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Peace Corps weathers setbacks
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Writer
The Peace Corps has weathered an "appalling" attrition rate and some poorly designed service programs to become a major force in the world, a Peace Corps recruiter said yesterday.
"In the early days, the Peace Corps was looking to be very big and very visible to get the attention of the government," Congress, "Michael Dkx, area manager for recruitment, said. 'The corps succeeded in that, but some of the programs weren't well managed.' Now we're smaller but healthier."
Dix, a University of Kansas graduate and corps volunteer in Jamaica, is helping the university recruit a new Shelley Bock, Overland Park law student, recruit this week on the KU campus. An information booth was in the Kansas Union yesterday and will be there through January.
Bck, who was a volunteer in Costa Rica from 1794 to 1796, said that because the Peace Corps operated in more than 60 nations under widely varying conditions, complaints from volunteers were ineptable.
"I had a good experience, but I know that some say that they had bad experiences."
AN ARTICLE in the Feb. 17, 1976, Kansan
described the experiences a Peace Corps
trainee, David Scharnhorst, Wichita graduate student, had on Tonga Island. The article said Scharnhorst left the island after his retirement because of "horrible" living conditions.
Schambertor said Monday he didn't leave specifically because of the living conditions but because "the representatives of whom I dealt with and I did not get aloud."
He said the government didn't supply him with a house as he had been promised, and that he hadn't paid.
"They finally came up with a house. The only reason it was vacant was because no self-respecting Tongan would live there," he said. "I did not hold my ill feelings against the Peace Corps, but with the Tongan government."
"I DON'T think that my experience in Iraq is the average Peace Corps experience."
Dix said two recruiters had problems because of the Kansan story on Scharphar.
"When a volunteer comes home early, somehow that's newworthy," he said.
"In a sense, that's a compliment to the Peace Corps. People have a very idealistic view of it—they expect it to be something special.
If you've got your head together, you're not expecting good conditions. You go over
DIX SAID he disgraced with most critics who say the Peace Corps tries to impass the American culture.
almost wanting the worst so you'll be
surrounded because things are better.
"Frankly, I have problems with art and music education overseas, but that is a very nice way to learn."
The corps trains volunteers to understand and accept the cultures of the countries in which they will work, Dix said, so there will be a minimum of cultural conflict.
"If anything, some of their culture rubs off on the volunteer." Bock said.
DIX SAID that in the 1960s the Peace Corps was often accused of being a "front" for the CIA because the workers appeared to critics to be a potential spy network.
"There are countries where the Peace Corps was thrown out, but that was because of insensitivity to the culture or some volunteers who abused drugs and became a focal point of anti-America sentiment. In most cases, though, volunteers are asked
Dix and Bock estimated that there were probably 10-20 ex-volunteers on the KU campus, but they didn't know who they were.
"Sometimes people are reluctant to say they were a Peace Corps volunteer," Bock said. "People you tell say, 'Oh, that nice,' and usually about it. People think of it as weird."
Opening Season KU Women's Basketball Friday, Nov. 19—KU vs. Alumnae Allen Field House -- 7 p.m.
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Students with I.D. admitted free. Tickets for nine exciting home games now on sale in Room 6, Allen Field House, for $8.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAK WOMEN'S INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS BASKETBALL - 1976 - 1977
Nov. 19 Alumnae at Lawrence 7:06
Nov. 19 Tournament at Dale Mines, Ia.
Nov. 26-28 Tournament at Springfield Mo.
Ok. 14
Dec. 5 Clemence Junior College at Claremore, Ok.
Dec. 6 University of Oklahoma at Ok.
Dec. 8 University of Omaha at Lawrence 6:00
Jan. 6-7 Johnson/McLean State at Marvilles, Mo.
Jan. 7-8 Johnson/McLean State at Marvilles, Mo.
Jan. 12-13 Wichita Univ. at Wichita Ks. 5:00
Wichita Univ. at Wichita Ks.
Jun. 20-21 Kansas State at Manhattan Ks.
Jun. 22 Kansas State at Manhattan Ks.
Jun. 22 Univ. of Neb. at Lincoln 7:00
Univ. of Neb. at Lincoln
Feb. 1 Clemence Junior College at Lawrence 7:30
Feb. 2 Clemence Junior College at Lawrence 7:30
Feb. 10 Central Meadow College at Lawrence 6:15
Feb. 10 Central Meadow College at Lawrence 6:15
Feb. 12 Wichita Univ. at Lawrence 5:19
Feb. 14 pre-game game K.C. Kings at Kemper Arena 5:30
Feb. 18 Southern Mo. State at Springfield 5:30
Feb. 18 Southern Mo. State at Springfield 7:00
Mar. 10-12 AIW Region Championship at DeCayre, Ia.
Mar. 12-14 AIW Region Championship at DeCayre, Ia.
COACH: Marian E. Washington
All home games played in Allen Field House.
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