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ISOSU holds coffee hour for international students
President Ed Ray appears at Tuesday's coffee hour to show his support
Shanna Woodruff
Issue date: 1/21/09 Section: News
ISOSU held their first coffee hour yesterday evening at the MU Learning Lounge in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. and the inauguration of the new President of the United States.
The International Student organization and the Campus Alliance for International Resources committee have been working together to make the International Resource Center happen.
"We would like to have a home for international students or internationally-minded students," said Phuong Nguyen, the public relations coordinator of ISOSU. IRC is a space where these students can come together and meet people, learn about different cultures and talk about current issues.
The MU Learning Lounge is reserved three times a week for the IRC to provide that space. "I would love to bring more people from the community," Nguyen said.
Nguyen has been with ISOSU since it started in the summer of 2008 and has seen it grow from about 30 to over 100 students.
Since then it has grown to help many international students. This year, OSU expects about 500 additional international students.
"This is a great organization. It has an amazing impact on campus," said President Ed Ray, who attended the ISOSU event.
There were 13 affiliates from different cultures representing their culture and wearing the traditional clothing of their country. ISOSU hopes to have a photo exhibition in the future to display photos of all the different international locations represented.
Two students from Japan, dressed in traditional clothing, expressed their appreciation for the program.
"I like it a lot so that I have a chance to talk to many different people with very different cultures," said Mariko Obata, a recent graduate in business marketing from Yokohama, Japan.
"I like this coffee hour. It's a very good time to get to know other people," said Masahiro Kitagawa, who is in the Master's program for mechanical engineering and is from Nagasaki, Japan.
Various students not involved in the ISOSU program attended the event.
The International Student organization and the Campus Alliance for International Resources committee have been working together to make the International Resource Center happen.
"We would like to have a home for international students or internationally-minded students," said Phuong Nguyen, the public relations coordinator of ISOSU. IRC is a space where these students can come together and meet people, learn about different cultures and talk about current issues.
The MU Learning Lounge is reserved three times a week for the IRC to provide that space. "I would love to bring more people from the community," Nguyen said.
Nguyen has been with ISOSU since it started in the summer of 2008 and has seen it grow from about 30 to over 100 students.
Since then it has grown to help many international students. This year, OSU expects about 500 additional international students.
"This is a great organization. It has an amazing impact on campus," said President Ed Ray, who attended the ISOSU event.
There were 13 affiliates from different cultures representing their culture and wearing the traditional clothing of their country. ISOSU hopes to have a photo exhibition in the future to display photos of all the different international locations represented.
Two students from Japan, dressed in traditional clothing, expressed their appreciation for the program.
"I like it a lot so that I have a chance to talk to many different people with very different cultures," said Mariko Obata, a recent graduate in business marketing from Yokohama, Japan.
"I like this coffee hour. It's a very good time to get to know other people," said Masahiro Kitagawa, who is in the Master's program for mechanical engineering and is from Nagasaki, Japan.
Various students not involved in the ISOSU program attended the event.
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