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...cultural difference with which foreign students have to deal while they are here lies in the ways they make friends here and at home. "Here, you meet someone in class, you talk for ten minutes, then you see them the next day and they pass right by you," Ngozi Okonjo '76, from Nigeria, says. "At home, you see someone and you stop to talk." It is a difference, foreign students say, that takes a while to notice. Once they do, however, they find it hard to ignore...
...Ngozi Okonjo '76 has a unique vantage point because while she is black, she is not an American--she's from the town of Ogwashi-Uku in Nigeria...
...Okonjo says that because she is African, the negative image of blacks doesn't apply as much to her as to other black students at Harvard...
...Okonjo thinks the image problem could be alleviated if there was more contact between blacks and whites. Though she views it as a shared responsibility, she says it would be more realistic for blacks to make the initial effort...
...said Friday night that she never put the apartment on the rental market. "Chris (Laurie Antonick's husband) called the rental agent on his own and told him the apartment was available. Laurie then told Okonjo to talk to the agent about the apartment," she said...