"This office has seen that Harvard students are being fairly objective about [terrorism], and realize that the odds of getting hurt are not that great," she says. While one campus singing group, Collegium Musicum, has scrapped plans to tour Great Britain, the Krokidiloes still plan a tour that includes stops in such sites of terrorism as Athens, Vienna, and Rome.

But even among many of those who are going through with their Europe-after-graduation plans there is a measure of concern about terrorism. One of a group of seniors planning to travel together through Western Europe, Steven P. Dostart '86 says that he and his roommates will be cautious not to make their American origins obvious. For example, they will probably avoid wearing shirts with English writing, and they may heed advice to stay out of perceived terrorist targets like American Express offices and Harrod's in London, he says.

Dostart says that while he and his roommates wanted to go to Greece, fear of terrorism in an international airport with a bad reputation was a factor in their decision to nix a visit there. "We wouldn't fly into Athens," he says. They had thought about using some other means of transportation to visit Greece, but they have decided they don't have enough time to make the trip, Dostart says.

The group had been planning a European vacation since the beginning of last semester. One member, Erik King '86, says he has been counting on this type of post-graduation trip since high school.

But when a number of terrorist incidents in Europe followed the bombings in Libya, "we were sitting on [the Europe trip]," Dostart says. They picked up travel pamphlets about Mexico and Alaska and heard out their parents' concerns. Very recently they concluded that terrorism in Europe had sufficiently subsided, and bought non-refundable round-trip tickets for Paris.

"We're seniors--we can't do it again," says Dostart. "If I didn't go, I think I'd regret it terribly." The Quincy House resident stresses that while he and his roommates appreciated their parents' doubts, they wanted to make an independent decision about whether to go. "We're not kids anymore," he says.

Douglas A. Winthrop '86, another in the Quincy group, says his parents are concerned about his planned trip to Europe, but "they're getting acclimated to the idea," he says. "They weren't thrilled but they never said no."

Dostart and his roommates plan to meet up in Spain with another senior, Charlotte M. McKee '86, whose vacation in Europe is a graduation present which she discussed with her father last summer.

A week after graduation the Lowell resident will fly on British Airways to Great Britain--she purposely avoided booking on an American carrier--and will spend six weeks touring Western Europe.

The terrorist threat will keep McKee from visiting Rome, Athens, and islands off the Mediterranean coast as she had planned. "It bothered me at first, but there's really nothing I can do about it," she says. Like Dostart and his his roommates she now figures that even if sheand her parents had considered Rome and Athenssafe, time constraints might have prevented herfrom making stops at these cities.

McKee and Dostart both say they are lookingforward to traveling among a smaller than usualcrowd of American tourists in Europe this summer."I'm sure all the Americans are very obnoxiousthere," she says. "I'll be one of a smallerobnoxious group than usual there this summer.