New director hopes to inject intercultural flavor in education center
By CATHY COCKRELL
Of the Emerald
The International Education Center
(IEC) has been under new management
this summer. Elizabeth Benson, a 24-year
old graduate student in inter-cultural
communication, took over in June as
director for the coming year.
As an ASUO-funded, volunteer-staffed
office, IEC has a built-in distinction. What
Benson hopes to inject into an already
unique organization isatruly intercultural
flavor. Many students, she says, have the
idea that the IEC is solely oriented to
Europe. She hopes that the notion can be
overcome, and the round-the-world
resources available there will be used
more.
Information on work, study and travel in
foreign countries are categorized by
country and by university. Charter flight
services, student and youth hostel iden
tification, immunization, passport and
visa information are also available at IEC.
In addition, a Peace Corps representative
and a representative from the National
Student Exchange, which list university
exchange programs with the United
States, work at the IEC Office.
In terms of the traditional informational
function of the center, the new director is
enthusiastic. She emphasized the vast
wealth of opportunities abroad, including
modestly-priced programs.
But Benson’s hope for the coming year is
that the student body will express interests
around which the IEC could then coor
dinate events. For istance, a foreign film
festival or an art exhibit from a specific
country might be worked out if there is
enough interest.
A Search class in intercultural com
munication sponsored by IEC is a keen
possibility for the coming year. Benson
envisions the course as including a rich
mixture of American and foreign students,
and focusing on sensitizing its participants
to the culture-bound nature of our actions
and behavior.
Benson describes herself as a typical
case of someone who participates in a
foreign study program and comes back
saying that everyone should do it.
Benson encourages everyone to drop in
at the IEC Office in the EMU to discuss
volunteering, or the use of the extensive
TEC resources, or even possible events.
TEC’s summer hours are 10:30 a.m. to 2
p.m Its campus extension is 3721.
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Educated blacks
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WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Young college-trained blacks
continued to make impressive
gains in employment and income
in the early 1970s but the
majority remained behind whites
in most social and economic
areas, the Commerce Depart
ment said Sunday.
In a report prepared by the
Census Bureau, the department
also said the national median
earnings of college-trained white
and black women, ages 35 to 54,
averaged about $7,300 in 1969 and
in the North and West, median
annual earnings of black women
actually exceeded that of white
women — $8,100 to $7,600.
During the same period, young
25-34 year-old black men in the
North and West with four years of
college earned 86 percent of what
their white counterparts made.
Older 35-54 year-old blacks in
the same regions and with
comparable education, earned
only 71 percent of what whites
did, the report said.
The study, “The Social and
Economic Status of the Black
Population in the United States,
1972,” said 40 percent of all non
white families made $10,000 or
more in 1971, compared with 20
percent in the South.
But the report attributed the
higher family income for non
whites to the fact that black
women had higher earnings and
in many cases worked all year
round to reach income equality
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