New Director Leads Peace Corps Growth

SING-OUT CONTROVERSY RAGES ON PAGES TWO E l < $ a u c b o A N D THREE Associated Students, University of California, Santa Barbara VoL 46 - No. 61 Friday, February 18, 1966 New director leads Peace Corps growth By STEPHEN RITTENBERG main job he has found on uni- ersity campuses has beat tell News Editor ing students what the Peace "Expansionist-minded" un Corps does. der a new director, Peace Corps "W e ’ ve gotten questions such is aiming fo r 10,500 trainees as ‘Can I go to Switzerland?" to fill its overseas quotas. or ‘Can girls go?" During next week, designated Peace Corps week by Legis M U D H U T lative Council, former vol Problem s that Peace Corps unteers will be on campus to form er volunteers face in pub answer questions cm the corps. licizing their program have On March 1 the Peace Corps been the ‘*nud hut syndrome" will be five years old. Created and the feeling -that) special in 1961 by President John Ken skills are needed. nedy, it now has over 10,000 Liberal arts students feel volunteers in 46 different coun that the Peace Corps requires tries. Under new director Jack only volunteers with special Vaughan, the Peace Corps hopes skills. Two of the areas in which to expand into 24 countries the Peace Corps works, teach VOLUNTEERS HELP—The Peace Corps celebrates Its fifth anniversary March 1 by who have applied for volunteers. aiming for 10,500 volunteers to fill Its overseas quota. Peace Corps Week at UCSB ing and community devel will include a panel discussion sponsored by EL GAUCHO. WAITING LIST opment, are suited for liberal a rts students. According to the Director Graham also said, "W e have o f the Western Region of the to train most of our people. Office of Public Affairs of the Over two-thirds of the volun Peace Corps, Hugh Graham, teers had to be trained during' Pol ¡cíes of national SDS "Jack Vaughan. Our new d ir thé summer training sessions ector, is expansionist minded. to perform their jobs." Shriver intended to consolidate in the 46 nations we presently Describing the "mud hut syn send volunteers to. We have a d ro m e" as the b elief that vol clarified at chapter meet unteers live in primitive vill waiting list of 24 countries and Vaughan wants to go into age huts, Graham stated that By BONNIE KESSENICK public about the aims of radi from their compassion by the aU of them." most live very weU. Students interested should Assistant Copy Editor cal politics. institutional system that inher Graham stated that after five Carl Oglesby, current pres its us all. years the Peace Corps has fiU out applications and take ident of SDS, has spread the developed such an appeal over it to the test. Graham stressed Students fo r Democratic Soc "Generation in and out, we group’s philosophy to various seas that it cannot fiU the r e that signing an application does iety, a liberally oriented group are put to use. People become college campuses, and was a quests made. not commit the student to the composed mainly of college stu instruments." featured speaker at Berkeley Peace Corps. dents, came to UCSB in the TARGET NUMBER midst of a funeral dirge being during the F ree Speech contro Oglesby continued, saying The test consists of a half that his organization was at sung for the SFPA. versy. A <target of 10,500 trainees hour on general aptitude and At the historic march cm tempting to sponsor "nothing for this summer has been set. a half hour on language apti Although SDS bears resemb- Washington, held in November less than a humanist reform a According to Graham about 80 tude. The language test involves lence to the organization it of 1965 Oglesby advanced the tio n ." He charged that if the per cent of this summer’s 10, interpreting a-imaginary lang replaces, there are striking view that the evils of foreign people in government are the 500 will eventually sent abroad. uage which is internally con differences between the two, policy were not being perpet aUies of the liberals, then "they This target represents over sistent. Within six weeks the and w ill probably be d iffer rated by evil men, rather by need constituencies, not advice; 2,000 more than have gone th student w ill be informed if they ences in the statements of policy liberals like himself. they need a movement, not study rough training in previous sum have been accepted into train on issues and means of action He cited year-by-year dis groups. m ers. ing. taken. asters in foreign policy within " I f they are not our aUiés, D irector of nine western While SFPA was born here recent tim es, and then said then all the more reason for