Peace
by Bart Becker
The Peace Corps needs
volunteers with farm
backgrounds or agriculture
related degrees, according to a
Colorado has new mascot;
SAM plans Ralphie roasf
Roxann Rogers
The Nebraska-Colorado
game Oct. 30 will haw not
only athletic competition but
mascot competition. There
may even be a "battle of the
heads" when Big Red meets
Ralphie.
"Ralphie" is the Colorado
mascot, a large buffalo head
worn by CU student Martha
Hill. Chances are UNL's mascot
"Big Red", manned by four
Corn Cobs workers, will
delighted to meet Ralphie. clad
in brown hot pants and brown
suede boots. Likewise. Martha
will enjoy meeting Big Red as
she is a former Husker fan.
WHEN YOU find out
Martha is from Lincoln it isn't
hard to figure out why she
wears the buffalo head and
parades around on a wet field
on a cold Colorado game day.
"I grew up on football. It's just
a way of life in Lincoln." says
Martha.
Because "I wanted to meet
new people and do new
things." Martha said good-by
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Annual Spirit Bonfire
WHEN:Monday, October 25, 10 pm
Following Pep Rally at Union(South Side)
WHERE: Bonfire at Sammy House
733 North 16th
WHO:Coach Bob Devaney and Co-Captains
Lincoln Army & Western Store
Corner 11th & N St.
Lincoln
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Corps
man who has had
a d m i n i s t r at ive responsib il it y
for agriculturally oriented
programs in India.
James H. Wood, who has
spent almost five years with
to over t0 per cent ot her
graduating class that went to
UNL and headed for Boulder, a
decision she said she has never
regretted.
The road that led to
Martha's duties as Colorado's
second Ralphie (the real
buffalo is the first) wasn't
exact Iv smooth.
AFTER MARTHA
convinced the Recreation
Department of the idea of a
Ralphie in hot pants, she had
to meet the approval of the
pom pom girls and the
cheerleaders. At first, they
were reluctant. They told her a
girl her size wouldn't be able to
carry tbe weight of the paper
mache head the entire game.
But Martha finally won
them over to the idea of a girl
mascot and has been the
buffalo head at all Colorado
home games this year.
The Nebraska-Colorado
game will have bit ct irony,
as it has been chosen for the
Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity's
traditional bonfire pep rally at
UNL. and the bonfire chairman
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needs
the Peace Corps, said Tuesday
areas of the Near Last, India
and Africa need volunteers to
work with agriculture
programs.
The emphasis on agriculture
Dick Lemer dales Martha.
The traditional bonfire pep
rally will be held Monday
evening, October 25. Students
wishing to participate will meet
at the Student Union at 9:45
and march from there to the
SAM house.
COACH BOB Devaney will
light the fire in the pit in front
of the house. Jerry Tagge, Jim
Anderson. The UNL marching
band. Corn Cobs and Tassels,
and the yell squad will witness
the burning in effigy of a
Colorado buffalo.
After the fire is lit. Sigma
Alpha Mu members guard it 24
hours a day until after the
game Saturday.
THE SAM bonfire first
began in 1963 for the purpose
of creating more spirit. "There
is no traditional game for
which we have the bonfire pep
rally.
Boren. . .
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bureaucratic chit-chat that falls
off into unintellibible
muttering when he gets as
confused as the audience.
KHAT IS HIS platform? On
agriculture Boren says. "I'm
okay on thai." On the
population crisis, he maintains
that by adapting bureaucratic
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is a change from the early
Peace Corps years, when
h u manit ies-oriented programs
were a more prominent facet
of the organization's programs.
"AS THE PEACE Corps has
matured and countries have
become accustomed to it, a
greater opportunity for ag
involvement has shown itself,"
he said. "The pagram gives an
ag graduate the opportunity
for experience that fits in with
his career choice."
He pointed out that India's
growing season, for instance, is
year-round. This means that a
volunteer in that country will
experience three limes the
growing season of Nebraska. In
addition, the volunteer will be
exposed to crops with, which
he is unfamiliar in Nebraska.
Many. of the jobs available
to volunteers are second nature
to this country's farmers, he
said, but are introductory to
the people of a less advanced
country.
FOR INSTANCE, the
transition from animal power
to tractor power is being made
in areas of India and volunteers
are needed to help the farmers
reorganize to make the
maximum use of the new
power.
Wood said many Indian
farmers suffer from lack of
adequate tools. "When labor is
plentiful and cheap, little
attention is given to the
improvement of tools."
health of the people must be
saved from the poisons being
flooded into the air, water, and
soil...subject of course, to the
health requirements of the
industrial complex," he said.
Boren's name was added to
the New Hampshire
presidential primary ballot
through the efforts of some
Dartmouth University students
who circulated a petition on
his behalf.
What about Nebraska? "If I
can get some of the s ame type
of support in Nebraska, I
definitely will run here."
He said Peace Corps
volunteers have been involved
in the "green revolution" in
many countries. India, with the
help of Peace Corps volunteers,
has almost advanced to
food-grain self-sufficiency since
1967.
THE WORLD-WIDE
focusing on agriculture
heightens the need for
ag-related volunteers. Wood
said. Home economists, dairy
husbandry and agronomists
were some of the fields he
mentioned.
He said the Peace Com
experience would prepare Corps
volunteer to go into
international agriculture
occupations when the two-year
Peace Corps stint is finished.
He noted that Franklin E.
Eldridge, associate dean of the
College of Agriculture, has
information concerning the
Peace Corps programs.
"It's an exciting, educating
experience," Wood said.
VISTA, THE domestic
equivalent of the Peace Corps,
also has openings for
volunteers, but in different
areas than the international
organization, according to a
regional coordinator.
Roland Blahnik said VISTA
"has gotten requests for
humanities-oriented volunteers
rather than for volunteers with
skills."
He said the organization
needs lawyers, architects and
business administration majors
for its programs. VISTA is
short on volunteers in these
areas, he said.
Blahnik said the VISTA
volunteer population fell last
spring as a result of rumors
that the program would be
phased out of existence.
"IT'S NOT TRUE, we're
still here," he said. "VISTA is
one of the most
securely-funded programs."
The volunteers are in both
rural and urban areas, he said.
They often work alongside
community volunteers people
who have lived in the area for
much of their lives.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1971
