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Peace Corps Offers Advanced Training By DAVID BUTLER Feature Editor For the past two years the Peace Corps has been offering a special Advanced Training Pro gram for college juniors. Training for a Peace Corps volunteer, which normally is taken three months prior to active service, is extended for juniors in the ad vanced program to a 14-month project Holly Green, now a senior in English, was one of three Uni versity students last year who were accepted into the advanced program. Due in Ethiopia next fall. Miss Green is concluding the second “face” of what the YD's to Meet, Review Position The executive council of the University Young Democrats will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Student Union to discuss the po sition it took Monday that the ASUO Senate should not take stands on non-campus issues. They will hear Senate Public Affairs Committee Chairman Hen ry Drummonds explain the rea sons why the Senate has decid ed to take stands on Viet Nam and other off-campus issues. At a Monday Public Affairs Committee hearing on Viet Nam a group of Young Democrats questioned whether the Senate could accurately represent stu dents’ viewpoints since it is elected by a small minority of the student body and since sena tors do not run on these issues. The Senate had decided to take stands on questions like Viet Nam in order to instruct Univer sity delegates to the National Stu dent Association congress on their votes on these issues. The YD membership will meet Tuesday to vote on a resolution on Viet Nam to be presented to the Public Affairs Committee. Oregon Dally Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is oublished five tones in September and five days a week during the academic year, except daring examination periods, by the Student PubH- j cations Board of the University of Oregon. Second-class postage paid at Eogeae, Ore- 1 goo 97403. Subscription rates $5 per year, $2 per term. I Peace Corps calls the three-face ! program. • The first is summer training \ between the trainee’s junior and senior year in college, with em phasis, in Holly's case, on lan guage. • The second face is the train ee’s academic senior year in school, intensifying what he learn ed during the summer. • The final stage is summer training immediately before leav ing for active corps service. ! In the past, the second stage, the senior year, seemed to keep many volunteers from returning ! to the corps, sometimes up to 50 | per cent. Explained Holly, in many cases students, when they i returned to school, lost identity j with the Peace Corps. In several instances students were offered graduate study programs; and in other cases students lost contact with the corps, and therefore lost interest. However, the Peace Corps now sends newsletters to all advanced program trainees, information from program directors, corre spondence from the trainee's host country, contact with campus Peace Corps advisers, and mid - winter conferences. Master of Chess To Exhibit Skills Samuel Reshevsky, interna tional grand master of chess, will present a simultaneous chess ex hibition and lecture-demonstra tion Monday and Tuesday at the University. Reshevsky will hold a match against 40 opponents at 7 p m. Monday in the Student Union. The lecture demonstration will be given at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the SU. Both events are free of charge. A fee is charged, how ever, for participants in the match. Reservations for the chess match should be made by mail to the SU Games Committee. A j charge of S3 for adults and SI for students will be made for i participants. A charge of $3 for adults and $1 for students will be made for participants. Parti cipants are asked to bring chess sets, Staunton pattern only. TT— RESEARCH • COMPLETE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN REPAIRS • SPECIALIZED TUNING • CHASSIS DYNO SERVICE If you are not satisfied with your present service, TRY OURS trAJK rKICfcb 343-8037 GUARANTEED SERVICE 720 Taylor, Eugene Miss Green applied for the advanced program during last year’s Pease Corps Week and spent last summer training at UCLA. She will return to UCLA after graduation this spring for several weeks final training. While in the final stages of training, she and other advanced program trainees will live in small groups or two to six with families, or in small hotels and rooming houses, in Los Angeles. They will teach in the poorer sections of Los Angeles, such as Watts—where last summer’s