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Wednesday, December 1, 1982 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Foreign enrollment . Continued from Page 1 "International students, are , often frustrated by the inability to establish meaningful relationships with students," Levitov noted. He said this problem is sometimes compounded when interna' tional students responds to an initial overture of friendship, then find the other person drawing back from the acquain tance. Levitov mentioned that imernational students at UNL have had problems with some religious and evangelistic groups on campus recently, and noted that he has personally received complaints from inter national students about pressure evangel izing. Such attempts to pressure religious con version often come at social meetings that international students cannot grace fully leave, Levitov said. "They feel frustrated and unable to leave. It's so. offensive for them to be told that their whole value system is wrong. . . They are forced to listen to something which denigrates their entire belief system," he said. "Foreign students are not here because we are trying to uplift the aborigines. . . They are here because there is value in their presence in the classroom," Levitov said one of the biggest success stories in the international student program is a cattle breeding scientist from Nigeria who started at UNL in the mid-60s. He got his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from UNL and stayed on a year to teach in the animal science department. While he studied at UNL, Nigeria was in the turmoil of the Biafran civil war. When he returned to Nigeria, he was faced with the choice of living in his safe home district or working in an area where his own ethnic group was not well received, but where his research would be much more valuable and urgently needed. The man chose to go to the new area, and has since become an international success, Levitov noted. ... ' Levitov said that the scientist had been popular at UNL, but had not tried to change his life to conform to the American culture too closely. "He didn't go native.' " Levitov explained that those who ...... .1 (i .4 tUa "go native , tninK rnev can put uu DON'T GET DOWN! Finish Up 9, 12, 18 & 24 Month Programs! Lincoln School of Commerce offers complete programs in accounting, word processing, secretarial, legal assistant, fashion merchandising, business administration, court reporting, com puter programming and tour and travel. You can receive either associate degrees or diplomas in 9-24 month programs. Check Into Lincoln School of Commerce's "hire" education. Classes start January 20, 1983 and are forming now. Call today because there is limited enrollment! LINCOLN SCHOOL OF COMMERCE Day Classes UlRHfilifi) Si?isi?tlt (Sl: (fdlHIHEtitU! M ffl". 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