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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
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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.
Currently, a tariff is assessed]
the full value of a product once if
imported into the finited States
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