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Taste the Nations returns with food, performances and World Cup theme. 
16Apr trevechoesonline's avatarBy trevechoesonlineNo Comments
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Taste the Nations returns with food, performances and World Cup theme. 

By Michelle Loria Alvarado Executive Editor The international student council will be hosting Taste the Nations at Trevecca Community Church on April 17 starting at 6 p.m. “Taste the Nations is the one time you get to be in a room with people from all over the world and to actually get to meet them, and get to see their culture,” said David Moran, sophomore electrical and computer engineering major and this year’s Taste the Nations’ host.  At Taste the Nations, the International Student Council showcases cultures from different parts of the world through food and performances. This year the event will have a World Cup theme.  “This year we’re trying to have more variety of foods and also just have a theme based on something that most of the international community ...
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International students battle economic pressures
21Mar trevechoesonline's avatarBy trevechoesonline1 Comment
Student Life

International students battle economic pressures

By Kamryn Sanderfer Contributor Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash Global economic pressures are reaching onto Trevecca’s campus, and being felt by many international students who are struggling to find jobs and keep up with conversion rates.  “One dollar [in America] is 24.5 lempiras [in Honduras] …With that you can actually have a meal, so definitely for our parents to have us here in college, they need to work three times harder,” said Claudia Nuñez, a Honduran senior and president of the International Student Council. “We don’t like to do the conversions because we get scared to see the amount of money that gets invested in our education.” The Centre for the New Economy and Society reported on the World Economic Forum in 2022 that the US dollar had risen in strength b...
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