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January 17,1962 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Coming on Campus by Maureen Racine Thursday, Jan. 18 12:00, Mass; 1:10, Freshman Lec ture; 1:10, Club Coordination Board; 1:10, Recital, 703; 4:10, Re lated Arts Club. Monday, Jan. 22 Friday, Jan. 26 Semester Examinations Friday, Jan. 26 Ski Weekend (26-28); Sodality Re treat (26-31). Thursday, Feb. 1 Friday, Feb. 2 Registration. Sunday, Feb. 1 Sophomore Coke Dance. Monday, Feb. 5 Classes Resume. Tuesday, Feb. 6 1:10, Junior Meeting, Auditorium. Thursday, Feb. 8 Senior Comprehensives; 1:10, Sophomore Meeting, Auditorium; 4:10, NSA. Friday, Feb. 9 Senior Comprehensives; 9 p.m., Freshman Mixer. Saturday, Feb. 10 9 a.m., Supplementary Exams. Sunday, Feb. 11 7:30, Play. Monday, Feb. 12 High School Open House; 12:00, Mass; 7:30, Play. Tuesday, Feb. 13 1:10, Concert-Lecture Series; 4:10, Recital, 703; 4:10, Math Club; 4:10, Art Club. Thursday, Feb. 15 1:10, SAC All-College Meeting; 4:10, Related Arts Club. Saturday, Feb. 17 1-4, NSA Regional Meeting. Sunday, Feb 18 Alumnae Meeting with Student Teachers, Social Room. Tuesday, Feb. 20 1:10, Inter-Collegiate Recital, Au ditorium: 1:10. Concert-Lecture Committee; 4:10, NFCCS. Magician To Appear At Dads' Club Meeting Magic will come to Mundelein when Joseph Palen, The Decep- tionist, will be featured at the Feb. 2 meeting of the Fathers' Club. A professional magician and past president of the Intel-national Brotherhood of Magicians, Mr. Pa len, father of freshman Molly, leads a double life. At night he presents his psychological magic, and during the day he is an office manager of the Signode Steel Strapping Com pany. All dads are invited to bring their families to the meeting. Calypso Girl Say 'De American They Different in So Many Way' by Sheila Smith MUSIC TO STUDY BY? Jane Arvigo and Jerry Weiwer ponder the im possible task of Rex Mosher. The hi-fi juke box worth 1,500, a gift ar ranged by Jane's father, was presented by Lyn Durant, president of the United Manufacturing Company. The SAC has voted to purchase 30 worth of records for the free play machine. Alabama to Africa World Views Prejudice The scandal of American racial prejudice extends far beyond the limits of the United States. It races around the world fanned by the anti-American press. Director of the United States In formation Agency, Edward R. Mur- row reported on world-wide press opinion after the most historic ride since Paul Revere that of the Freedom Riders. The press he said, presented a stark picture of the African press reaction was generally strongly or pre dominantly negative ranging along scale from immediate horror and disgust to long range concern that American world policy was being seri ously compromised. These incidents he said, have damaged America's reputation as a defender of individual rights and have provided America's detractors with the obvious usable material. African diplomats in the United States have been subjected to the indignities of being refused service in restaurants and are being forced to live in segregated housing. Recently in New York the Russians offered to sign leases for three African delegates who had been unable to rent apartments for themselves. The Americans who cry out about the failure of our diplomats to fur ther our cause all over the world must realize the handicaps which are being placed on our represen tatives. The ambassador to Ghana must offer brotherhood and peace while headlines scream about beat ings in a southern bus terminal or slums in a northern city. . ro.u i . a ..*.. gt; .,11. *i* Center for International Stud ies at MIT pointed out perhaps the only good effect of this world-wide airing of American dirty laundry. In a speech to t'le UNESCO con ference on Africa he said, How ever great the im, act of American racialism may l gt; on American standing in the world, the impact of the world on American racialism is far greater an. I will be in the end, more significant, for if there is time, it will help the American democracy to become truer to it self. Claudette Angela Bernadette Austin is a slim, olive-skinned miss with raven hair who comes from down Trinidad way. The 22-year-old home economics major hails from Chaquanas, Trini dad where her four sisters and one brother live with their parents, Harold and Jean Austin. In Trinidad a child attends grammar school from the ages of 5-11 and high school from 12-17. Claudette went to grammar school at St. Philips and James and Holy Faith Con vent for her five years of high school training. To gain a teaching certifi cate, Claudette spent two years at St. Joseph Convent. In the interim, she taught English, geography, French and cook ery at her alma maler, Holy Faith. Then in 1959, through the Rev erend Max Murphy, an American priest who has been in Trinidad for 20 years and has also been instru mental in bringing other foreign students to the U.S., Mundelein granted a four-year scholarship to the pretty Trinidadian. In February of the same year, Claudette stepped off a TWA air plane to be greeted warmly by Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Crowley, her family-to-be and energetic secre tary-couple for the Christian Family Movement. Mr. and Mrs. Crowley has been long substituted by mom and dad. At present Claudette lives not only with the Crowleys and their four children but with three other foreign students frrrr Ha:.:, PStfafaa* ar.J Mexico. When asked what she taught the main problems of the foreign stu dent are, Claudette retorted in her clip, crisp typically Calypso ac cent (with British overtones) that the problems of her fellow students are threefold: financial, linguistic and those of customs. Enlarging th:s statement she ex plained that although most students have financial worries, the foreign students are especially plagued. Business firms are not will ing to hire foreigners. Some employers feel that perhaps lack of English may prove an obstacle. Or maybe the em ployer may just feel that they should reserve the position for an American. Going on, Claudette said that it is difficult for students from Latin America and the East to adapt themselves to the American way of life. In South America and the East ern countries the people are used to highly seasoned food with spices but here in America the food is bland, she commented. Claudette explained the prob lem of dress, saying the prob lem is not. a profound one. The Claudette Austin Indian students who prefer to cling to their native dress are confronted with this problem most. Asked what kind of impression about Americans she will take back to Trinidad, Claudette paused and then said, You know in the begin ning the idea the foreign student has of the American is that he is taken up with himseit ana every thing is material. But in time the student realizes that the majority of Americans are very sincere. What are her thoughts about the American college student? I think that too many Ameri can students think college is a time for fun. Too much time is wasted. More Americans should see the important role they can play in their country. Is Trinidad really the land of calypso? Dark eyes sparkling, Claudette snapped back in mock anger, Of course, it is. Peace Corps Volunteers Undergo Study From Languages to Medical Education PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER, Evelyn Mittman, (standing extreme left) observes a scientific demonstration in the Philippines with her fellow Corps members. Evelyn plans to join the Foreign Service after two years in the Corps. Preparing for specific projects, Peace Corps volunteers spent two months in the Un.led States, and two to eight weeks overseas, study ing 11 hours a day, six days a week, reports Sail; Bowles. She is assistant to the diiector of training and daughter of Chester Bowles, presidential advise* on underdevel oped areas. The training period gives the vol unteers their firs', opportunity to learn the specific skills and lan guage required bj the host coun try. Choose Teai hing Staff An institution i.; chosen for the training on the basis of facilities plus terrain and climate. The Uni versity of Texas was chosen for the Tanganyikan project since the ter rain and climate are similar. The experts also select a teaching staff which includes those specializ ing in area studies, such as Africa and Latin America, and those skilled in technical studies, such as agriculture and education. by Virginia Piecuch The program of study consists of technical training, American stud ies, area studies, medical training and physical fitness and Peace Corps orientation. For example, the 51 secondary school teachers who were sent to Ghana early this year had 100 hours of technical training during two This is the last in a series of articles. months in the United States. Thirty hours were devoted to practice teaching, and 70 to the theory of Ghanian education. Note Technical Training Technical training is important since What everyone will do is work, Miss Bowles emphasizes. These volunteers had 135 hours of African and Ghanian studies, of which 45 hours were set aside for language learning. They learned Twi one hour a day from three stu dents from Ghana. They study African problems in general, the change from Ghanian dependence to independence, Pan Africanism, Ghanian leaders and their policies toward the United States plus the art, music and dances of Ghana. The American studies, which amount to 45 hours in every train ing program, included for this group the relations of the United States to Ghana and the internal affairs of the U. S. Emphasi/.e Health Education Every volunteer must have one hour of medical and physical fitness training each day. Ten hours are devoted to First Aid and specific areas with regard to health. Peace Corps orientation is also one hour a day. This study ac quaints the volunteers with the Peace Corps itself, its aims and or ganization. For further information on applications and examinations, see Sister Mary Eloise, B.V.M., Peace Corps liaison offi cer in Room 405 C.
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1962-01-17 (3)
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