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The Gold Bug, Oct. 14, 1966 3 PeaceC4rpsPutsNewSlant We Gotta Get Outta This Place Exchange Program With n 0.11.1 F. •• f) b,1 by KAY FALKLER 1'f!hashing an impoeeible situa- ,Part of Negro College Plannet! Vn JU I fOIRlnn r'fO rem In the August 29th issue of ticn: The phrase "I doubt that" (lIf"ticle has become an integral Ihe following 1I Newsweek Imdm' thc srmllYlvhat lIUWy campus vocabulanes. A8k appeared lIebld()!IS hcading of "Indivwual- ~ny ten l)e?pl.c "Why?" alld see During the second semester of will be direct (students from ists": 1/ the Jna]01'lty do not answer the current academic year, an Clark will live in vacated rooms "With his Lincolnesque whisk- "Why not?" Earl Francis wa.s a exchange program will be initi- of Western Maryland par-tiel- ers sprouting under a shiny, bald man who had di8c01!cred a .way ated between Western Maryland pants), the prior approval of pate and his wiry body nut- 10 bca,t Uw sY81.6'111,to Pitt It m College and Clark College, a roommates will also be necea- brown from the sun, chipper the words of William Golctm.an school traditionally operated for eary. ' ~i:;l:l~~~~ ~:O;I~a~i~i:,t~!' Il~~;~~ heTt~d;;~n~I::,~ed:;~~I~~e'::TI'hllt2':,~;:.'T~i~a~~Og;~m ~~\~n~~ , ~h.e exchange program, which ~h:t~!~-~~n~:::~~d~::s~~~n!i;~ ~ai~ft:a:I~'~:~,~~e1Vt:~::;ntO;:~ ~~I:efac~~~~~e~~e:!u:;~!S ~~~ ~iee~I~1.;~~t~~~i~~~e~i:;~~~~: high on a grass-covered ridge on glly one iast puzzle to solve. schools directly exchanging ell, ;ePlesents the desi rc on the a slope of the Catalina Moun- Francis m.ade the question clear places fOJ"a week to ten days in den of \~h faculty and stu- tains overlooking a vast stretch to e"Vcryone. In fact, he e"v(ln the first part of March, 1967. bents of estern .Marylan~ to of Arizona desert, Francis two drew 118.a picture. Amazing as it Participating students will have osit.iv. conc;'etely l~vol;ed ill a years ago staked a gold-mine eeome he had an a.n810el·to that to have the permission of all of pOSIlve a.cbon to lm~to.ve hu- claim not far from the spot one, too. their instructors, and will be culf ~e l atl,ons across lac;a1 and where Buffalo Bill Cody once "Thoro is a way, a way fully responsible for the work cut;u,althlines. By sharm g to- lost n fortune trying to mine one ORt of the wOl"ld, Ol(t of they miss during the time they ge da e even~ of a wee' k ~r of Ilis. Francis had quit his job the wm-ld." are at Clark. Since the exchange i:\o;~~ ~~a~ C~tu~~~~a,:rl~sd~~ Left, U. S. Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood and Peace :~r~~~::,'ai! t~;;~bOft~:np~~~~~t~~~ _.... .. ~:~~:hc,~~~:c~r:osn:1 S;I;i~n:;~~~~ e fho:~~SghV~I~;~~~~di~~C~~m?c~l:i~~he:'~~r:: a~~til~ kifl di~~~~~~ ~;:~~l ~~eun::~~I~t~:;r. so~rut ui~ ~~;:nl..e~e~~~I;~~~a~~i~r;ea~~c~~~; bearing parasites. was,:'t really gold FranCIS '~~s of the week-long exchange this Peace Corps trainees are campsite: Train the Volunteers looklllg for. It was. fre~dom. A year, next year Western Mary_ getting out of the classrooms at the university, then send m~n ~anhbe]"te~ I~ \ e m~~- land and .Clark will hopefully :;!e d~~d!I~~eth~eJ:;:~~~~s a~! ~~:f~in~~va~t f~~e e~~~~~~it:e~~ ~~~~'t ha~e ~ epunch =a~?Ck o~ ~O) I ~Ol.lLON~T ~~~;~ei~~e~e ~~~deB:~~e,~~~rc!~~ training in the big-eity slums, ~ew Mexico, :Volunt.eers tra!n- ta~e ?rde.rs f~on~ \?os~. i in Go TO ~'TI-tE 5TUOtMT, J'y a fu~1 academic load in ~he Puerto Rican rain forcsts, Illg for work III Lahn America Flancis r:n me IS c~.m T"'VE,.lI,.R~!!.