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Monday. Novembei 3,1«M
Peace Corps/VISTA
Rep will talk on program
PEACE CORPS RECRUITER TOM QERHARDT.
STUDENTS & FACULTY:
Senator Rose Ann Vuich
has served education well during her first term in
office. She seeks your support for another term.
She has a way of getting things done!
VOTE VUICH NOV. 4
Vuich For Senate Committee
Bill Eggers - Co-Chairman
Dan Vasilovich - Co-Cnairman
...D.S!°onf,nWebbe - Treasurer
,218 So. "M" Street Dinuba, CA
By Margaret Heinan
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President John F Kennedy first men¬
tioned the idea of a Peace Cormj&years
ago. Since 1961. the Pe.tce" Corps has
sent more than 72,000 volunteers
abroad, and Tom Cerhardt. Peace
Corps/VISTA recruiter will be at CSUF
this week to talk to interested students
about the program An informational
meeting at noon today will be held in
Room 312 in the College Union.
Dunns the year, 4,000 new Peace
Corps volunteers and 1,500 new VISTAs
are expected to go into training
Cerhardt said there was a "common
misconceotion" that only people with
certain deirees or skills were wanted
"We definitely need scarce skilled
people." he said, "but we have a lot of
generalist programs also "
A person with a degree in English
could teach English as a second lang¬
uage, but there are also "appropriate
technology" programs that don't depend
on maior expertise Teaching simple
rules of child nutrition to mothers in the
Phillipines. for example, does not re¬
quire a desree in nutrition.
Cerhardt said that the most important
qualities a Peace Corps or VISTA volun¬
teer could have are 'adaptability, flexi¬
bility, a sense of humor and a sense of
adventure."
"We're not going o^er to another
country to Americanize or Westernize
anyone. We are sharing our expertise so
that thev can make the best use of their
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resources." he said.
Cerhardt has served in VISTA for two
years, one in Knox County, Kentucky,
and the other is Still Well, Oklahoma.
VISTA volunteers serve primarily as
community organizers in the United
States. Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
Guam and American Samoa.
Their soal is to help the poor and
powerless gain a greater voice in the
decisions that affect their lives, Cerhardt
said
VISTA volunteers may work on pro¬
tects related to consumer affairs, legal
services business and economic devel¬
opment, housing, energy conservation,
aid to the elderly, education, youth coun¬
seling, child and spouse abuse, refugees
or health and nutrition.
Cerhardt said he had also been in the
Peace Corps. Peace Corps volunteers
work outside the U.S. in developing
countries in Africa, Asia and South
America He served two years in Truk,
Micronesia, which is an island situated
in the Pacific Ocean. He did community
service work there. "I assisted in plan¬
ning a tvDhoon-proof shelter, which is
the onlv concrete structure on the island.
I also taught at a small school.* The pace
of life was considerably slower in Truk,
he said "There were 175 people in the
community, and they were governed by
the traditional chief. It was like some¬
thing out of the movies, the wise man
who made the decisions."
Cerhardt said that in spite of the
cross-culture training that the Peace
Corps aives he still made mistakes.
'People tended to overlook it though.*
He said that in Truk, families were
Riven certain areas where they could
Tish. "I was kind of exempt," he said.
'As a Peace Corps member, I was part of
everyone's family."
He said the local people may test the
volunteer to see what he is like.
In Truk. he said, an old woman told
him, "I know Americans like eggs, so
these are for you." She gave him a lot of
rotten eaas. Cerhardt thanked her for
them, and later when she asked him how
he liked the eggs, he said they were deli¬
cious and pantomimed his enjoyment of
them. "Cood," the old woman said,
'Now I ran tell all the others where to
send their rotten eggs.*
"She was quite a character,* Cerhardt
said. "She wanted to see how I would
react, if I could take a joke.*
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Teacher of the month
Flowers honored
By Margaret Hetnan
Findini vour office so full of balloons
and crumpled paper that you can't
find your desk — or even get in —
may seem a dubious form of recogni¬
tion, but that was only part of the
honor recently given Arthur Flowers.
Flowers, professor in the Communica¬
tive Disorders Department, was named
Teacher of the Month bv the Communi¬
cative Disorders Student Association..
Members of the CDSA spent two
hours stuffing his office Wednesday
night. As a further token of the club's
esteem, several of its members burst
into one of his classes Thursday morning
clanging cymbals and shaking tarn-
bonnes
They brought an 18-inch-wtde orange-
frosted cookie decorated to look like
a iack-o-lantern "To the outstanding
Teacher of the Month from CDSA"
was written across the top.
There was a certificate, too, and a
septre and crown — which had a ten¬
dency to fall off — made from wrinkled
tin foil.
The announcement of his award
was made to the class in a song sung at
funeral tempo:
"06, happy Teacher of the Month,
Oft, happy Teacher of the Month,
Misery, suffering and despair.
People dying everywhere.
Oh, happy Teacher of the Month.''
Flowers dabbed at his eyes with a
handkerchief. "You realize you haven't
got your grades yet," he said at the
conclusion of the pertormartce.
