the indispens-
able, and bear the intolerable.”
The University Scholarship Com-
mittee is finalizing selections for gen-
staff to better organize the data that the
13-member committee uses in making
selections for the awards.
“We have a scholarship that is to be
awarded to a student who is the child of
understand English well, she ended up the hospital where her ankle was X-
missing breakfast the next morning rayed and then bandaged.
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themselves as paramedics.
Wright let the men into the room
ence will be a treasure in the future,” he;
said.
For Oshima, that statement only;
scratches the surface of her expert-;
ences in America.
When Yukiko Oshima left Noto,
Japan, to come to America, she had no
idea that she would fall in love with a
country so vastly different from her
homeland.
Oshima, an English major from
Kansai University of Foreign Studies,
is one of many students participating
in the “Recommended Student Pro-
gram” offered by her university.
Oshima says her program is differ-.
ent from the exchange student pro-
gram because her program only pays
for her tuition, not her room and board
expenses.
ment in America.
After being here for five months,
those initial feelings of nervousness
guage everyday,” she said in a quiet,
reflective voice.
Oshima said there are many things
she will remember about her stay, but’
most of all, she will miss everyday life,
here and talking with her friends.
gible to be considered,” Miller said.
“Last year we had 884 students apply
for the awards.”
An automated process was imple-
. mented this year to assist the staff in
processing applications, Miller said.
IN THE END, her parents realized
how important this opportunity was to
her, so they supported her decision to
go.
If the smile one her face and the
sparkle in her eyes are anything to go
by, it’s a decision she hasn’t regretted.
Arriving in Dallas after a grueling
13-hour flight, Oshimarecalls her first
feelings of being in one of America’s
largest cities as that of being, well, hot
and nervous.
Oshima says she spent the night at
the Hilton Hotel where she was picked
up the next day by an NT assistant and
taken to Maple Hall.
When she begins to talk about her
first week at NT, Oshima seems un-
able to contain the laughter that ap-
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pan with many memories from
America.
“I have mixed emotions about go-
ing home because I’ve come to love
America very much. I’m very happy
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The new system means that staff mem- the progressive direction we are tak-
bers no longer manually calculate a - ing,” she said. “The bottom line is that
student’s grade-point average or other we are making their jobs easier as
scores used in the ranking process. committee members. Because of the
“With the automated system, we change, they can be more effective in
enter the student’s name and social looking at each applicant on a case-
security number and have the benefit by-case basis and awarding the dollars
of obtaining the needed application appropriately.”
information from the Office of Admis- Miller said that figures for the num-
sions or the Registrar’s Office, regard- ber of scholarships that will be awarded
ing the criteria we need in order to or the total dollars available to candi-
consider the applicant,” Miller said. dates would not be available until the
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and determined that it was a sprain. Oshima said one thing she has dis-
Dallas senior Tressa Washington, covered is that some Americans are
Oshima’s roommate, said by this time very religious, whereas in Japan, most
the people in Maple had come out of people are not.
their rooms because they wanted to “Sometimes I feel like people rely
know what all the excitement was on their religion because they have;
about. something weak within themselves,,
Back in the room, the paramedics but now I’m beginning to think differ-
asked Oshima if she could walk and if ently. I sometimes envy them because
she wanted to ride in the ambulance to they have a world I can’t understand,
the hospital. and they seem happy with it,” she said.
However, when Oshima found out Oshima said one of her best experi-
that the ride would cost her $300, she ences in America was when she trav-
quickly declined their offer. eled during the Christmas season. One
Washington drove her roommate to of the first cities she visited was Port-
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Oshima said three big men rushed Thanksgiving holiday with her family, nese man gave to her on the flight to;
into the building with a stretcher, Washington said, “In the beginning, America.
banged on their door and identified she seemed not apt to adjust. By me “Every failure is a steppingstone to;
regarding the new automated system pears to be a natural part of her charac-
has been positive, Miller said. ter.
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Coreen Wright, a Dallas senior, called miliarity and contentment.
911 to find out what to do for her
sprained ankle. Before she knew what
was happening, an ambulance and a OSHIMA SAID SHE has made a
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“Sometimes I feel like people rely on their religion host family for two weeks.
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but now I’m beginning to think differently. I sometimes Chicago and New York. The excite-
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Stand, and they seem happy with it.” the fashions and the architecture. She
says she really enjoyed seeing the Sears
Tower, the Empire State Building and
— Yukiko Oshimo, the Statue of Liberty.
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