~·~NO exchangmg school and restde h Indian reservations and Israel spend. seve~al wee~s in SP.anish- the old fashton wa Y ~a In;h: ~ _1""1 there for the entire semester. kibbutzim (cooperative farms). speaking VIllages m the Sierras. few dOllfrs .a mo~t l~o~h SURE. I WOU~ i The students involved from While the Peace Corps still TtesCo.lulm~~a ~niverdsit~ S~:ool ~~::t~ogl~~~m~; ~heg~~untaei~~ ~A¥~T8~f1';~~Q,waa I Western Maryland will probably ~~~~ns,;;t~v~~~~::rSa~ndP~~~:~~ ~nto ~~:nish o~ar~:~: s ral CBS~r~~ ~~w~~ra~fci~~~o~I;~:a~a~~ TH ....T NI~UT) At40.... be resident juniors and'seniors sities, the emphasis now is on . Some programs brmg the for- item for the home he was build- (or exceptional sophomores) and practice instead of book·learn- elgn cult,ure. ~o the camp.us. A.t ing from the granite of his mine will be chosen on the basis of mg. the. UlllVCISlty of M~ssourl, shaft. He carried up a refriger- academic record, involvement in At the campus training cen-. traInees ~et up a ~epah house ator, a 21-incll TV set, a bed, student activities, and general ters, scholarly teachers are in- r~plete w;th Nepali foo~,. uten· and glass panes for picture ability to relate personally and creasingly being succeeded by slls, ~urmture and trR:dItlOns- windows _ quite a feat for lI. socially. The faculty exchange returned Volunteers with first- for Instance, sprea~mg 5?W man weighing 125 pounds. But will probab1y be a direct de- han d experience. Discussion dung on the floor (mixed With then as Francis admitted with partmental one, so instructors groups have replaced lectures, waterd!t makes a :ood /flaS\er) an ~1fin grin, he enjoyed the\;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~::~~~o;~vi;~~,~t;~~;;~nij~~~~;~';~;~~~~~;~~ ~~~r;~~~~~n;~~~~,:~a:~~i~~e(a~ ~~~~~i;~.g . to t e epa e~e ~~~~:l~:~g~~eTI~~~~s~ppri~~o~i~:~ usually two thillgs at once)- ~v?n wIth. the changes m tric light, and desert flowers and can now opt to undertake a trammg techmques, some Peace animal skins added a deeoTative va:-iety o~ acti:rities instead of COI:PS p:rsonnel con!end that touch. Finally there were his dOlllg callsthellics. . t?elr major ,:robler:n IS lack of own paintings. Francis was a C01~;S,~:~~.rn~in:~dt~l.t~~p ~;:~~ ;(I~:. h~v:~~;:.c~o~,;:c~rda~y:f ~~~i~:~as:e';,a~~ros:l:I\~;YSa~~ I , the economIC and SOCialdevelop- language trammg and also have sunsets hung on every wa'll. \ ment of Africa, Asia and Latin to teach the Volunteers how to "It ~ok him a year to finish America, turned to higher edu- raise and kill chickens, grow the house and add a 'Porch and cation for assistance in train- vegetables, teach physics and a front lawn of rock bordered ing its first crop of recruits. The math, administer first aid, an'd walks. And then the government professors\ the Corps believed, even build privies. All these struck. A National ForestTY would have the inte11ectual re- things are crammed into 12 Service ranger politely sugg<:,st- sources necessary to produce weeks." cd that Francis was trespaSSingj competent Volunteers. on public Jand. Just as politely Out of Touch Professors But, as Peace Corps officials Peace Corps Worker Francis pointed out that Federal . law ,al.lowsa .home to be built on it now, many expJain academicians proved lamentably St th Th· a mInmg cIa1m. Bu.t the .ranger of the while t~IS waSI that countered ~~t t~~ ~~:I~sc;~t:i:~:ti~~ali!~~~ .reng ens als ~:~'~i~~e~u~~'I/~; t~:a~:~: ~::: their teaching methods, 'while l\Iargurette Norton, a f~rmer a profitable venture. ;:II~~l\?~l"Po~.~'~~~~~;~' O~~b~~ th:~~:~~~a~~~:r~o';::ne,~ ~~~~l ~~; :;:p~;~t~:i",J61~~~:;:'a~~~ ~~i~e;n t~~~ ~,}:;. ~~au: ~fli;hee::I ~ue~~el;n~~l: ~v~;~~they would !:te~Oi~~ke:;~t?o~~::~~i~~:er- David Sherwood, a training She recently retu~ned from were enough to ~ake me j'ich. ~~e~~~fo~ AS~i~~~:;na:~:r!