Wednesday, March 7, 1934
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Daily Nebraskan
On UNL campus today
Peace Corps recruiting volunteers
By Doima Sisson
For more than 22 years, the Peace Corps has been
working at improving living conditions in develop
ing nations and promoting cultural awareness bet
ween the US. and Third World countries.
Peace Corps representatives are on campus today
to talk with students about volunteer opportunities
overseas. They will have an information table set up
in Henzlik Hall and are showing a free film, The
Toughest Job YouH Ever Love," at 4 p.m. in the East
Campus Union.
The representatives will return March 14 and 15
to conduct interviews with students. Interviews on
March 14 will be in the Placement Office in the City
Campus Union, and in the Agriculture Placement
Office on East Campus. Interested students should
sign up now for interviews in those offices.
In recruiting volunteers, the first thing the Peace
Corps looks at is the skill the individual ha3 to offer,
Tom Lassiter, a representative from the Peace
Corps Office in Kansas City, Kan., Lassiter said.
Agriculture, foresty, fisheries, engineering, and
math and science teaching are skills in high de
mand, he said.
Other things they look for in volunteers are adap
tability, interest in the plight of the Third World and
an attitude of practical idealism somebody who
wants to help change things, but is realistic about it,
Gene Rigler, representative from Washington, D.C.,
said.
Students who qualify and enter the Peace Corps
make a commitment to spend two years in another
country, as well as 6 to 13 weeks of intense training,
Rigler said.
"It's a mutual decision-making process," he said.
The individual decides to commit the time and the
Peace Corps must make the decision to support that
person for two years."
The Peace Corps experience is a helpful career
step, Rigler said. It is a bonus on a resume and
provides a higher level of responsibility and hands
on experience than i3 given in the United States for a
person's first job after college.
In addition, the Peace Corps provides volunteers
with living expenses, transportation, health care
and a readjustment allowance upon return to the
U.S.
Most requests for volunteers come from the Afri
can region, Lassiter said. Currently, the Peach Corps
has 5,200 volunteers in 56 countries. The Philip
pines has the largest number with more than 400
volunteers.
Democrats seek local impact
By Ctacie Thorns
Editor's Note: This is the List cf a three-Fart
series on UNL student political grasps.
The UNL Young Democrats will be working on the
Democratic presidential campaign at its most im
portant level, said the group's president
Kent Kinzer said the grassroots level is the most
important because it directly affects the people.
And, Kinzer said, students can have their greatest
impact at this level
The YD will be doing telephone, precinct, and
direct-mail canvassing, but only after the Demo
cratic presidential candidate is chosen, Kinzer said.
He said that YD avoids endorsing one candidate
when more than one Democrat is in the field.
If the group were to endorse a presidential candi
date, Kinzer said, it might not be able to decide on
one. He said that YD members at UNL include a
campus coordinator for Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and
campaign workers for Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, the
Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Vice President Wal
ter Mondale.
At the local level Kinzer said, the 55 YD members
hope to help elect state Sen. Tom Vickers to the 3rd
congressional district. He said Sen. J. James Exon
located his campaign headquarters two blocks from
UNL so students would be able to help.
"We will have an impact on this campaign," Kinzer
said.
Exon also offers an internship at his headquar
ters, Kinzer said. The internship counts as college
credit through UNL's political science department.
The Democratic Party headquarters offers two
other internships, he said.
As president of YD, Kinzer has a seat and a vote
in the Democratic Central Committee, the govern
ing body of Nebraska's Democratic Party. Kinzer
said this gives YD more involvement and impact on
the senior Democratic Party.
The senior party also supports the YD, Kinzer
said, and allows the UNL group to have fundraisers
at its functions.
The UNL Democrats were reorganized in Jan.
19S2 after dying out in 1978, Kinzer said. The group
holds meetings every two weeks, hosting speakers .
who present issues that directly effect students. The
group also plans to co-sponsor a voter registration
drive on campus with the UNL College Republicans,
Kinzer said.
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National and international news
from the Renter News Report
Cancer patient survival
increas eo AGO. rep orto
NEW YORK There has been a steady
increase in the rate of cancer survival in this
country but the disease still kills more Ameri
cans now than it did 50 years r ":, the Ameri
can Cancer Society reported Tuesday. The
society said the 1984 edition of its annual pub
lication Cancer Facts and Figures "documents
a steady rise in cancer survival"
"When normal life expectancy u taken into
consideration (factors such as dyir;g of heart
disease, accidents or old age), 43 percent of all
cancer patients will survive five v eers or more
after diagnosis," it said in a statement accom
panying the statistical report. "The nation's
cancer death rate is slowly inching up," the ACS
"reported. The number of cancer deaths per
100,000 population was 143 in 1CC0, rose to
152 in 1940, climbed to 153 by It CO and stood
at 169 in 1930, it said. The society estimated
there will be 450,000 cancer deaths in this
country this year, "of which 143,030 could
probably be avoided with the help cf earlier
diagnosis and treatment." The society said
cigarette smoking was responsible for many of
the 450,000 anticipated fatalities.
Shulfc, Cc:rec3 dccli en cid plan
WASHINGTON Secretary of State George
Shultz verbally sparred with congressmen over
aid to El Salvador Tuesday, angrily accusing
Democrats of wanting to "walk away" from
Central America.
The argument erupted during a meeting of a
House of Representatives Appropriations sub
committee after congressmen accused the admini
stration of failing in Lebanon and of being wil
ling to spend unlimited sums on an unrealistic
policy in El Salvador. Illinois Democrat Sidney
Yates added, "The attitude of this administra
tion is El Salvador, will receive as much money
as it needs from now until the future." Finally,
the normally mild-mannered Shultz erupted,
"I really don't understand you people. Here we
have an area right next to us . . . There are
problems there and what you're telling me is
let's walk away," he said. ,
Hart vin3 Vermont primary
MONTPELIER, Vt. Gary Hart Tuesday
won his third straight victory over Walter
Mondale by a big margin in Vermont's non
binding primary. With 32 percent of the votes
counted, Hart had 71 percent to Mondale's 19
percent. Jesse Jackson was one percent short
; of the 10 percent he needs to maintain his right
r to a share of federal campaign funds. Oliver
"Pudge" Henckel, Hart's national campaign
director, told Reuters, "I am absolutely over
whelmed by the results. I never thought we
could take Vermont by this margin. For Vice
President Mondale to say that he did not com
pete here flies in the face of reality," Henckel
said. In a state where recreation, agriculture
and tourism are the only major industries,
Hart built his image as a defender of the envir
onment. Hart's victory also was attributable to
his positions as a backer of the nuclear freeze
and strong environmental laws. Vermont, with
320,000 registered voters, is the state where
the nuclear freeze proposal originated and its
laws on pollution are among the strongest in
the nation.
Canada pledges to cut erricdons
OTTAWA, Canada A Canadian Minister
Tuesday pledged to cut the Lndustrial emis
sions that cause acid rain in half even though
the United States has refused to embark on a
joint cleanup campaign. Last month, President
Reagan put off any financing of pollution con
trol measure, a move that prompted Ottawa to
Sni a.Protest note to Washington accusing
the United States of shirking its treaty obliga
tions to its neighbor. Scientists estimate that
about 60 million tons of acid rain, caused
mainly by factories belching smciie into the
atmosphere, float across North America every
year, damaging lakes, fish, forests and crops.
At least half the acid rain fallirri in Canada
comes from the United States. The pledge to
cut industrial emissions over 50 percent was
made Tuesday by Environmental Minister
Charles Caccia after he met provincial col-legues.