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Peace Corps Knowledgeables Attempt to Define Program Editor's note: This is the first in a five-part series on the Peace Corps volunteer printed in conjunction with Peace Corps Week, which be gins today. The Peace Corps means many things to many people. A volunteer, a stall member, a host country citizen, a politi cian. a social scientist, a histor ian, an educator—all bring their special experiences to bear on defining the essential nature of the Peace Corps. Their insights form a composite picture of what the agency is trying to achieve, and how well it is succeeding. A host country official: "You are the first European who ever asked me to help him. The oth ers were always telling us what to think.” Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey: "Dollar for dollar, you get more rewards and re turns out of the investment in the Peace Corps than almost anything we are doing as a gov ernment and as a country.” Jack Vaughn, Peace Corps Di rector: “We don’t seek sanctity, and we try not to be santimoni ous about what we are trying to do.” A host country official in Af rica: "It is one thing to lean on other nations for materials and technical help. It is more painful to have to lean on out siders for your spiritual growth. It puts your national soul in the care and keeping of oth ers. But at this point in Afri can's history, this is the kind of aid that we are most vitally in need of, and this is the kind of aid your young, wide-eyed volunteers can most freely give.” A volunteer: "Experience, adaptation and realization ham mer away at high-flown ideas and occasionally shatter them. . . . But ideals really don’t get lost . . . they turn up when an awfully bad kid finally shapes up. or an insolent teenage girl hugs you and says, 'thanks.'" Bill Moyers, publisher of "Newsday” and former Peace Corps deputy director: "Una bashedly altruistic in motive, but unashamedly skilled in the techniques of political change— this is the Peace Corps . . . Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism." A volunteer: "That my Nige rian friends trust me is no reason for them to trust Washington, or forgive Birming ham: but something is there which was not there before, and which the world is the better for having.” David Riesman, sociologist: "Many volunteers return with a better sense of the United States, not only for having seen another culture and lived in it intensely, but for having ob served themselves and other volunteers inside the culture, thus beginning to discover what is American about Amer ica.” Harris Wofford, a former Peace Corps associate director and now president of ‘New York's State University College at Old Westbury: "To find its context may be the major prob lem of the Peace Corps' next five Prose For Cons Upward Bound at Oregon State Prison needs 50,000 vol umes to replace the prison’s library books destroyed in the fire of March 9 Fiction, non-fiction, text or reference books are usable. Encyclopedias and dictionaries are also urgently needed for school classes to reopen in 30 days. Any donations can be deposit ed in boxes at the EMU or the Co-op. For further information call 364-2171, ext. 1141 in Salem. W.U.S. WEEK “Ugly Man” and "Red Hot Prof” Contests 3-Legged Basketball Tourney • MONDAY Sorority Skit Preliminary 7:30 Mac Court • TUESDAY W.U.S. Auction 4:00 EMU Ballroom “Lamboda Craz” Dance 7:30 EMU Ballroom • THURSDAY Turtle Races “Ugly Man” Parade 4:00 EMU Hello Walk • FRIDAY Car Destruction Contest 4:00 Hayward Field • SATURDAY “Small Crowd” Dance 8:00 Mac Court years: to find its context not just within the government, but within American higher educa tion. with colleges and univer sities, with faculties and with the new post-Kennedy student generation: within American politics and society at large: and within the process of de velopment, nation building and social revolution underway in the rest of the world commu nity." A volunteer: "We can never again become the people we were before we came to Afri ca. But then, we would not want to.” C. Code Review: Is Oregon Liable? “Is the Conduct Code out dated? Should the University be responsible for student con duct? Do we need a contempt of court provision? Is the court system relevant?” These questions will be dis cussed at noon Tuesday on the Free Speech Platform on the Erb Memorial Union Terrace in a public hearing sponsored by the ASUO. Three speakers are scheduled, but any member of the audience will also be given use of the platform. Presenting views will be Clint Archibald, ASUO senator; John ny Holloway, president of the Black Student Union; and Scott Farleigh, ASUO president. The hearing is second in an ASUO contact and awareness series. Next week a curriculum analysis is planned. Blood Bonk The Lane Memorial Blood Bank needs the following types of blood for its special account which serves the faculty, students, and staff of the University. Donor hours are 1:30 to 4:00 p.ro. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and by appointment from 3 to 7 p.m Fri day. The Blood Bank Is located at 740 E. 13th. Units Needed Type 4 A Positive 2 A Negative 6 O Positive 1 O Negative 2 B Positive 2 AB Positive r "GET THE MOST FOR YOUR MONEY" One Hour “‘Martfoiling” the moit in DRY CLEANING £ LAUNDRY In by IOsOO out by 4t00 ^ Alteration* and Repairs 1330 Hilyard Alio 66 W 29th In eighteen knrat gold. Sets $250 am1, togcilter, the two n. Vc one of the mo»t dramatic of bridal eiwemble*. Unlike conventional adltalre*, the diamond In the engagement ring *weep« down and over the w-l-d-e, w-I-d-e wedding band that might have come out of your great-grandmother’* jewel box. 1027 Willamette 345-0354 JEWELRY Special Public Convocation on the Kerner Report Speaker PRESIDENT ARTHUR S. FLEMMING Tonight 7:30 p.m. EMU Ballroom Thi* will also be the first class meeting for all 409 SEARCH Seminars on the Kerner Report.