~:! ~~~Ii~~nr:Ca:~era i:,g~ha~~:~~~ ;:;;d I~:~~; ~~~st :~~,e nobody meant great emotional involve- ~he also gave English instruc- "But that wasn't a good ment, which university class- han. to .adults, created an enough defense. And .after .a room situations didn't take ac- English hbrary at her school year and a half of hearIngs hIS count of." and helped two Thais to come claim was finally declared null While instructors admit they to the Unit~d S~tes ~ stu~y, and void, his a?peal was denied can't simulate the overseas sit- She has traveled WIdely m Indla, and Earl Francls was ordered to uati6n, they can, says Alex Nepal, Jtaly and Westcrn Etl- abando? his gold mine and tear Shakow, deputy director 0 f rope. ,down hiS home. training, "confront the trainee Peace Corps volunteers serve "On~ aftel'noon !ast week, wit.h values he's not used to, and for two years, including three Fr.anc,s walked hts shaggy at least raise the questions." months of tr~ining. They re- ha.Ired dog to the house of a Some of its own officials con- ceive an overseas living allow- fl"lend. Then h~ t.rudged method- tend that the Corps used to go ance and an additional $75.00 for ically back up the mountain. At out of its way to make an or- each month of training and ser- 5:25 p.m., just at sunset, he sat deal of the training course vice. By the end of 1966 volun- on a keg of dynamite a few yards (average length: 12 weeks). teers wiI! be serving in fifty- from his home and artist's easel "The idea was that training three nations, including the new -and lighted the fuse. They should be tbe most difficult ex- areas of Libya, Mauritania, never found much of Earl perience of a human being's Chad and Botswana in Airica; Frnnci~, ~ut the~ did ~illd his life," says Robert Tufts, an eco- Paraquay and Guyana in Latin last paJntlng: thiS conSisted of nomics professor who taught at America; and South Korea and the word life and a large care- the Oberlin College Training the American Trust Territory fully drawn question mark." center. in the Pacific. Tod{l.y we are living in what As training methods have Sixteen former W.M.C. stu- might be. called the. he1f_day of changed radically, friction be- dents have served among the the questIon. Nothmg 18 llwre tween Peace Corps personnel 25,000 Volunteers who were sent papula?' th~ll an lm~ol"Vable p)'ob- and some university academi- overseas during the agency's {em; we enJoy notht1lg 1II.o1·ethan cians has appeared. first six years. As of September =========1 t~~,~: Voting re~~~~~ha~eS:~012~r~f~e:~~~~~~ ~~'!~~i~~~l~~~:t~:~~~'i~:~ have up-to-date knowledge about to Latin America and nine to .. their special countries. "Some North Africa, Asia and Far The Homec_ommg E.le~tton re- hadn't been there for 10 years," East. "eal:d startlm-? StatiStICS. con- says one official. . -Applications and further in- ~~~n~~~s!~:.v1~~~~U~ht~~edl:O~~~ From Campus to CampsIte formation?n the Peece Corps are centrally located in the An increasing number of can be obtamed fron: Dr. Robert Grille and are open for the en- training programs offer a com- Colcberd, Jr., ~SSOClllteProfes- tire day, the student turnout promise between campus and 30r of EconomICS. was unexpectedly low. , ---; ele~~~n ~:~;e:statistics of the - advertisement - Seniors _ 75.4'i'o of the For All College Professors High on the Hill class voted. Great News! Junipr _ 61.2% Any game is more fun with ite-cold Coke on hand. Coca-Cola has the faste you • Are the first three rows of your classroom empty? Sophomores _ 59.8% never get tired of ••• always refreshing. That's why thinss go baUer with Coke... ~ Do you send your students to Nuu-Nuu land Freshmen - 40'70 after Coke ••• after Cake. with your Lectures? Although the Freshmen lllay If so take advantage of this Great Free Offer- plead ignorance since this was BoWed under Ihe gultlority of The Cotg·Cola. Comp<;,ny ?y, Courses at t.he Education Department their first election, the SGA WESTMINSTER COCA·COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Guarant~ ot:r ~Ii:!r:;. Back Into I~~~~IYth~~ 7~~ir re;~~;h~O:~:; '--- -' class officer elections. ~Vestmins~er! Maryland