Responsibility Is Key in Peace Corps
By Barbara Phillips
Responsibility to the people is one of the most important things learned by Kay Smith, Newton senior, in the Peace Corps summer training program.
Miss Smith, who is now participating in the Peace Corps Senior Year Program, spent eight weeks in Portland, Ore., learning about the Corps and about Turkey, the land to which she will be sent next summer.
THE ORDINARY day in the program included calisthenies, instruction in Turkish, and instruction in such things as American foreign policy and Communism.
Turkish was the most interesting part of the studies, Miss Smith said. The instructors were natives of Turkey and were much admired and very well-liked by their pupils.
The group, consisting of about 60 students from all over the country, took their courses in Portland State College.
THE FIRST PHASE of the program included the instruction in the American areas and in Communism, and the second phase involved a technical area, which consisted of playing with and instructing children from the poorer sections of town who had no recreational area.
four more weeks of training will be required for the volunteers before they will go to Turkey. Another four weeks might be spent in a model village in Turkey.
Exams are being held this week to determine the winners of Rhodes Scholarships for this part of the country.
The library budget of $20,000,
an increase of $5,000 over last year,
was divided among 31 departments and schools.
The Student Council will make a thorough investigation of illegal practices in the class elections Tuesday.
Plans for the All-University party to be held in the gym Saturday evening. Oct. 30, were announced by Mrs. Eustace Brown.
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The work that the members of the group will do will be determined by the village in which they are situated. The general heading for their work is Community Development. This will include some teaching of such things as agriculture methods, child care, food preservation, and sanitation.
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THE PEACE CORPS volunteers will receive approximately $1500 altogether in the two years they are overseas. They will be allowed to travel anywhere in Turkey the first year, and to any neighboring country the second, Miss Smith said.
MISS SMITH. a Latin and history major, said she felt responsibility was the most important thing which she learned this summer. Flexibility also will be an important factor in the Peace Corps.
Balked by pass interference and costly penalties in Iowa State territory, four KU touchdown drives fell short of the goal in the third quarter here yesterday and the Jayhawks lost to the Iowa Cyclones, 7-0.
There are both advantages and disadvantages to the Senior Year Program, she felt. The advantage was that the trainee learns the language before he goes to the country.
They will be paired off, one man and one woman, to each village. The men will also help the villagers with carpenter work. Turkey wants more Peace Corps volunteers, so the state department will probably send as many as qualify there. The Senior Year program is also in effect for many other countries.
The disadvantage lies in the fact that so much of what one has learned can be forgotten in the year between the program and the actual work. The anticipation and the waiting are also hard to bear, Miss Smith said.
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