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Thursday, August 30, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
A corps at Texas A&M designed
for assistance - the Peace Corps
By MARK VIGUET
Reporter
Although the Texas A&M Corps
of Cadets is familiar to all Aggies,
one corps on campus is not so famil
iar to most students — the Peace
Corps.
However, new Texas A&M Peace
Corps recruiter Jerry Namken says
student interest in the group is high
and plans are being made to increase
exposure of the Peace Corps at the
University.
The government-backed agency
places qualified volunteers in devel
oping countries that request their
services.
Namken, 34, a senior agricultural
economics major, served as a volun
teer for two years in the southern
African nation Swaziland and also in
Kenya, a nation in eastern Africa.
“Anytime anybody finds out I’ve
served in the corps, it seems like they
know somebody interested in it or
they are interested themselves,”
Namken said. “The problem is that
people don’t know there is someone
they can contact to find out about it.”
He said the organization did not
have a contract with the main Peace
Corps office last year as it has in the
past, but the contract has been re
newed. The group has worked out
of the Agricultural Economics office
in the past, but hopes to open an of
fice in Room 103B of the Agricul
ture Building by the second week of
school.
“I’ll be available to help fill out ap
plications and I can answer any ques
tions students may have, or I can
find the answers,” he said.
Namken said he hopes to clear
some of the misconceptions people
at Texas A&M may have about the
group by giving talks and a slide
show presentation to clubs and other
groups.
“We wouldn’t drop somebody in
the middle of the jungle all alone,”
Namken said. “Even in the smaller
countries, there are a large number
of volunteers.”
Another project Namken will start
is a grapevine of former volunteers
now at Texas A&M.
“You’d be surprised at how many
people at A&M, both students and
faculty, have served,” he said. “One
thing former volunteers like to do is
get together and talk about their ex
periences, and maybe some would
like to help the corps at A&M.”
Namken says the goals of Peace
Corps are to provide technical assis
tance to developing countries, to
learn about the people of the coun
try, and to let the people of the
country learn about the volunteers.
“It’s important we take our skills
and help others with them,” he said.
“You learn that the people in those
countries aren’t in the condition they
are because they’re ignorant, but be
cause they haven’t been taught.”
The Peace Corp offers students
advantages upon graduation, be
cause they get responsibility they
might not have in an entry-level job
and good credentials for the job
market when they do return, Nam
ken said.
“In a developing country, volun
teers are put in charge of people,
teaching and guiding them in many
ways,” he said, “and the good repu
tation of the corps also attracts em
ployers, because they know it takes
dedication and harci work to serve
overseas.”
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ST. LOUIS — Geraldine Ferraro
aid Wednesday that a report saying
she received campaign contributions
from a convicted labor racketeer
"leaves an impression about my fam
ily that is wrong, altogether inaccu
rate and offensive.”
The Democratic vice presidential
nominee was again put on the de
fensive about her finances by a re
port in The Philadelphia Inquirer. It
said New York baker Michael La
Rosa made two donations in 1980
ind 1982, totaling $700, to Ferraro’s
congressional campaign and his firm
donated another $500 that was re
ported to the federal elections offi
cials this year just 10 days before
Walter Mondale named Ferraro for
ihe ticket.
As she campaigned in three states,
drawing enthusiastic crowds, Fer
raro issued a statement saying she
knows “nothing about” La Rosa’s la
bor activities and they “have nothing
lodowith me or my family.”
She said the contributions “were
legal and I properly recorded them
with the Federal Flection Commis
sion.” But she stonily denied what
she said was an implication in the ar
ticle that she might have accepted il
legal corporate contributions from
La Rosa.
“My husband and I have already
disclosed more information about
our finances than any other candi
date for president or vice president
in history,” she said. “This article
“My husband and I have
already disclosed more in
formation about our fi
nances than any other
candidate for president or
vice president in history,”
she said. “This article
leaves an impression
about my family which is
wrong, altogether inaccu
rate and offensive.,”
leaves an impression about my fam
ily which is wrong, altogether inac
curate and offensive.,”
Mondale sprung to his running
mate’s defense, telling reporters in
Minnesota that no public official can
always be certain about the back
ground of every contributor.
“We do the best we can, but it’s
very difficult under all circum
stances to know the background of
every person who might contribute
to a campaign,” he said.
In 1982, La Rosa, 69, admitted to
a scheme to pay off corrupt labor
unions to assure labor peace on non
union jobs, the Inquirer said. He was
sentenced to a year and a day in
prison and served eight months.
The newspaper said the family of
John Zaccaro, Ferraro’s husband,
also managed properties for La Rosa
and lent him mortgage money on
several properties. But Zaccaro sev
ered the management connections
in November 1977, several months
before his wife decided to run for
Congress.
The newspaper said La Rosa, in
an interview, said he had done busi
ness with Zaccaro’s father, but, “I
never done nothing with this kid,
with John,” he said.
The newspaper also said the G. La
Rosa & Son baking company was in
corporated in 1973 with Michael La
Rosa as president.
Ferraro, in her statement, singled
out two La Rosa contributions to
deny she accepted corporate contri
butions, which are illegal.
May i
1984, is drawn on the account of G.
La Rosa & Son, flour bakery sup
plies, she said, “The bank on which
that check was drawn has informed
us that this was not a corporate
check.”
Another check, dated April 25,
1984, from G. La Rosa and Son,
Flour Corp., “was returned immedi
ately because it was a corporate con
tribution,” she said.
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Ferraro, addressing 4,000
cheering and clapping people at a
rally held in sweltering heat, at
tacked President Reagan for “ex
changing insults” instead of propo
sals with the Russians and said the
danger of armed conflict will in
crease if he wins a second term.
“Now as president he has pre
sided over the total collapse of arms
control talks,” she said. “I want a
president who believes in negotia
tion not confrontation.”
Ferraro said the election in No
vember will determine, “Will we be a
safer nation — or not?”
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