Campus cancels classes in France

    France will have to wait till next year for students in Photography in France and Art in Paris, due to the war and ill attitudes toward Americans.
    The trip was canceled although both classes were full.
     Many students were disappointed but not surprised with the decision.
     "I think there was relief for the most part," Martha Gordon, chair of the art department and assistant professor of art, said.
     "We are already looking at next year, and the war will be over and things should be back to normal," she said.
     Gordon explained that attitudes toward Americans are not good for concentrating on education right now.
     Gordon said one student who was to meet the class in France had a bad weekend in Paris recently.
     The student was yelled and cursed at, and rocks were thrown at her group, Gordon said.
     "The canceling was strictly because of the situation," she said. "It was before the budget crunch."
     Gordon explained that this year would have been the fifth year for Art in Paris.
     Also affected were photography workshops that were to be centered on private estates in central France.
     Week one was to be spent in a 19th century farmhouse and week two in an 18th century manor house.
     The course plan called for students to take photographs in the surrounding countryside and in small towns and villages.
     The art department plans to reschedule the programs next year if the political climate has improved.