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Show AggieUfe Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007 Many foreign students torn over war views BY STUART ESKENAZI national students who oppose the war do have something in common - they are strugSEATTLE-Jelte gling over whether to express Harnmeijer's friends were sur- their views publicly, balancprised to learn that the next ing that urge with a recognistage of his scholastic advention that they are guests in a ture would take him to the foreign land. Some, such as United States, a country with Harnmeijer, have elected to policies he has criticized as speak out. Others, however, imperialistic and self-serving. are harnessing their impulses Harnmeijer, who carries a out of fear that attaching Dutch passport, could barely their names to the anti-war believe it, either. So before movement could imperil their accepting admission to the immigration status - even University of Washington, though student-visa regulahe made a pact with himtions do not prohibit dissent. self. While studying here, he "There is nothing in the would try to open the eyes F-l student-visa regulations and minds of Americans to to prohibit international stuwhat he perceives as damagdents from expressing First ing effects of U.S. foreign Amendment rights," DeVere policy. said. "But we are living in a Since arriving in strange time right now." September, Harnmeijer has Harnmeijer said professors helped start a UW organizahere and abroad cautioned tion opposing a U.S.-Iraq war him about getting puband assisted in drafting a licly involved in the anti-war campuswide anti-war resolumovement. Initially, he was tion. He considers it his way reticent, but his anxieties subof repaying the American sided. A geologist, he is just people, who finance his edustarting his five-year course cation through governmenttoward a doctorate in astrosponsored grants. biology, tin- study of extreme "My debt is to the ecosystems. American people, not the govAt 22, his floppy hair and ernment. Americans, like any- boyish looks belie a worldlione else, are good people. It's ness dnuvn from living in 10 just a matter of them knowing different countries. He said he what is going on," he said. formed his views on American About 2,600 non-U.S. resiforeign policy while growing dents from about 100 differup in southern Africa among ent countries are enrolled at people who suffered because, the UW, more than half from in his view, the U.S. had more Asia. The majority are on stuinterest in the region's mindent visas and are graduate eral deposits than in human students. Their schooling is rights. financed through a variety of Like Harnmeijer, British means - including personal exchange student Chris Peck funds, tuition waivers, stuis involved in University of dent-exchange programs or Washington Against the War, grants supported by the U.S. the campus anti-war group. or foreign governments. "I'm opposing war here When it comes to politics because I would be doing that and the foreign students' in the (United Kingdom)," positions on a possible U.S.said Peck, 21, who is from Iraq war, their views - not the University of Edinburgh surprisingly - vary as much as in Scotland. "I do worry that their countries of origin, conpeople might perceive it as trasting as widely as Bosniaarrogant that I press my ideas Herzegovina and Brazil, on others and tell people what Iceland and Israel, Taiwan they should think about their and Turkey. own government. But that's "It's quite impossible sort of the problem, isn't to generalize about their it? The U.S. is pressing its political views," said Curt own values on the rest of the DeVere, director of the UW's world." International Services Office. Peck draws his line of "Basically, the only thing you protest, however, at civil can say for certain that our disobedience - a length he is international students have certain he would go to if still in common with each other is in Britain. "As an exchange that they were not born in the student, my immigration staUnited States." tus is tenuous," he said. But the segment of interSumara Hine, a 20-yearThe Seattle Times (KRT) old UW student from New Zealand, worries that protesting the U.S. position on Iraq could impede her future ability to obtain a tourist visa. "I've been studying U.S. history of the 1960s and have learned about the trouble anti-war protesters could get into with the records the government keeps," said Hine, adding that she believes her concerns are probably unrealistic. She opposes a war but intentionally is sitting out public protests. "It's not my country and I don't want to protest as if it is," Hine said. Dhruba Acharya, a 44year-old forester from Nepal and a fellow in the UW's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, said a lack of time has kept him from participating in anti-war events. But he believes this country's freedom of expression also applies to him. "The U.S. allows and welcomes critical observation," Acharya said. James Ochieng Okuma, 25, a Kenyan pursuing a master's degree in public health, marched downtown recently in opposition to the war. He also was among the thousands injured in the August 1998 terrorist bombing at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed more than 200 people. "Americans don't understand the magnitude of war," he said. But David Sheppard, a 22-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh who studied American history, literature and politics at the UW during the 2000-2001 academic year, said his Seattle experience gave him an appreciation for the approach the U.S. is taking toward Saddam Hussein. "The main difference between myself and my peers is that I am at no risk of falling into crass, knee-jerk, anti-Americanism after the great year I spent studying in Seattle," he said. "I don't think that most people in Europe realize yet how the political climate has changed - not just in the U.S. but in the world - since Sept. 11. Rogue states with ties to terrorism can no longer be appeased." Page 7 Coming up... T H E A N N U A L D I N N E R A N D D A N C E S H O W will be at USU from Wednesday until Saturday with students and community members performing. Students who go Wednesday get a discount and can come to the event for $7 (this does not include the dinner). Brenda Anthony, who is in charge of the event, said, "We are convinced (watching this show) enhances the college students' interaction with fine arts." The show begins at 8 p.m in the TSC Ballroom. 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