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City gets VISTA workers
By MARK PENNINGTON Kansan Staff Reporter
Most people probably wouldn't think that a prosperous city of 45,000 with a large university and numerous volunteer organizations would need the services of VISTA.
However, three VISTA volunteers will arrive in Lawrence Saturday to begin a year of service to the poor and underprivileged in Douglas County.
Although many people think VISTA volunteers are young men and women teaching English to Indians in New Mexico or helping to build houses in Appalachia, the group's work sometimes extends into cities that don't outwardly seem to need their help.
Ocoee Miller, one of the supervisors at
"Even when we do find someone who is willing to help us, it is usually on a very 'ify basis', she said. "The hours they can spend with us are very irregular because of their jobs or because they have to take care of their kids."
Penn House, said the reason VISTA was needed in Lawrence was that there weren't enough full-time volunteers to provide needed services for the underprivileged. Penn House is a local agency that provides social services for the needy.
Miller said the three VISTA volunteers
There'll be paid about $260 a year.
They'll bepaid about $260 a year.
Am Moore, coordinator of the community office of the volunteer clearing house, said the VISTA national office had called her to see whether she could use some people for
University Daily Kansan
Fulbright recipients arrive at University
By KEN STONE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Some of the more than 50 Fulbright-Hays scholars who are coming to the University of Kansas this week got one of their first headlines from a faculty member. Meadowlark room of the Kansas Union.
They talked about long trips from their native lands, their first impressions of this country and the subjects they had come here to study.
The students, from 25 countries are at the University to participate in 6-week orientation program designed to ease their transition from one culture and language to another.
J. A. Burzle, director of Foreign Study for the College and director of the Orientation Center for Foreign Students, said yesterday that the students were here to get assistance in English and to learn the methodology of American education.
"The purpose is three-fold," Burles said of the orientation program, which is now in place. "We want to equip them to the educational patterns of the U.S. institution of higher learning, we introduce them to contemporary American language and help to improve their English proficiency."
The Fulbright-Hays scholarship program was begun by the U.S. State Department in 1951 to encourage closer relations between students and teachers of different countries.
"The idea originally was to allow American students and faculty members to study abroad, supported by funds acquired during the second world war," Burke said.
"But when funds ran out, other countries thought the interchange was so successful
that the United States as well as other
contributors money for the continuation of
the program.
volunteer work in the poor sections of the city, where there was plenty of work for them in Lawrenz.
The orientation center at KU, which is one of four in the country today, was one of the original 28 established in 1951 to receive foreign students, he said.
More said the three VISTA volunteers, Jim and Olivia Hillman from Eureka, Calif., and Ann Haehl from Lawrence, were in Kansas City, Mo, undergoing last-minute orientation before coming to Lawrence for their year's work.
"And we're the only surviving one of the original 28 centers."
"The emphasis was originally on teaching the American language. It is shifted to the English language."
However, he said, the emphasis of the center has changed over the years.
Mary Davidson, one of four composition teachers at the orientation program, said the students attend composition classes in English and English as a language learning English in a lab during the afternoon.
She said that because of their lack of knowledge of American culture, the students hear a lecture on some aspect of American life every day.
Olivia Hillman said she and Jim applied
Olivia Hillman program while going to
college.
Davidson said the student later found out whv.
"All the instructors attend the lectures with students and we are prepared to talk with them."
She said one girl had asked her, "Why do we have air-conditioning when the climate is hot?"
Burzle said he thought the students' acclimatization to Lawrence and to this country had been smooth as well, except for those who have had problems with jet lag and food.
Their ability to adapt easily and to interact well with the other Fulbright scholars is a function of their high quality as students and persons, Burlee said.
Army scans dam project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is investigating whether it has paid for rock that was never delivered to Clinton Reservoir.
Resident Engineer Kenneth Rowen said the only rock purchased for Clinton was used in the fall of 1972 for the access road and roads to the campus, which are involved in the two-mile Clinton Road.
The investigation began Tuesday after reports of apparent fraud in the nondelivery of rock to the Truman Dam and Reservoir near Warsaw, Mo., were published.
"We really didn't think we'd be selected for anything, but since we're both interested in this type of work, we thought we should give it a trv." she said.
Both of them are looking forward to their year in Lawrence except for one minor
It is assumed that the records of purchased rocks for Clinton are correct, Rowen
"ir and I have never been around snow at all unless we went skiing," she said. "I understand the winters are pretty bad here now, but they aren't used to. Oh, well, it should be fun."
Moore said the volunteers would be working in three general areas.
"The people will work with Headquarters in helping young kids to find alternatives to drugs. And they'll also be recruiting people from the city to work as volunteers in hospitals and other areas, for people who perhaps have not seen themselves as volunteers in the past."
"They'll work with the council on aging at outreach personnel in making door-to-door contacts with the city's elderly," she said. "We want to make sure all these people know the different benefits and services that are available to them."
More said that for the first five days the VISTA volunteers are in Lawrence, they'll live with a low income family. After that they're headed to their accommodations on their own.
Prof sees Soviet side of detente
By JACK FISCHER
The U.S.-U.S.S.R. detain has had mixed repercussions for citizens in the Soviet Union, John Alexander, professor of history and civic and Study society areas, said
Alexander, who recently returned from a four-month research visit to Moscow, said he thought there had been much change since his last extended stay in that city in 2016, and the statement by saying that Moskow was far ahead of the rest of the country in most respects.
"I was fairly impressed with the external, "material comforts," Alexander said. "In general, there is obviously much more importance of the rattle despite the wrench over the trade bill."
However, Alexander said, to compensate the unpaid amount sent by the company, he would send "imperialals" a $10,000 secret letter.
increasing their propaganda campaigns.
"I found the amount of propaganda very
deep."
Alexander said that it was very difficult for Soviets to get a balanced picture of international events but that the propaganda was less effective because it was too blunt to be believed.
Alexander said the Soviets he spoke with in favor of deafness and hoped it continued.
He said although the Soviets had little understanding of Watergate they sympathized with former President Nixon and they said they could have fostered detente.
Alexander sailed the Soviets fretened detente
a masterly pursuit by the new admini-
istration.
Despite the official Communist party party that totoits the lack of inflationary policy, the Communist Party has not achieved this.
said, the Soviet Union has similar economic cycles. He predicted they would be faced with increased inflation as they became more involved in international trade.
Although his research wasn't affected by the Cold War, Russia didn't exist in the American scene.
He said there was close control over subject matter taught and a faculty member could be fired easily if he became involved in a controversy.
Students are required to engage in some form of community service in addition to their studies, Alexander said, and they could be dismissed from the university for not doing this work unless faculty members intervened on the students' behalf.
"Unless you meet someone with a critical mind there is very little to talk about," he said. "You're likely to get a straight party line."
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