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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1981
Local
Flexible attitude, idealism essential for volunteers
Peace Corps offers a look at America from outside
By CATHIE FEIGHL
Battalion Reporter
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John F. Kennedy, the Peace
Corps is an overseas volunteer
service that gives aid to develop
ing countries.
The organization’s aims are to
enable Americans as individuals to
help Third World countries ac
quire needed technical skills and
knowledge, to give these nations
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an opportunity for contact with
Americans and to afford the volun
teers a chance to learn, through
first-hand contact, about other
cultures and mores, according to a
Peace Corps information booklet.
Mike Bowker, who runs the
on-campus recruiting office for the
Peace Corps, said being in the
Peace Corps gave him a look at
America from the outside, making
him more appreciative of this
country.
Bowker, a graduate student
from Boston, spent three years
teaching secondary science, math
and agriculture in Western
Samoa, a country in the South
Pacific.
“It gave me an opportunity to
see different cultures,” Bowker
said. “It was stimulating and excit
ing and helped me to decide what
I wanted to do,” he said.
Bowker said he became in
terested in agriculture while in
the Peace Corps and came to
Texas A&M University to get a
master’s degree in agricultural
economics. Bowker has been the
Peace Corps representative at
Texas A&M since September. He
said he spends about 20 hours a
week recruiting prospective
volunteers and giving out informa
tion on what the Peace Corps is
and what it has to offer.
“It can offer personal satisfac
tion in knowing that you might
have helped someone,” Bowker
said.
He said for people who have an
interest in working international
ly, the Peace Corps could be help
ful because it provides a chance to
adapt to life overseas.
The Peace Corps is interested
in those willing to work and to
cooperate with people from diffe
rent cultures, Bowker said.
“The volunteer needs to have a
flexible attitude and should be
somewhat idealistic,” he said.
Bowker said a recruiting drive is
held twice a year when recruiters
from Austin and Dallas come to
the University. Last week during
a recruiting drive, Bowker said,
he received eight applications.
Anyone interested in the Peace
Corps must submit an application
and then be interviewed, Bowker
said. The applicant provides the
Peace Corps with a list of work
preferences and geographic loca
tions, and if he is invited to partici
pate in the service, the applicant’s
preferences are matched with the
needs of a particular country, he
said.
Volunteers receive training
from four to 12 weeks in the coun
try they will be working in, Bow
ker said. The training involves in
struction in language, culture and
technical skills, he said.
Peace Corps volunteers
modestly while overseas t
maintain a standard of living it
lar to the average citizen oft
country.
While in the Peace Corps,if
volunteer receives $300 any
for living expenses, Bowker^
and then, upon his returnU
receives $125 for every montl|
has served. Bowker said allm®
al and health services areprovi
by the Peace Corps for the vo!
teers while overseas.
Bowker said the Peace Ci
prefers college graduates ortl
with working experience in ll.
field. Applicants must be I'J
citizens over 18, but there is
upper age limit, he said. Vob
teers are asked to stay in t
foreign country for two yeani
the workers may leave at
time, Bowker said.
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By BETH GIBSON
Battalion Reporter
The American Association of University
Women will present a workshop entitled
“Women and Work: The Challenge of
Change” Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
the Brazos Center.
The workshop was organized by the Bryan-
College Station branch of the AAUW Commit
tee on Women. Their goals are to identify
issues affecting women and to achieve a net
work of support for women in Brazos County.
Sally Sheppard, Committee on Women
chairperson, said the workshop will focus on
the concerns of area women who are in or
considering entering the working world.
With the number of working women steadi
ly increasing, the resulting changes in lifestyle
are dramatic for women themselves and for
their families, said Sheppard, a professor in
the computer science division of the industrial
engineering department at Texas A&M Uni
versity.
Rose Norman, AAUW programs vice presi
dent, said these changes, such as finding suit
able daycare, single parenting and assertive
ness on the job, also apply to men and she
urges them to attend the workshop as well as
women.
The workshop will include lectures and a
panel discussion in the morning, small group
discussions over brown-bag lunches and ac
tion-planning sessions in the afternoon. The
day’s activities will conclude with a film.
Dr. Elizabeth Meret, associate professor of
sociology at Texas A&M, will start the work
shop with a lecture on “Where We Are: Myth
and Reality.” Meret teaches a course about
women in the labor force and will address the
myths about working women.
Norman said examples to be discussed in
clude the myths that women are more unreli
able than men, or that women work for unim
portant reasons.
“Employers seem to think that women work
for frivolous reasons, like to buy a sofa,” she
said. “Also, most people think that women are
paid as well as men. Well, they’re not. Nation
ally, women make 59 percent of what men
make.”
Dr. Elizabeth Cowan, English professor
and assistant to the president at Texas A&M,
will discuss the topic, “Why Choose Acade
mia? And Why Stay?”
Norman said Cowan, an AAUW member,
will explore the advantages and disadvantages
of highly-qualified women taking academic
jobs rather than taking higher paying, more
competitive jobs in the industrial world.
Norman said the topic will also throw light
on two problem areas at Texas A&M.
“Almost 35 percent of the students herea
women. They need role models. Theyndl
see women getting someplace.”
A panel discussion will follow Cora
address. Pat Hensley will be the inoderatoti
the panel which will discuss the topic, “Volt
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“So many women are underemployed, ” said
Norman, a research associate in the oceanogra
phy department at Texas A&M. “There are
women who have master’s degrees who are
secretaries here.
“The administration recognizes this, that
they can get cheap, qualified labor,” she said.
“But they know they have many unhappy
laborers.”
Norman also said there are not enough high-
ranking women at the University.
“There are only 19 women associate profes
sors at Texas A&M compared to many men
associate professors, and you have to be a su
perwoman to get there,” she said.
Norman said the topic was chosen to slw
the importance of volunteer work andho*
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After the panel, Dr. Pamela Swan Hoi
administrator of the Strengthening Ci
Program at Texas A&M, will discuss “F:
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topic focusing on re-entering the job mark
For lunch, participants will break intosd
discussion-planning groups over broiwwj|
lunches.
The 90-minute discussion topics will inclui
re-entering the job market, local supportse:
vices for women, dual career families, assn
tiveness/interpersonal communicatte
TAMU Women’s Network, especially form-
duate students and projects and prospects(i
volunteers.
After the sessions, the large group will meet
again to compare small group conclusions
A film entitled “Pack Your Own Chute "t
wrap up the day’s activities. The film is aboati
woman skydiver and is “a good way toendtle
day on a positive note,” Norman said.
Participants are asked to bring their o#'
lunches for the day; beverages and dessert
will be provided.
Brazos Center is located at 3232 Briarcrest
Drive in Bryan.
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