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Lake Forest, Ill.-— The Global Responsibilities Student Symposium at Lake Forest College will be held on Monday, February 17 and Tuesday, February 18 and will feature two events, both open to the public and free of charge. The Symposium will be held in the Durand Art Institute, located at the corner of Sheridan and Deerpath roads in Lake Forest. The Symposium is supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Global Partners initiative, through the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. For more information please contact 847- 735-6010. On Monday, February 17 at 7 p.m. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Global Village” will be the title of the opening address. The keynote speaker, Dr. Maria Al-Salem, says of herself, “I am a Slovenian, born in Austria, with American citizenship, married to a Kuwaiti living in Paris. I come from a family of eight, immigrants to America from war torn Europe, and thanks to scholarships that could only happen in the U.S., my siblings and I have 21 college degrees.” Dr. Salem, nee Kolman, graduated from Waukegan High School and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lake Forest College in 1967 with majors in Russian and German. She went on to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in comparative literature, and she has taught at the university level in the United States, France, and Kuwait. Dr. Al-Salem is the director of Lake Forest’s study/internship program in Paris. Author of many articles on international relations, Maria Al-Salem will discuss the way U.S. students are viewed when they travel abroad. A reception will follow in the Albright Gallery. On Tuesday, February 18 from 4–5:30 p.m. a panel of seven students, moderated by Dr. Rand Smith of the politics department, will discuss issues of cultural differences and strategies for adaptation used when the students studied abroad on Lake Forest College’s programs in Greece and Turkey, Paris, and Santiago, Chile. Other students will represent Associated Colleges of the Midwest Programs and other foreign or off-campus study programs in which Lake Forest College students have participated. A representative of Lake Forest’s International Student Organization—international students make up 13 percent of the College enrollment—will also discuss American cultural experience. The presentation will be followed by a buffet reception and exhibit in the Albright Gallery from 5:30-6:30 p.m An exhibit in the Albright Gallery, located in the Durand Art Institute, will represent the students’ intercultural experiences, including pictures and presentations of student internships such as those at the Santiago Zoo, working on a Paris fashion show, and student/faculty trips to China underwritten by a grant from the Freeman Foundation, which supports the Lake Forest College Asia Center. Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The college has 1,300 students representing 45 states and 43 other countries.
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