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Article: Howard Seen as an International Mecca; Foreign Students Make Up 20% of Campus Population
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- The Washington Post
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- January 5, 1989
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Accept and adapt are two words to live by-at least for Allison
Glasgow and a few like her who share the same position.
Glasgow, 23, a native of Guyana, is like several foreign students
at Howard University. She has had to learn how to accept new customs
and adapt to a new environment.
"I made up my mind to accept my situation. When I came here in
1983, I was about 17 1/2. I knew it would be a different life,"
Glasgow said. "But I am determined {to succeed}."
The Guyanese native, who attended High Point High School in
Beltsville when she first moved here, is one of many international
students among Howard's diverse population.
According to the most recent statistics published in the ...