riots made national headlines. The reason, she explained, is to prepare the trainees gradually for the drastic cultural and social differences they will face when they go overseas. Presently there are about 500 advance training program volun teers training in the country. Campus Briefs Orides will hold an ©pen meeting at 8 p.m. today iu the Orides lounge on the first door of Gerlingcr llall. All interested co ed* arc invited to atteud. There will l*c a YWCA leadership meet ing at 4 today in the SI*. Room to l*e posted. Petition* for Heart Hop committees must l»c turned in by Friday to the V office, Ger linger. Students interested in summer- »pi*>rtuni ties and projects, contact the \ W CA office, Gerlingcr, or the YMCA, third floor SI by Friday. There will l»e a YWCA cabinet meeting I at 4 today in the Y lounge, Gerlingcr 1 Bring a sack lunch. The International Coffee Hour will f*e at 4 today in the Orides Lounge, *ir»t floor Gcrlinger. There will !«e an Angel Flight meeting at 12 noon today in 104 French. The SU Recorded Classic* Committee will meet today in 202 SI*. General Panhellenic will meet for dinner at 5:15 p.m. today at the Chi Omega house. i Social chairmen are to attend. Please call < for dinner reservation*. Chi Delta Phi, women'* creative writing ♦ and literary honorary, will hold an open meeting at 7 p.m. tmlay in the New World Coffee House. The presentation of a manu script of original work will l»e the topic for discussion ami all interested per sous are invited to attend. Questions regarding win ter initiation will be answered, and pro- | cedure discussed at this time. Pi Lambda Theta will meet at 7 pm. today in the SI*. “Raisin in the Sun” will l«e shown by the SU Movie Committee at 7 and 9 p.m. today in 150 Science. Admissions is 50c. College Life will meet at 9 p.m. today at the Alpha Phi bouse. All students considering participating in publicity of the Canoe Fete are encouraged to pub up an ASL'O petition ami turn them in on the third floor of thr SC. For farther i»;n<rmation please coinact Skip Clemen* at ext. 1395 or 1922. Petitions for Junior Week-end chairman ships are due Jan. 24 in 301 SC. Interested students arc urged to fill out petitions be fore that time. “Not” staff will meet at 4 p.m. today in Room 15 SC. Be there. Kenneth Allan and Walton Music Corp. Present THE NORMAN LUBOFF CHOIR NORMAN LUBOFF, Conducting Tuesday, Jan. 25, 1966, 8:00 p.m., McArthur Court Tickets $2.00, $1.50 and $1.00, on sale at SU Main Desk and Mattox Pipe Shop Tour Management: Kenneth Allen Sponsored by Student Union Board Within the next frw yours the Pence Corps plans to expand to 2,000. Distribution of those 500 vol unteers "is completely dependent on the facilities the University is able to provide," she said. "I<an guage is one of the most impor tant factors in picking training sites.” In Holly’s case, four or live persons in the U.S. knew the Ethiopian dialect, one of them a professor at UCLA. Volunteers are generally paid according to the level of their host country. For example. Miss Green will be basically paid the ☆ ☆ PC Sets Records With 309 students signed to take aptitude tests by the end of the third day of the five day Peace Corps Week, the recruiting drive is breaking many Peace Corps campus recruiting records Over 75 students signed in the corps information tent Wodnes day to take aptitude tests, outdis tancing recruiting efforts at Ore gon State by almost 200. and causing enough notice for Time Magazine to send a reporter and photographer to the University today. Testing begins today for stu dents who signed to take the ap titude test for Thursday. Times and testing rooms will be post ed in the information tent and the Student Union. Recruiters urge applicants to bring their questionnaires with them when they take the test Testing will continue through the week until Tuesday. same as Ethiopian secondary teachers when she begins tench | ing English in u secondary I sctiool. In addition, the Peace Corps .pays all transportation expenses , to training sites, mid winter eon i ferenees, and to host countries The corps also hanks $1750 in the U S, lor volunteers who are on overseas duty. As a volunteer, Holly said, ' I I am simply an extension of Ameri can foreign policy. My direct cm j ploycr is the Ethiopian govern : ment." When signing up for Peace j Corps service, juniors who pluu : to apply for the Advance train mg program should write their intentions across the lop of their questionnaire. 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