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Ag mission faces fund shortage
by Steve Strasser
The corn has grown tall for a long time in
America's midlands, and now it should start
growing taller in Columbia, South America,
if an international agricultural program
administered there by UNL is successful.
The Columbian Institute of Agriculture
and the National University think the
Nebraska Mission in Columbia has been
successful, according to Clyde C. Noyes, an
acting associate dean at UNL's Agriculture
College.
'They're very satisfied with it," said
Noyes, , who is also director of the ag
college's international programs. "Some of
them want it to go on and on."
But Noyes said the Nebraska Mission, set
up in 1966 to help Colombia improve its
government and university agricultural
programs, is scheduled to be phased out by
July, 1 973 because of lack of funds.
He said the Colombian government is
looking for ways to keep the program alive
through grants from U.S. foundations and
foreign aid.
The Colombian government used the
same tactics to acquire the program in 1964,
when a delegation visited Clifford Hardin,
NU chancellor at the time. Hardin pledged
NU leadership support in staffing the
program, and the Colombians scraped up $4
million do'lars to fund it.
About 75 per cent of the money came
from the U.S. Agency for International
Development. Most of the rest came from
the Ford and Kellogg foundations. The
money, along with Colombian funds, was
enough to fund the Nebraska Mission for its
first three years, as well as to begin building
a solid agricultural institution in the
northwestern South American country.
Since 1966 about 50 U.S. professors of
agriculture have each spent two years
working in Colombia 12 from NU and the
rest from five other Midwestern universities
helping Nebraska staff the Mission.
In addition, about 200 Colombian
students have come to the U.S. for
post-graduate agricultural training. So far
130 have returned to their country to join in
the building and modernization job.
Many other Colombian students have
come to the U.S. for crash six-week courses
in agriculture under the program.
Staff members of the Nebraska Mission
help place returning students in the right
field teaching, research or extension
work.
The Mission also helps the 400-year-old
university improve its agricultural course
content and broaden its research activities.
The Nebraskans also help the national
agricultural institute build up its fledgling
extension service.
"The payoff from the program will come
gradually," director Noyes cautioned. "You
can't count success by the number of
graduate degrees produced. The real success
comes from what students do in their
careers."
Colombia thinks the program is worth the
money it spends on it which amounts to.
about half the U.S. contribution but Noyes
said funding after 1973, may be difficult not
only for Colombia, but also for the U.S.,
which is cutting back its foreign aid
commitments.
NU spends no state tax money on the
Mission.
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at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the
Nebraska Union. Regents Ed
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Hansen will speak on the
existence, or lack of, a split
between the Lincoln and
Omaha campuses.
The UNL Table Tennis Club
will have a reorganizational
meeting at 7:30 Sunday in
Henzlik Hall. All table tennis
players are invited.
The Nebraska Organization
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Laws (NORAL) will meet at 8'
p.m. Wednesday in the
Women's Resource Center,
Nebraska Union.
Members of Lincoln's
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Ballroom at 10:30 a.m. on
Wednesday. Bea Richmond,
Poorhouse Coalition, Lewis
Cooper, Human Rights
Coordinator Lincoln Action
Program, Gary Baker, Tenant
Advisory Committee, Lincoln
Housing Authority and Marie
Payne, Black Concerns will
speak on the problems of poor
people in Lincoln and UNL's
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Tuesday, Feb. 1.
Tutors of Nebraska Indian
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Thursday at 4 p.m. in 113
Andrews. Any interested new
persons may come to 113
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Thursday morning for
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Feb. 1 is the deadline for
applying for degrees or
certificates to be received at
the end of the spring semester.
Students can apply at
the Registrar's office
information window in the
Administration Building.
The University Coalition for
Peace and Justice will meet at
4 p.m. Wednesday in the
Nebraska Union. Plans will be
made to demonstrate against
the Ronald Reagan-Carl Curtis
fund-raising dinner, which will
take place Feb. 21 at the UNL
Coliseum.
The ASUN Student Services
Committee will meet at 7 p.m.
Wednesday in the Nebraska
Union for those interested in
student cooperative stores and
services.
Names and biographies of
potential part-time
ombudsmen for this semester
must be turned into the UNL
ombudsman search committee
by Jan. 28, according to the
committee's chairwoman.
Oenise Gamache said
anybody; student, faculty
member, administrator or
non-university person may
apply.
Unit, an art and architecture
supply store, opened Jan. 17th
at 1031 Q Street. The store,
sponsored by the student
chapter of the American
Institute of Architects (A.I. A.)
was financed by a grant from
the A.I.A. and set up over the
semester break by UNL
students Bruce Cavin and Hank
Hildebrand. The shops
objectives are, according to
Cavin "simply to offer savings
to students."
The savings, CAvin said are
up to 15 less than other
campus supply shops. Unit
offers these savings through
low rentals, volunteer labor,
and the non-profit status of the
store. Cavin described the
business so far as "adequate."
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1971
