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Wednesday, January 17, 1962 The Daily Nebraska- Page 3 Corps May Substitute for Draft New legislation to be placed before Congress is designed to make service in the Peace Corps a substitute for the Se lective Service obligation. "The leadership of the Peace Corps has long hoped that the Corps might take the place of Selective Service," said J. Sykes, Peace Corps Representative, "but it was impossible to incorporate this feature in Initial legislation, lest the Peace Corps appear j as a haven for draft dodgers." Speaking at the Rig Eight! Student Government Associa-i tion meeting at the Nebraska! Center over Christmas vaca tion,; Sykes said that voters' support and letters to Con gressmen would be vital If this feature is to be included in new legislation, let alone if the present pilot projects of the Peace Corps are to be renewed and expanded. "It is our hope to have twenty-five hundred Peace Corps volunteers in the field or in training by June of this year and to have a total of fifteen thousand in the field by 15)65," said Sykes. Duty Tour The present tour of duty for llMMMnioiiMpiiiaMMrMMmainHBMnHiitmiii f ' Y fi WsS f Vx , s .x v5 - x ;: x x. vX v ' - : ' " 14! j W v I If r) 0 ,V i - : v, ? "Go in theah and win, lads!" Title: "In the Bag." Cast: Jim Brown and Larry Rissler, Magee's College Board. Starring: H-l-S Wash Pants. Cotton, '$5.95. Cor duroy, $6.95. MAGEE'S MEN'S SPORTSWEAR FIRST FLOOR a Peace Corps volunteer is two to three years, including a three throueh six months training period, he said. All nations who have re ceived volunteers in pilot projects have asked lor re newal Nations from all over the world have asked for vol unteers to be sent to their countries, Sykes said. "nrazii nas ,requi-ivu tremendous number of teach ers, which will be filled by college students, of whom only thirty per cent will bave teaching degrees. The major ity ' said Svkes. "will be lib- eral art majors In English, philosophy, mathematics ana similar subjects." The crvine need for volun teers both in college and out who are skilled in agriculture will be partially filled by stu dents who have degrees in other fields bat have previ ously lived on farms, he said. Life in the Peace Corps. however, said Sykes, will be no easy substitute for service in the Armed Forces. Barrier "After overcoming the lan guage barrier, which is out number one problem in the Peace Corps, the volunteer will be faced with crises in health and culture. "For instance, if he is in vited out to eat lunch at the home of a friend where flies crawl over his meal and his drinking water contains t h e bacteria of amoebic dysen tery, will he eat and drink the food and water or will he re fuse it, possiw offending his host?" A problem like this, said Sykes. would be covered in his Peace Corps volunteer training. Questioned as to whether the Peace Corps would drain the vital resources of our na tion in the teaching, medical and engineering fields, Sykes pointed out that we can no longer afford to measure our needs in terms of a Midwest or national frame of refer ence but we must share the personnel we have with the world to alleviate poverty, hunger and misunderstanding. Fee Card Pickup . Student Council members will be handing out appoint ment cards beginning today through Friday for fee pay ing appointments. All stu dents who are pre-regis-tered must pick up a card. Council members will be on duty from 8:30 a.m. to S p.m. including the noon hour. Basic 'Course 13' in 1894 Becomes Home Economics School of 1962 By Cloyd Clark Home Economics will join Journalism, Fine Arts and So cial Work as a school rather than a department in the Col lege of Agriculture, the Board of Regents announced at their last meeting. In addition to the added presteige of the "s c h o o 1" title instead of the "depart ment" title, Home Economics will now have its own cata logue and its own depart ments. The change, effective next July 1st, will permit the grad uate student to major in a particular course are rather than in general home eco nomics, Dr. E. F. Frolik, dean of the College of Agriculture said. The effects of the change on the undergraduate were pointed out by Dr. Florence E. McKinney, chairman of the present Home Economics de partment. Rural Students '"The change should erase Religious Heads Meet Thursday Sixty campus religious lead ers from the colleges and universities of Nebraska will meet tomorrow and Friday at the Nebraska Center for Con tinuing Education. Rev. Alan J. Pickering, University pastor of the Chris tian Evangelical United Breth ren, Presbyterian and United Church of' Christ will lead this state conference of cam pus religious workers. The pastors will represent the four state teachers col leges, the universities of Ne braska and Omaha, and Doane college. Speakers include Dr. Em erson I. Abendroth of Kansas City. Mo., and the Rev. Ver lyn Barker of St. Louis, Mo., both area directors for the Campus Christian Life. the feeling that Home Ec is designed for rural students be cause the course is offered in the College of Agriculture. A separate school should make the course more available for all students," Dr. McKinney said. "In addition," the Home Ec chairman added, "the rank as a school should allow Home Economics to be more prominent in the University publicity." The new school will be headed by a director, respon sible to Dean Frolik. The Dean announced that an ad visory committee has been appointed to help in the se lection of the new director. The elevation is the latest development in a course of studv which started as "Course 13" in 1894. "Course 13" "Course 13" was described as. "domestic chemistry, con sisting of two lectures with; four hours of laboratory prac tice each week." In 1896 "Course 13"' con sisted of "technical chemistry as applied to household econ omy. Qualitative and quanti tative study of food material in general, with analyses of typical foods, and methods of detecting food adulterations." The second semester course, "Course 14," consisted of "the chemistry of cleaning, meth ods of softening water, anal yses of soaps, washing powders, and polishing pow der, disinfectants and antisep tics." A School of Domestic Sci ence was organized in Sep tember of 1898 and ten stu dents registered for the course. The studies taken up in the School of Domestic Science included mathematics, Eng lish, physics, chemistry, po litical economy, free-hand drawing, biology, domestic science, an physical training and hygiene. "The aim is to make th entire work in this course ed ucational; to train the mind, and develop character in the kitchen as well as in the lab oratory," the catalog stated in regard to domestic s c I ence. In 1907-1908 the school course in domestic science was offered in connection with the School of Agriculture at the college farm (Ag cam pus). Two years later, 1909, the present Home Economics building was put into nse and Home Economics began the development which resulted in its promotion from depart ment to school at the Janu ary 6th Board of Regents meeting. The, original ten students of the School of Domestic Sci ence in 1898, has multiplied into the 355 undergraduate students and 20 graduate stu dents of the Home Ec depart ment in 1962. i 1 oldwzter blasts radicals in top U.S. jobs "The real danger to our nafton, says BarryGoldwater, "comes from the leftists in our mrfst.n And ha charges that radicals hold 37 key fobs in Washington. In Ibis week's Saturday Evening Post, Sen. Gold' water rips into left-wing extremists. And tells why their ideas play "right into the hands of the Kremlin." 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