Peace Corps 'effective'
The Peace Corps is the most effective program, dollar for dollar, the United States has in foreign countries, Philip Young, graduate research assistant in anthropology, said Thursday.
In the 21 months that Young was a Peace Corps member in Turkey he worked in a general community development program. Young said that the program was a loosely structured system of teaching manual skills and working with the internal programs of the Turkish government.
"The Peace Corps," Young said, "tries to gain development by working within the customs and culture of a country instead of against them."
Young said many of the United States' foreign development programs ignore the customs of the country. This kind of program, he said, not only hinders the country's development but also lessens the good will our government is trying to build.
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Young said working with the Peace Corps was rewarding, but it was not an easy job. A three-month training program helps the individual find out if he is equal to the strain of working in a foreign country.
Young said. "I got discouraged two or three times a day."
"The visible progress is slow."
The amount of good a Peace Corps member does is due to luck as well as training, Young said. In order to do the most good, a person must be placed in an area that needs the special skill he has to offer.
ROTC sections plan slight course charge
The Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC programs plan no extensive program changes for the spring semester, said their commanding officers.
There will be, however, a slight change in some course procedures. Col. Lancaster, commanding officer of Air Force ROTC, said guest speakers from different schools in the University will be invited to lecture in various classes. Areas such as management, history and speech will be stressed in this program.
The three services have a combined enrollment of almost 500 men, a slight decrease from previous years. Col. Riedel, commander of Army ROTC, attributes this drop to the new draft lottery.
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The Naval section of ROTC is planning their annual review of the cadets for May 1 in front of Allen Field House. The all-service review will be held sometime in May, Lancaster said, but a definite date has not been set.
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