The laughter and applause from the
class showed that no one took the threat
seriously.
"A person like myself who lectures
to 500 is not considered to be at a loss
for words," he said. "I'd just like to tell  '
you that I consider this one of the great¬
est honors I have ever received."
Flowers had been picked at a poll
taken at Tuesday's club meeting, said
Teresa Banks, who does publicity for
the dub.
Why was Flowers chosen?
"He's the best teacher we've got,"
she said.
Other members had their own an¬
swers.
"He's really considerate."
"Sensitive, cooperative. He always
has an open off ice."
"A good lecturer, really a good lec¬
turer."
"He's always willing to take time out
for the students."
"He's dynamic, sensitive."
Banks said that this was the first
time the dub had given the award, but
it planned to make it a monthly event.
"We think it will help boost depart¬
ment morale. We're a small depart¬
ment," she said.
plNte by Dave Nktteen
ARTHUR FLOWER WAS VOTED TEACHER OF THE MONTH
He «nm ohettn by ttw C08A
Harris spoke for Peace andFreedom
By Angela S. Camay
He wore a dark blue suit and tie,
and his short hair billowed in blond
tufts on either side of a balding
pate. Now in his mid-30's, his ap¬
pearance gave no due of his pas¬
sionate and radical career as a draft
resister.
"t did not set out to be the world's
oldest draft resister," said David
Harris, but his message was basically
that of his early 60's crusade to halt
a conscription he thought inequit¬
able.
Then, he was a student, a leader
of the draft resistance at Stanford
University. He attended Fresno
High School before that. His mar¬
riage to singer Joan Baez ended in
divorce. Their only child, a ton,
was born while he was incarcerated
for resisting the draft.
"I have a strong sense of deja
vu," he said. "I perceive a lot of the
same things going on as in '62
and '63."
He spoke In Fresno at a dinner
for Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom, which
celebrates its sixty-fifth anniversary
this month. He Is a national sponsor
of thegroup.
The revival of draft registration
is ,a revival of conscription, he said,
regardless of the administration's
assurances. "It is a blank check
for the military and the administra¬
tion. Will we give the government
the right to use our lives in this .
way?
"There may be times in our his¬
tory when we must suspend the con¬
stitution to defend it, but if one
person sacrifices his life to defend
the country, then everybody sacri¬
fices their lives. No more will we send
young kids to fight. Unless we are
willing to enforce these rules, con¬
scription will be abused.
"There is now a real possibility
of war over resources... In the past,
it was assumed young men would be
fighting for liberty, justice and
democracy. Now, the U.S. is pledged
to fight in a corner of the world
in which our only interest is oil...
Rather than exist on less, the policy
is that we'll fight for more."
Calling us the world's "fat peo¬
ple " he said people must exercise
self-discipline In their consumption
of the world's resources.
"It's unreal for us to think that the
lives of our nation's people an
not the most precious resource
we have What is oil? Fifteen minutes
on the freeway. This country can
survive anything as long as K has
its people," said Harris.
"We must leinvoke the memory
of the last war after which 55,000
young Americans never came home,
and 25 percent of Vietnam's arable
land was no longer arable," he said
Words Wee "war," "national securi¬
ty," "strength," and "realism"
must  be  redefined  to  avoid  the
mistakes of the past, Harris said.
"Our national security is thought
synonymous with the Pentagon's
assumptions, but we can no longer
live in the post World War It era
when the U.S. was the only military
power functioning.. .The 'Carter
Doctrine' assumes you could throw
a force into the Mideast and not have
the Soviet Union respond. And to
think of a limited nuclear war that
would not escalate is absurd.
"If we're weak today, it's not be¬
cause of our military, but because of
the disintegration of our industrial
base. We're increasingly the less
productive nation. We lost signifi¬
cant technologies because of con¬
centrating on military production.
"War is a waste of economic
resources. Our inflation dates from
the Vietnam expenditure. If we con¬
tinue to spend money on the military
at the expense of ether areas of
society, we will be faced with more
inflation because It pumps money
into .the'system without any goods/'
said Harris.
Harts, now a writer for The New
York Times Magazine, lost some
composure when he harkened so the
war dead as he finished. In a husky
voice, he said, "The Boyenssiiaist
lied to us. There were 55,000 dead
and 300,000 Injured. The mssiaao of
those lives is fife wasted. Let us do
honor to them by saying that no
American is ever aping to die for
that."
CSUF
at a glance
The Fresno chapter of the League
of Women Voters and the Univer¬
sity Religious Center are sponsoring a
workshop on solar energy and con¬
servation.
The workshop is free and will be
held at St. Paul's United Methodist
Church, 2345 N. Theste St. on Sat¬
urday, Nov. B from 9 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.
Conducting the workshop will be
Judy Corbett, director of the Solar-
Cal Local Government Commis-
sten co-planner of the4nternatlonalty
recognized solar subdivision of
Village Homes in Davis. Ms. Corbett
is afaoan onvaiunrnental consultant
and a formal solar energy letturer
at the University of California.
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