states, Graham said that the PRODUCTIVE REGION during the Free Speech crisis that "good men can be divided (Continued on p. 12) Commenting on recruitment, and during the firs t year of its Graham asserted that the west existence concentrated primar INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJOR has been the most productive ily on local issues, such as region. Berkeley contributes Leg Council and Regental ac the most productive system. tion, SDS is decidedly a nat 72 volunteers have come from ional organization with national Santa Barbara of which 59 are policies. Tutorial offers liberal education presently overseas. SDS was born officiaUy on the During Peace Corps Week a University of Michigan campus By JEANETTE NISHIMORI conducted by two instructors from different aca movie, "Volunteers of India" in 1962 with a membership of Staff Writer demic fields. wUl be shown In SH 1128 at about 40, but had been working Limited in size to 15 students, the two 7:30 p.m. on Monday and Tues as an organization headed by "You are a human being. You are alive. All Colloqula offered this semester are "Doevstoy- day and 4 p.m. on Wednesday. A1 Haver man for about a year these things come into it. Everybody’s interested, esky and K afka" and "language and P o w e r," A booth manned by form er before that tim e. The group has and the freedom is really the big thing for m e." a new study concerning the semantics of power. volunteers will be set up be since spread out nationwide, tween the library and South In these exuberant terms, sophomore Jon INDIVIDUAL TUTORING keeping headquarters in Chica Taylor described UCSB’s enigmatic, misunder Hall. Upper division Tutorials may be repeated go and regional directors in stood major, the Tutorial. On Wednesday E L GAUCHO by majors for credit up to 24 units. These many larger cities. Designed to give superior students a broadly will sponsor a panel discussion constitute a series of independent studies, with Describing Itself as a lib liberal education through an inter-departmental on the Peace Corps at 7:30 tutors to be selected from the faculty according eral political organization em major, the Tutorial program exists at three levels. p.m . in Chem 1179. " ploying radical means to gain to the interests and requirements o f the student. Participants in the panel will its aids, SDS since its incept Open to all students is a variety of one-unit The central features of all Tutorial classes be Dr. Murray Thomas, dean ion has concentrated mainly introductory classes, Tutorial IA and IB. Topics are a small student-teacher ratio, the pooling of of the School of Education, May on three issues: protesting the range from “ Politlcsand Psychology "to "Animal all branches of knowledge, and an emphasis on or Don MacGilllvray, Dr. Viet Nam war, working on better Behavior" with seminar type classes, papers, discussion, reading, and writing. Richard Harris of Political Sci representation of the poor and large reading assignments. Tests, quizzes and final exams are ence, Linda woodell, former through local community work, Introductory classes are followed by the thr ee administered in none of the Tutorial classes. Peace Corps volunteer and Jeff and education of the general unit Colloquium, formal discussion groups (Continued on p. 12, col. 3) Herman, chairman of Sing Out. >age 2— EL G AUCHO — Friday, February 18, 1966 OPEN FORUM Arguments pro and con are voiced as... By JEFF HERMAN that before conflicts between Even when he wrote that Doug nations could be resolved, the Glaeser was thinking of rescin Chairman, Sing Out individuals within the nation ding the $300 appropriated by My friend, John Maybury, must be helped. The task that RHA he didn’t know that Doug has just given me a call and these students took upon them was behaving so because of asked me to meet him at the selves was of immense pro financial technicality and not E L GAUCHO office. It is now portions, but now le t’ s take a because there was any dissent 12:30. He wants me to write look at their record since then against the program , nor did a story before my 1:00 class, to see how they’ve done. he know that Doug couldn’t re counteracting the one he has scind the money if he wanted been preparing all week. WORLD TOUR to because RHA Legislature had How nice of him! This is passed it by a vote of 43-3. nothing new to him, though. Since last summer, Sing Out Now we come to the question, EDITORIAL He has been following me and has performed in Washington "Who am I?” I am simply a my helpers all week contem D.C.

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