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a-history-of-international-exchanges00

- 152 -*In every meeting, a Newsletter (one B4-sizepaper, written both in Japanese and English)was distributed, where a lot of helpfulinformation for foreign students at MU wasgiven, such information as of going-home andnew-coming foreign students, of the JapaneseLanguage and Culture classes, of theInternational House, of Municipal Housing, ofthings foreign students may need, and of some events to be held in the nearfuture.(ⅲ) ‘Foreign stdents committee’*The lunchtime meetings discussed the possibility of the establishment ofthe Foreign Student Association several times and decided to organize theforeign student committee. This committee functioned mainly as anassociation-establishing preparatory committee. The first meeting of thiscommittee was held in the foreign student room on the second floor of thenorth building of the Faculty of Agriculture with Roslan Bin ZainalAbidin(Malaysia)[Graduate School of Agriculture] as chairman. Mr.ToshioAoki, an official of the Student Affairs Department, Mr. Adachi of theFaculty of Agriculture, and Mr.Hirase of the Faculty of Education alsoattended the meeting as advisors. One of the most important and urgentissues was the establishment of a foreign student association, which wasdiscussed several times also in lunchtime meetings. Though there weresome changes of the committee members, this topic was on the agendacontinually. The first thing the committee had to do was to establish theConstitution of the Association. Mr.Hirase wrote the draft of theConstitution (both a Japanese version and an English version) based onthose of other universities, which was examined by the committee members.The English version was corrected by Mr.Butterworth. At the same time,the official name of the Association, its activities, or the election system ofthe executive committee members were discussed. Finally the officialname of the Association became ‘Miyazaki University Foreign SudentAssociation (MUFSA).’*In Newsletter No.38 (September 8, 1993) the committee appealed for theestablishment of the association to MU foreign students, and at the same