University Daily Kansan, February 17, 1982
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Peace Corps offers students tough jobs
Volunteers needed
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
Volunteers for the Peace Corps go through rough and trying times, but representatives attempting to get KU students to volunteer their services to Third World countries say, "It's the toughest job you ever'll love."
"Some people call it the best graduate school in international relations," Mary Lou Johnson, Peace Corps recruiter and former volunteer, said at the University of Kansas yesterday.
Johnson and other Peace Corps employees were recruiting on campus yesterday and will be doing the same today. They have set up an information booth outside the Kansas Union dell and also are speaking to classes.
"There are programs for almost anyone with a college degree," Mike McGirr another recruiter, said.
He said anyone older than 18 with either a degree or skills in agriculture, science, math, health services or languages could apply.
Volunteers work for two years for a minimal monthly salary to help improve conditions in developing countries.
"It's always kind of been Peace Corps' philosophy that volunteers live at the same level as the people they're working with," McGirr said.
"We were buried in that Action agency, it's to our benefit to get out." Johnson said. Action includes such services as providing Service to America, known as VISTA.
"Living conditions vary even within one country. Some could have electricity and running water while some could have a mud house and a well."
Although VISTA and other agencies might have their budgets cut or phased out, the Peace Corps will keep the same amount of money. McGirr said.
Johnson said the Peace Corps had been a part of Action, a federal relief agency, but that by Feb. 20 Peace Corps would be a separate division.
"We're holding our own," Johnson said.
Johnson said the Kansas City, Kan.
Peace Corps office covered Nebraska,
Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Her visit on
campus this week is one of two semiannual visits recruiters make to KU.
Johnson said applicants to fill out a lengthy application. She estimated that 50% of the applications.
Fifty-eight countries send requests to the Peace Corps headquarters in
Washington, D.C., and local offices match applicants with needs.
Volunteers go through six weeks to three months of training depending upon the complexities of the language culture of the countries, Johnson said.
"You're putting a person in a Third World country they know nothing about," she said.
For example, she said that French was the official language in Zaire, but there were actually 600 languages in Africa, spreading upon ethnic groups.
"This is a very difficult job. It's very rewarding, but it's difficult," McGirr said
Johnson said her stint in Jamaica exposed her to things she could not have seen without leaving this country.
"It's an opportunity to work and live day to day and not as a tourist,"
Johnson said. "You're so much more a part of the country than someone in on vacation."
"I've worked on Jamaican development, and I have friends I can always go back to. If it ever gets too cold, that's where I'll go."
McGirr said, "I just think of the personal ties you build rather than the work-related accomplishments."
McGirr stayed three years in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
The recruiters said interested students in any level at the University could sign up for interviews for Thursday and Friday at the job placement office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
A free film, "The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love," will be shown tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in 4033 Wesson.
On the record
Hurglar's stole more than $3,300 worth of stereo equipment from parked cars at the Meadowbrook Apartments parking lots, 15th Street and Crestine Drive, sometime between Sunday evening and Monday morning, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Burglar robbed seven cars parked in the Walden Court, Weston Square, Dover Square and Camden Manor parking lots.
After breaking four car windows and using an unlocking tool to enter three other locked cars, burglar stole four stereo cassette deckes, two stereos, two power boosters, 31 speakers and 31 cassette tape.
There are no suspects, police said.
BURGLARS *STOLE* a $500 rocking chair from a storage bin at
Bristol Terrace, which is also a
Meadowbrook building, sometime
between Jan. 24 and last Monday,
police said.
BURGLARS STOLE $150 worth of equipment from a parked car at 2810 University Drive sometime between 4 p.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday. Burglar's took a radar detector after possibly using a coat hanger to open the car door, police said. There are no suspects.
THEVES TOOK $225 worth of men's rings about 3 p.m. Sunday from a residence at 101 West Vermont St. in the city, where he resided and asked to use the phone and the bathroom. While one suspect used the bathroom, the other stole 15 rings from a jewelry box in another room, the said. There have been no arrests.
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