January 31, 2003

Student Group Aims to Promote 'Globally Conscious America'; McGill U. Teams With Foundation on Fellowship Program

American students in Britain decided to do something about always feeling that they were being put on the defensive about their country.

Seth Green, a Marshall scholar at the University of Oxford, has co-founded Americans for Informed Democracy, or AID, an Oxford-based group that aims to make Americans more appreciative of their foreign allies, and vice versa.

"I think there is strong resentment of U.S. foreign policy on Oxford's campus," says Mr. Green, though he adds that