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Show I Miss Bunderson Studies In Mexico i Vicki Bunderson, Kit) N, 300 W is enrolled this summer at tlie University of the Americas Ameri-cas located in Mexico City. Because the over 12000 students stu-dents at UA are not only from the United States but from the school plays a distinctive rule in inteivultural and international in-ternational education. Accredited Accred-ited by the Southern Association Associa-tion of Colleges and Schools, the University has a larger enrollment en-rollment of American students than any other school abroad. Classes are taught in English En-glish by an internationally ;rained faculty but practically all students learn Spanish not only in the classroom but through their association with the people of Mexico, Most of them live in college-approved i dents find that the capital of Mexico offers a myriad of activities. ac-tivities. To increase their knowledge of the country, students go on University-sponsored trips to the Zapotcc ruins of Monte Alban in Oaxaca; the arch-eological arch-eological zone of Teotihuacan; the tropical resort of Acapulco; and tlie ceramic and copper center of the Tarasean Indians In-dians of Patcuaro. The meaning of education lias been augmented for MisSj IJunderson by an acquaintance! with a culture different from her own and by the opportunity opportun-ity to see the United States and its relation to its southern neighbors from a new point of view. private Mexican homes and as a result become familiar with the customs and daily lives of their hosts. Miss Bunderson is a graduate gradu-ate of Cedar High School and has studied at tile College of Southern Utah. In Mexico, Miss Bunderson finds her intellectual perspective perspec-tive widened by her venture into an environment in which lass-walled skyscrapers stand within a few miles of ancient pyramids. Whether attending the folklore ballet or the bullfights, bull-fights, visiting Aztec remains or art exhibits, listening to nariachi music or going boating at Xochimilco, stu- |