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Aggieland Subway presents $1.50 Night Wednesdays 5 to 12 846-8223 109 Boyett Number 2 Ham & Cheese Number 11 Turkey & Cheese Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, January 30, 1985 STATE AND LOCAL litlisiflltl — - - Peace Corps recruiting students By ANGELA ATKINS Reporter To maximize job offers and influence career potential, both men and women need to know howto: DRESS FOR SUCCESS A workshop conducted by Charlotte Sutton. Thursday January 31,1985 7:00 pm room 201 MSC sponsored by: DELTA SIGMA PI The professional business fraternity All students welcome. Two Peace Corps representatives are visiting Texas A&M to recruit some of the 600 additional volun teers needed to tight drought and hunger in Africa. Former Peace Corps volunteers Julie Bryan and Matt Wunder are visiting A&M to promote “Appeal for Agriculture.” Bryan and Wunder will be in the Memorial Student Center until 5 p.m. today, talking to students about the Peace Corps. Though Africa has been a host country for the past 23 years, the “Appeal for Agriculture” is an addi tional response to the severe drought problem in Ethopia. Besides the immediate problem of hunger in Africa, there is a need to work on the long term problems of the poor water systems, Wunder said. The major goal of the Peace Corps is to train the local population to meet the basic needs of the com munity, he said. The “Appeal for Agriculture” is a program to get farming specialists to teach better farming techniques, he said. While training the people, the Peace Corps volunteers teach them to grow nurseries, to practice better grazing management and new farm ing techniques, Wunder said. One or two progressive farmers usually adopt the new techniques. After they see their neighbors pro ducing more, other farmers aaopt the techniques. The activities of the volunteers in volve more than teaching farming techniques. The Peace Corps does not hand out food, but the volunteers do mon itor the health of the children. When (c<l Buti lege Sii dexed i unaccei “I wo bill that of educ don’t Id tomatic the deci (con Peace corps representatives at their table in the MSC. a volunteer sees malnutrition be coming a problem in a community, it is reported it to the Peace Corps headquarters. Then help can be given before the problem gets too se- “Being a peace corps volunteer is probably the most complete experi ence anyone can have,’* Bryan said. “You learn a lot about your own cul ture as well as other cultures.” Although starvation in Ethiopia is the most well-known, there are 12 other countries in Africa in the same condition. The number of volun teers that are sent to each country is dependent on the needs of that country. To become a Peace Corps volun teer a person must be: • 18 years or older • a United States citizen • have 2-5 years experience in a field of expertise or a college degree • interested in people. After completing an application, the volunteer is interview, and the best qualified applicants are chosen. Becoming a volunteer is a 27- month commitment. The first three months are spent in the host country learning the language and culture of the people. After the volunteer is sworn in, he is assigned to a work with a host agency or counter part. Each volunteer receives a monthly allowance that enables him to live close to the same income level as the hosts. It is usually S200 or $300 in lo cal currency. At the end of their service, the volunteer gets a read justment payment of $175 for each month of service. “You learn patience,” says Matt Wunder former volunteer. WhI was stranded along a dirt roa;g i three days while traveling 18l)t|^ in Africa. His bus broke doit I;? times before it died and thenaup picked them up. Wunder saw® people have to put upwiththsif' of thing all the tune. Immunizations and health ie ing are given to the voluntcm fore they travel and after theyr in the host country. In the past 23 years that theft Corps has been operating, life has been taken due to | strife. Wunder said. Wunder and Bryan will i A&M Feb. 13-14 to talk will t terested in the Peace Corps. Cotton council wonts deficit reduced Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — The National Cotton Council Tuesday urged Pres ident Reagan to organize a biparti san commission to find ways to re duce the federal deficit. The council’s delegates also called for congressional, administrative and Federal Reserve Board action to restore a balance between the value of the dollar and other currencies. The council took the positions during a closing meeting of dele gates. Those represented were farmers, ginners, warehousemen, merchants, cooperatives, oil mill crushers and textile manufacturers. The delegates endorsed a 27-page list of resolutions. Many of the resolutions are call ing for improvements in American trade of fiber products with other nations. “Right now, our two major con cerns are trade and the farm pro gram, which will be taken up this year in Congress,” said Dabney Well- ford, assistant to the executive vice president of the Cotton Council. The delegates also endorsed a res olution calling for a temporary sur charge on fiber imports to help re store competitiveness in international market. The council urged an tional Trade Commission invei tion into the impact importsiirtii ing on the U.S. cotton industry. 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