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BV nL Nixon visited UNL in 1,'
formation of a new volunteer agency called ACTION. Out of that
agency sprang NOVA, the Nebraska Opportunity for Volunteers
fJt me its astronomical counterpart, NOVA floured a
while, and then began to die. The program ends m June because
of lack of funds. . ,
On January 14, 1971, the President congratulated the national
champion Comhusker football team before 7,000 students m the
CODuUr!ng his 30-minute talk, he said he would send a special
message to Congress proposing a new volunteer agency that
would encompass the Peace Corps, VISTA and other federal
agencies under the jurisdiction of one agency -AC1IUN.
He said he hoped it would "give young Americans an
expanded opportunity for the service they want to give-and that
vvil! give them what is not now possible, a chance to transfer
between service abroad and service at home."
The agency soon was established and spread across the nation.
A drive for campus youth involvement, called University ear in
ACTION (UYA) found its way to 55 universities.
UNL started one of the first UYA branches when the NOVA
volunteer social work program began here in August 1971. The
NOVA program enabled students to do social work in the field
and still take courses at the university.
In a rating last year from the ACTION headquarters in Kansas
City, the program at UNL was listed as the most successful UYA
effort of 12 Midwest universities.
According to Merry Ann Coe, NOVA supervisor, the main
reason for the program's demise was lack of funds.
She said the original federal allocation to NOVA was for three
years, and that period is coming to an end. She added that the
funds were cut back more and more by the government until the
program no longer could continue.
"It was nobody's fault, really," Coe said. "The collective
interest of the students wasn't all that great, and there just wasn't
enough money.
"We could have extended it-vice chancellor (Virginia) Trotter
was pushing for one more year, but we decided there was no use
trying to keep the program going if we all knew it was all over
anyway," she said.
Eight students (an average number of participants at any one
time, said Coe) are scheduled to complete their volunteer work in
the program in May.
Don Bauerrneister, one of the students, aid $ dqa't fe9ood
about the program ending. As an education experience; it's ithe
best thing I've seen on this campus, and I've been here five years.
"Basically, the program deserved a lot of support, but there
was not enough publicity. People didn't know what it was about.
Since the University peyer went out of its way to support the
program, no one knew about it," ($aid Bauerrneister.
Jodene Schwlndt, who $ot' a job with Lincoln's YWCA
through NOVA, is "disappointed to see it phasing out.
"It was a real learning and growing experience," she said.
"Imagine being able to work full-time and applying your
classwork to what you're doing. It's been very rewarding."
Gene Harding, current director of Centennial Educational
Program, was in charge of NOVA when it started here in 1971.
He is writing a history of the program for "personal use around
here," he said.
"When we started, it was an experiment," he said. "Now I
want to write exactly what we did, trace how we started and
record how we attempted things for future reference."
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