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Chinese dinner set for Friday The Chinese Student Assoc. (CSA) will hold a Chinese New Year dinner party from 7 to 1 1 p.m. Friday at the University Lutheran Chapel. Tickets are available from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the CSA office in the Nebraska Union. Japanese visitors examine farm programs, techniques doily nebroskon Editor-in-Chief: Mary Voboril. Copy Desk Chief: Randy Beam. News Editor: Jane Owens. Associate News Editor: Vince Boucher. Layout and Sports Editor: Dennis Onnen. Entertainment Editor: Diane Wanek. Night News Editor: Cheryl Westcott. Chief Photographer: Gail Folda. News Assistant: Lori Clepper. Reporters: Wes Albers, Bill Boyd, Lori Demo, Jim Fullerton, Ellyn Hess, Mark Hoffman, Jan Hoge, Tom Jensen, Michael (O.J.) Nelson, Susanne Schafer, Mary Shackelton, Lynn Silhasek, Greg Wees. Entertainment Writers: Greg Lukow, Bruce Nelson, Meg Greene, Val McPhersson. Sports staff: Bob Hill, Steve Taylor, Larry Stunkel. Columnists: Mary Cannon, Keith Landgren, John O'Shea, Karen Richardson, Ron Sindelar. Artists and Photographers: Stewart Nelsen, Tony Ramirez, Mark Sward. Copy Desk: Rebecca Brite, Dave Madsen, K. Steinbruegge, Nancy Stohs, Pamela Ury. Dispatch: Larry Grill. Circulation: Tom Lundahl, Sue Bruner, Mark Lyon. Subscriptions: Mary K. Jensen. Business Manager: Jerri Haussler. Advertising Manager: Jeff Aden. Receptionist: Kathy Cook. The Daily Nebraskan is published by the Publications Committee on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday through the autumn and spring semesters, except on holidays and during vacation. Copyright 1974, the Daiiy Nebraskan. Material may be reprinted without permission if attributed to the Daily Nebraskan, excepting material covered by another copyright. Second class postage paid at Lincoln, Nebraska. Address: The Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34, 14th and R Sts., Lincoln, Nebr. 68508. Telephone 402-472-2588. By Jane Hoge Big farms. Complicated machinery. Those are the ways American and Japanese agriculture differ, according to Kusuichi Kida. Kida, currently living at the Center for Continuing Education on East Campus, is one of 57 Japanese taking part in a special 12-week course in animal science. The UNL course, which began Jan. 6, is part of a two-year work-study program that introduces the Japanese to U.S. farming techniques. The self-supporting program is sponsored by the National 4-H Club Foundation and is set up through the Japanese Agricultural Training Service. Kida's group arrived in the U.S. in June 197Z The men, all high school graduates, first took a one-month course in English at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Wash. They next worked in orchards in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, then returned to Moses Lake for two more weeks of language training. For the next year, Kida and other members of his group worked with swine, beef, dairy or poultry on farms or ranches in one of eight agricultural states. The men now have started the institutional training part of the program. Classes are taught at the Center for Continuing Education by. UNL graduate students and professors, and by county extension agents. More than 100 other Japanese are in the U.S. taking part in the program. They are studying horticulture and citrus and vegetable production, but not at UNL. At the end of March, the trainees will return to work on the farms on which they previously worked. In mid-June, they will tour the U.S. and then most will return to Japan. Not all the trainees will return to Japan, according to Clinton Hoover, Nebraska Center director. As in the past, he said, some probably will join the Japanese Peace Corps, continue their education or become teachers or agricultural businessmen. "Several have come back and are studying at UNL," Hoover said. Kida said he and many others in his group plan to farm with their fathers when they return to Japan. Kida said he joined the program "to learn about American agriculture and society and to see the situation of Japan from the outside." Kida said some of the trainees would like to talk to UNL students. Anyone interested should i all Hoover at the Nebraska Center, 472-2844. (colendof) Monday 3:30 p. in. -Students' International Meditation Society-Union 4:30 p. m. Student Fees Allocation Rourd-Union 5:30 p rn . - E n g i n e e r I n g Toastmaslors-Union 5:30 p.m. Mortar Board-Union 6 p.m. Mux ican-American Sfudnni. As-.oc. -Union ' "' : s r 6; 30 p.m.-AS UN Senate meeting Union 7 p.m. Student Volunteer Services Union 7 p.m. Student Veterans Assoc. -Union 7 p.m. Inter-Fraternity Council- Union 7:30 p.m.-Wildlile Club-Union 7:30 p , in , - m a t h counselor;, Union 7:30 p.m.- Bahai Assoc. -Union Thousands of Topics $2.75 per page Send lor your up-to-date, 160-page, mail order catalog. Enclose $1.00 to cover postage (delivery time is 1 to 2 days). 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