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 Macalester's Favorite
Son
"I left Macalester with the
sense that if one really wanted to, there is a lot one can do. And that if
one opens one's self up to things and you're very alert, you can learn a
lot, you can pick up a lot, not just from the books but also from the
environment and the people around you.
"I also left reaffirmed in my
internationalism, in the sense that the world is really international and
that we should try to learn about each other, respect each other's culture
and pick up languages early if we can. This is something that was very
much Macalester.... Perhaps it was that experience that led me to look at
the U.N. and se me on the road to where I got to now.
"I think that what is important
for education institutions, and this is something that I believe
Macalester understood quite a long time ago, is that they...have to adapt
to the realities of the world they live in.... Macalester, being as
international as it is, encouraging the students to go abroad and study,
and having 10 percent or more of the students being international, gives
them that grounding that is going to be required in the future.... And
that international and broad outlook that the students are getting at
Macalester is going to give them a great advantage."
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