Orientation Week at most universities is a difficult-enough transition. But at Jacobs, not only do first-years experience living on our own for (usually) the first time; some get to adjust to a new country, a new continent, and having neighbors from everywhere imaginable. Though the O-Week experience differs for every first-year, certain elements stay the same.

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Finally, the new Jacobs Basketball team is ready to play. Six guards, two forwards, and three centers from six different nations constitute the cadre after competitive try-outs in the past week. Most importantly, however, the team is now – thanks to the efforts of Jacobs’ sports coordinator Michele Lapenna – coached by Knut Aufdemberge, an experienced trainer who worked in the UK prior to his engagement at our university.

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Bremen-Nord is, perhaps, not quite so turbulent as the America Bob Dylan described in the early 1960s. His was a time of presidential assassinations, fierce civil rights movements, flower power, and protests against a very unpopular war. Our own times may be less politically tempestuous, but there is nevertheless a change in the air.

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September is the beginning! It is when Ethiopian skies bid farewell to the clouds of the rainy season and welcome the spring and the New Year! Daisies, called “Adey Ababa,” cover the highlands in gold. Young girls gather the flowers and go door to door singing the traditional New Year song “ Abeba-Ayehosh” (translated as “Have you seen a flower?”). In this particular East African country, September 12 will mark the end of the old century and the beginning of the 21st century — a brand new millennium.

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