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.
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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.
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charges that radicals hold 37 key
fobs in Washington. In Ibis week's
Saturday Evening Post, Sen. Gold'
water rips into left-wing extremists.
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into the hands of the Kremlin."
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