1979_11 The Daily Collegian November 1979

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VISTA/Peace Corp recruiters to be on campus
am Nov   5-t, two Peace
Corps/VIST A recruiters will be avwlabie
to talk to students on the OhHegs Union
btaacony from • 45 4 m to 3 JO p m each
day
Recruiter Maggie Dowd said the four
day visit to CSUF is part of a nationei
LgiiBpaign to fin 500 VISTA openings in
the United States and 1,400 Peace Corps
najajniiaji in Third World countries
'The VISTA volunteers will be serving
primarily a* community oreani.*«rs in
.nrapoverishedavaas.'slwisaid 'Many of
go out of state A lot of them prefer to go
to the Pacific rwortrvevest '
VISTA is an acrorrym for *Vc4unteers
in Service to America *
Applicants for the Pooce OaTps usually
have a degree m agriculture, medicine
ertgineering, or have a twchnecal skill
that is needed in one of St Third World
countries the Pease* Corps serves
'Applicants for the Pooce Corps don t
necessanry have to have a degree We
have some uncowgrodusttes tn the programs A skill that would be technically
helpful to people is reolfy what we're
looking for, 'Dowd said
Volunteers in both programs are expected to live on S15OS3S0 per month
she said This goes much farther overseas than it does here
'Of course it's no wary to make mo-
nay, but the rewards are greater than
that.' Dowd said
'Traire tare roolly threw pools for the
Peace Corps - to provide technical assistance to people in the countries we are
invited to, to give the corps rnembor a
feeling for the culture of the people he is
serving, and to give people In -• -
coufstrlos a fooling for Ansericans
she
Peace Corps mensbers are given 4
three-month onentetion consisting of tho
language, history, and culture of the
areas they will be sent to
Applicants are screened carefully, not
only for skills, but for flexibility grid ability to deal with people
'liairoverts don't last long A sense of
htjenor is raaih/ invportant.' Dowd seed,
'because the volunteers have to work in
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conosuons ana wmn a agvei ot rsjtjinotogy
that they are not used to Very often,
modlcol supplies are limrted or nonexistent Farm toots are sometimes limited to
stone age type implernents '
Dowd,   26,   served  two  years  with
VISTA, T977-1979 Her first assignment
woa to Hilthoro-Ore , wfaare she fwjgped
develop fwiaeth, tranktportation, and
housing programs for the irnpoverisiusd ■
She was then sent to Anchor ggje, Alas-
ka, vtorkmg for the Abused Women t
Shelter She became involved in counsel
ing, oonwriunity education, and establishing a lawyer retorrai system
Wishing a levever referrai system
The Pooce Corps and VISTA are funded by HEW
The assigrwrtents are a one-to two-
year cooun.tn.ent We ere loosting far-
word to receiving a lot of appiicesbons
from students at Fresno State and we also got quite a few from (CSU) Davis,*
she said, although the nunwier of applicants has dropped in the last Owcode
Grantwriting workshop finally funded by Senate
tty Matt Alger
Peaty Caawegian Staff ttdftertgr
The College Uneon Progrgamming
Committee refused to provide the
Psychology Students Union with funding
for worksrsopo on grant writing but the
Associated Student Senate was not at all
reluctant to allot the rnoney Tuesday
The Senate screed to fund the work
shop, wmch will feature Crantwrtter
Donna Berinett. after rsewtng a letter
from the president of the PSU, Robin
'Ms Bennett s expertise is well docu-
Actors, singers hoapors,
tech-help for musical, 'Decision "
AuoVtions are 7 10 pm, Thurs ,
Nov 8 at the Baptist Temple
4141 N Fresno St For more info ,
leave men egg with Mr or Mrs
Butler, phone 227-7043 and Mike will
return your call
merited by her many successful years
with the Fresno Employment and Training Oinsmtssion ' stated the letter
In the letter, Hodson wont on to say
that Bennett had attended nafjonal
workshops for e/antsmenship that coat
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nunorern or oonars
The discussion of reioarch, formats,
writing smchntques and funding sources
will be deaKwrth at the CSUF workshop
according to Hodson She said in the
letter that the main emphasis of the
workahop will be on the prejperation of
social service and research a/ants
Workshops are currently scheduled
Friday Nov 16 from 4 to 730 p.m.,
Saturday Nov 17 from 10 a.m. to noon
and from 1 to 4 p m Those who are
in tori itad in the program can begin
signing up Nov 5 in the Psychology
Depavtment Office
The Senate had previously consioVrcd
the funding mjuest for the grant writing
workasTkop along with a request for
4approeirriotery $120 to finance a two-day
vvorkshop that will feature Hoagie
Wydioff, a feminist theropist from the
Berkeley Feminist co-op
Th*5**m**eckKxdedtDturMJtteHo*4*
Wyckorf workshop but took no action
on the grantsmanship woritsrtop In-
stood, it was decaded to wait until the
programming conwriittoe considered
funding the grantwriting workahop
However, the programming committee dented the request jack Valencia,
cheirmen of the CU Programming Conv
sowd the request was
boceuse similar courses are offered by
the unrversity, posing the possibility of
« conflict
John Osborne, a rnembor of the CU
conwrtitiwe mooting
because she did not mention that tha
Psychology Department was willing to
provide the PSU with $300 for the workshop A kttter of apceogy from tha conv
mittee has since been sent to Hodson
Student nurses visit Valley
Children's Hospital for Halloween
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