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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021

MARYVILLE, MISSOURI

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VOL. 110, NO. 12

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After spending several hours in the B.D.Owens Library, getting study hours for her sorority, Northwest senior Bethney Pedersen decided she was going to go home. Walking to her car, she heard a car honk and saw another car stopped. As she became more aware of the situation, Pedersen noticed Kathryn Strickland, Northwest Fine and Performing Arts Department chair, get out of her car to help Harley Caudill who was laying in the crosswalk across from Lamkin Activity Center. Caudill was walking to her class in the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building when she looked both ways before crossing the street. She heard the car honk and within a matter of seconds, a car struck her on her right side. The driver of the vehicle was later found to have a medical issue occur while being behind the wheel. Staying calm and working with others around her, Pedersen assisted Caudill to her utmost ability. She offered to call someone for her and found Caudill’s phone which was thrown during impact. After oﬀering Caudill water and any other assistance she needed, Pedersen stayed by her side through the whole incident. “I was set to go to University of Central Missouri before I decided to go here. If this had happened to me and I was someplace I didn’t necessarily live and I didn’t know anyone and my family wasn’t there, I would want someone to come check on me and make sure that I’m OK and be there,” Pederson, a Maryville native, said. Caudill said that she blacked out after being struck by the car. After she regained consciousness, there were many people around her to assist her. After an ambulance took Caudill to the hospital, Pederson realized she was going to be alone at the hospital until someone was able to come. Pederson got into her car and drove to Mosaic Medical Center - Maryville. “Hospitals are, one, scary anyways. Two, scary to be somewhere you probably have never gone to the hospital. …. I was like, I’m gonna go, and I am gonna sit with her and at least let her know that somebody is there,” Pederson said. “This horrible thing just happened to her, like something that you would never dream of.” Pederson stayed with Caudill at the hospital until her mom was able to arrive.

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After almost a year of no international travel, study abroad programs resume. SIDNEY LOWRY News Editor | @sidney_lowry

fter almost all international travel in and out of the U.S. was shut down in March 2020, international educational programs came to a halt. Awaiting the go-ahead to receive international students and send Northwest students abroad, foreign exchange programs sat dormant. Despite hopes and plans for international travel in the spring and summer of 2021, trips were cancelled until this semester. In the fall, Northwest welcomed eight foreign exchange students from the Netherlands, South Korea, Belgium and Japan. Lara van Alphen is one of the current foreign exchange students that jumped at the opportunity of studying internationally when it became an option. She tried studying a year prior to now, but because of COVID-19 and traveling restrictions, she was unable to attend a foreign university. “I always was thinking about it when I was in my last year of high school because my brother studied in the United States, and I’ve always been open minded to other cultures,” Alphen said. “And so I really wanted to do an exchange semester when I heard it was possible, just to, like, learn from other people and meet new people from other countries.” Alphen is from Maastricht, a city in the Netherlands, and had to travel to Amsterdam to get her visa, but distance wasn’t the main obstacle in her path. Because of the pandemic, the consulate had a minimal amount of appointments for people to get their visas for international travel. When she went to look for an appointment

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to get her student visa, appointments were already booked full. But someone ended up cancelling their appointment so Alphen was able to get in at the last minute. “I was a bit stressed because I wasn’t able to get the appointments scheduled.” Alphen said. “If I was not able to schedule it anymore, I would not be here.” After obtaining a visa in time was no longer an issue, Alphen packed up and moved to Maryville for the fall semester. When she arrived, she was excited to ﬁnd out her classes were all in person. In the Netherlands, she said, they were still doing all online schooling when she left because of the pandemic. Since then, students in the Netherlands have transitioned back to in-person classes, but being able to start in-person classes right away was something Alphen said she was looking forward to. Alphen was excited to study in a foreign country, but having new experiences compared to the Netherlands is what she was most looking forward to. “I was actually really happy that you can just go to the bars, and you don’t have to wear face masks,” Alphen said. “Like, I know that in the Netherlands, in August we still could not go out. And I believe now in the Netherlands you can go out but only until midnight.” Alphen wasn’t the only exchange student who was happy with the relaxed COVID-19 guidelines seen in Maryville. Gerd-Jan Hooijmans, another foreign exchange student from the Netherlands, said he was happy about the mitigation rules in the community and the experiences he’s had so far.

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