Wednesday. Oct. 31. 1962 University Daily Kansan
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KU Foreign Student Praises Peace Corps
A Peace Corps project in Tanganyika, Africa, may have destroyed the African image of young Americans.
"Before the Corps volunteers arrived, Africans thought American youths were a careless sort," said Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika, sophomore.
BGOYA SPOKE in the Kansas Union yesterday. His speech and a film on the Tanganyika project marked the second in a series of events for Peace Corps Week which began Sunday.
"We students were wondering what strings were attached to the American program. We wondered if the Americans were trying to win us over to democracy.
"PEOPLE SAID we were ridding ourselves of the British. Why bring in the Americans", he said.
"The Africans wondered," he said, "how recent college graduates who were even more recently trained for Corps work could help in Africa."
Bgoya said the arrival of the volunteers coincided with the African struggle for independence.
"But," Egoya continued, "the Corps volunteers came to the African people, learned our language
Educators Attend Area Conferences
Members of the KU Student National Education Association (SNEA) will attend the Kansas State Teachers Convention, Nov. 1-2.
Herold Regier, director of teacher placement here said that SNEA membership cards will admit students to the convention.
The convention will be held at various sites around the state, Mr. Regier said, to bring together public school teachers and college and university faculty members belonging to the Kansas State Teachers Association.
Convention sites in the KU area will be Topeka and Shawnee Mission.
SUA Poetry Hour Features 3 Students
Three student poets are scheduled to read their works at the Student Union Activities (SUA) poetry hour at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
Delmar Wilcox, Omaha, Neb,
graduate student, Warren Fine,
Lawrence sophomore, and Gordon
Bennett, Lawrence graduate
student, will read and interpret poems
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and worked with our people. The Americans did not force their Western ideas upon us. Nor did they want us to do things for them for their own use.
"THE PEACE CORPS sent volunteers not to point out our weaknesses as a country and a people, but they sent volunteers to help us help ourselves."
The volunteers worked with Tanganyikan natives to develop a system of roads that would be passable in the rainy season and did preliminary geological mapping for development of unattached resources. The volunteers and the Africans also surveyed a network of small farm-to-market roads extending to remote agricultural areas.
"YOU AMERICANS sent us people, not just aid. The human quality is much better than financial aid.
"The volunteers," he added, "provided tremendous incentive and initiative for my people. They gave support to my people to develop the country and help us Africans help ourselves.
Bgoya said the Africans began to approve the Corps program.
"When America sent people to live and work with my people, it showed Americans were interested in people, not just the country.
Bgoya said the first Sunday the Corps volunteers attended a local Tanganyika church was "worth more than 100 foreign policies.
"We did not beg for the Peace Corps. Africans are too proud of their country to do this. Peace Corps is a give and take project. It brings countries together in peaceful understanding."
The schedule for Albert Ravenholt, American Universities Field Staff expert on Far Eastern affairs, during the remainder of his visit to KU:
AUFS Schedule Announced
Thursday - 10:30 a.m., Government and Politics of China, 12 Strong Annex D, "Formosa's New Prosperity," 2:30 p.m., Communications in Society, 205 Flint Hall. The Role of the Foreign Counseler in the Foreignities, William Allen White Reading Room. Flint Hall, "The Press and Mass Communications in Southeast Asia."
Friday - 8:30 a.m. Recent World History, 112 Strong Hall, "Red China in Travail," 10:30 a.m. 10 Strong Hall, Americn Prospects, 112 Strong Hall, Introduction to the Sociology of Asia, 1 Strong Annex F; L:3.0 p.m. 210 Flint Hall.
Sunday----5:00 p.m., faculty club, "Communist Club, Today."
Monday--8:30 a.m., 426 Lindley Hall, 'Land Reform and Its Role in Southeast Asian Development and its Policy,' 210 Strong Hall, 'The Foreign of Role Aid in Developing Nations'; 1:30 p.m., Comparative Government in New Nations; Strong Hall, 'Presidential v. Parliamentary Government in New Nations'; 3:30 p.m., Economic Growth and Management; 206 Summerland, 'Managerial Competence and Social Mobility in New Nations."
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