PAGE S!X Ford to Assist Program Of Non-Western Studies A recent Ford Foundation move may help .United States’; educators more accurately estimate and fill the nation’s need, lor university teachers! of non-Western area studies. ! The foundation announced recently that its Foreign- Area Training Fellowship program, which supports advanced study for social scientists and humanists, will be transferred this spring to the Social; Science Research Council (SSRCKand the American Council of Learned So cieties fACLS).. These councils function independently \of the Ford Foundation. _ THE SSRC AND ACLS are long-term study groups, Jo hn Howard, director of the Ford Foundation's International Train ing and Research program, said. Including leading scholars in non-Western academic fields, the councils will be able to appraise the national need for specialized knowledge Of foreign areas and to evaluate candidates for these fel lowships accordingly, he added, • The foundation's program was created in 1952, to help meet a shortage of Americans’ competent in the cultures and problems of non-Western areas. In the past, American universities generally neglected these areas or limited research to teaching classical- lan guages and literature, a repre sentative of the foundation re ported. ; The foundation cites several reasons for/the deficiencies: • American educational instilu- Ford Gives Funds For Foreign Study The Ford Foundation has an nounced a grant of $4.6 million to the Social Sciences Research Council to finance 250 foreign area training fellowships for each of three academic years, beginning in fall 1063. ;• The fellowships ane usually awarded to students working to ward a doctor of philosophy de gree., Averaging from two to three years, the fellowships in clude one year of research over seas. ; Fellows are selected through national competition. ; By spring; the foundation will have awarded ffellowships total ing about $9 milion to-1,200 peo ple. Their sludeies have dealt mainly with Asia, .the ‘Near East, Africa, the Soviet UriiOn, Eastern Europe and Latin America. • For further information, inter ested students should; write the Ford Foundation, 47? Madison Avc., Ncw r -York 22, N.?f. Letters for IFC Offices Must Be Filed Monday Self nominating letters fpr the offices of-- president, -vice presi dent and' secretary-treasurer of the Inter-Fraternity Council must be filed by noon Monday in the IFC office In the Hetzel Union Building. " i The self nominating speeches for these positions must be given at the IFC meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Alpha Sigfna Phi fra ternity. . To apply for thesepositions a person must -be a president or past president of his fraternity or a chairman or past chairman of a major 3FC committee.. New College Diner Downtown Between Movies' TV SERVICE Fast Expert Serric* on All Makes and Models of TV. Radio and Hi Fi. DON'T COME TO ME 111 Come to You. Free Pick Up and Delivery of Your Table Radio, phono. Student rales on TV Repairs. RICHARD i. ROSfCA BOALSBURG.PA. H 0 6-6685 By KAY MILLS tions were traditionally oriented toward Europe, birthplace of mafty of the migrants who set tled the United States and de termined its culture. • Unlike European countries, the United States never developed a large pool of persons with ex perience abroad because x>t con stantly expanding opportunities here at home. • Young scholars were, dis couraged from developing spe cialized interests in non-Western areas by the long, arduous train ing necessary to acquire language skills and by the cost of field research in remote parts of the world. Foundation grants also assist liberal arts colleges in introduc ing non-Western elements into undergraduate- curricula and in strengthening the teaching of non- Western languages, Howard said. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNlj/ERSTTY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA ' Whatever your career interest, the of the whole country ' are on you. Because keeping; ours a jnation in which a free If - ■ man can live is up to young UOW/ie/ in the public eye along with; many other industry groups, are interested in ybur training for. your future : role. They’re not only interested .. I they’re participating; Example No.l The AC network calculator pictured here has been aidiijg students and faculty at the Pennsylvania State University since 1957. This equipment wds jmade possible by a grant of $lOO,OOO from! Pennsylvania electric companies, the Westijighouse Electric Corporatipn, and the Elliot Cjompahy. | Example No. 2 A nucleajr power 1 proto type, now being constructedVst Saxton, Pa., at ! the expense of a group of invtjstor-owned elec tric companies, .will be available to'both a Pennsylvania and New Jersey university as a , facility for research and expei&menU. " New ! Group Of Cprpsmen Begin Training Seven Pennsylvanians are among the 66 Peace Corps volun teers who arrived here yesterday to begin trainijng as teacher-aides in the Philippine Islands. The group, composed of 37 men and 29 women, is participating in an orientatipn program includ ing and' psychological tests today ar}d tomorrow. A re ception and < anee will be held at 7 pan. torn! rrow in the Hetzel Union ballrooi l for persons- inter ested in meet ng the volunteers. The volunteers, from , Pennsyl vania are: Wiljliam Abbey, Home; Donald Aufpitz, Philadelphia; Joseph Hnatjow, Ford City; Michael Mallijy, Braddock; Wil liam Plankenjiom, Williamsport; Lillian Reeves! West Chester; and Maiy Ryan, Philadelphia. ;The retaining volunteers, rep resent 25 stat<|s, including Alaska. The male Vtjlunteers will live in Nittany 43 and the women in Runkle. The fi>ur married couples in the group! will be housed- in Graduate Circle. ' . A dinner for the Peace Corps staff will be ipeld at 6 p.m. Sun day in Hetkel i Union, dining rooms A arid; B. The volunteers . will begin daises Monday. " . Ray's Talk to -©ken'; U.S.-In^iqi>A(eefesend A. IC Ray, head of the chancery of the Embassy of India,* ■will‘open India-America Weekend With a speech bn “India’s Role as a Non-Aligiled Nation” at a banquet at 6:30 pah. today, at the Lutheran Student Center. - ; \ <' i ’‘. i About 90 Indian students, i wealth campuses, will particip; The purpose of the affair Is toj discuss contemporary problems of India. * ; Mrs. Bhaskaramaqi Chari of Toledo, Ohio, will perform! the Bharata-Natyam, an Indian dance. Other entertainment jwill include a flute solo, a folk jsonfe and Indian folk dances. i • FOOD FOR the banquet! in cludes such Indian dishes as Falav rice sand chicken curry. I Tomorrow's program Includes discussion groups on contempo rary Indian problems! at 3:151p.m. in the Helen Eakini Eisenhower Chapel. Dr. Henry M. Albinski, instructor in political!science,! will lead a discussion onj "Linguistic Differences and the i Problem *6f Indian Political Integration.]' A discussion on “IT 1 ® National ization .of Industry in India" i will be led by Ellis .Keller, manage-, ment researcher in ! continuing education, and on “Righer Educa tion in India and ! the United Contributions' to the education of future leaders fields by the: state’s electric com panies are hot confined to ,the engineering field. These companies give their support in various areas of education, to insure a better future for all Americans. j ' PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATI 20 ta/hjiiKlmsl, htYWftor-Owmd. . 1 | BkWc CowpariM of Pmatybnaia j FRIDAY, MARCH 30. 4962 including 20 from the iate in India-Ameriqa Weekend! States’* by Dr. tßahx P. Kanwal, f associate professor of mathe matics. ' ; | .1 ' -• ! TOMORROW AND Sunday night, exchange j dinners with State College families will be held for the Indian students. ] The movie, ' “Guatama the Buddha,” will be shown at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow iin the Hetzel Un ion assembly. ] | ] Indian arts and crafts will be displayed tomorrow £t the HUB cardroom. The affair is being sponsored by ttje Friends of India Association' and the Christian Associatibn.,. ; MADRAS SCARVES 70r ■'! Parish's * Men's Shop 'f 4TV'
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