10—The Daily Collegian Tuesday Nov. 4. 1980
Peace Corps is major University recruiter
By GRETCHEN GORDON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Most students are familiar with
recruiters who come to the University
looking fof engineers and business
students. But Penn State is also a major
recruitment area for another type of
employer the Peace Corps.
Mary Keith, a campus representative
for the Peace Corps and former corps
volunteer, said in 1977 the University
had 220 Peace Corps applicants, the
highest number from any campus in the
nation. Eighty-nine University students
entered the Peace Corps last year, but
Keith said the average is usually around
60.
Representatives from the interna
tional organization will be in the HUB
lobby from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today
through Friday, recruiting applicants
for duty in one of 60 developing nations.
Volunteers teach skills and fill shortages
Freshmen career conscious, study shows
By MARK GREEN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Freshmen entering Penn State in 1979 were more
concerned with careers, more willing to let University
officials ban controversial campus speakers, and more
optimistic about college than their 1966 and 1972
counterparts, according to a study recently released
by the University.
The study, a comparison of freshmen surveys from
1966, 1972 and 1979, was completed in September by
Kenneth W. Boras, planning analyst for the Office of
Planning and Budget. It is the first comparison of the
annual surveys the University has done, he said.
Boras said although students still have approximate
ly the same socioeconomic backgrounds and the same
age and race distributions, the most evident dif
ferences are in their attitudes and expectations for the
future.
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of skilled and semi-skilled manpower.
Students can sign up in.the placement
office, 408 Boucke, for-an.interview with
a recruitment officer, said Erich Rudyj,
a recruiter from the Peace Corps/VIST A
office in Philadelphia. Students who
want more information about the pro
grams- should talk to Keith, in 239
Agricultural Administration Building.
The film “The Toughest Job You’ll
Ever Love” will be shown at 7 tonight in
Waring Dining Hall, and at the same
time tomorrow night in Findlay Union
Building. The film is free to all in
terested students and faculty. A question
and answer period will follow.
Peace Corps volunteers must be at
least 18 years old, U.S. citizens, in good
physical condition and skilled in a field
that could be useful to the citizens of a
developing nation.
“General agriculture and skilled
trades are the hottest moving areas
For example, when asked what objectives they con
sidered to be essential, the majority of incoming
freshmen in 1966 and 1972 said developing a philosophy
of life was most important.
Last year, developing a philosophy of life was ranked
sixth. Being well off financially, getting recognition
from peers, being an authority in their own fields, and
raising a, family were among those objectives that
preceeded developing a philosophy of life.
Also according to the study, freshmen in 1979 agreed
more with University regulation of student publica
tions, campus speakers and off-campus behavior than
did students in 1972.
Higher academic expectations were obvious in last
year’s survey. For example, only 0.5 percent surveyed
said they thought they would fail one or more courses,
and almost 60 percent expected grades of B or better.
The surveys used in the study are given yearly to
right now,” Rudyj said. “We’ll be
specifically targeting for applicants in
these areas.”
Other areas include forestry, business,
engineering, education and health, but
there are fewer openings in these fields.
But Rudyj, who is on campus
recruiting this week, said, “We usually
have more applicants than positions to
be filled it’s very competitive. But
there are a substantial number of posi
tions presently available to qualified
applicants.”
Positions are not established in the
United States. The Peace Corps receives
invitations from other nations and these
host countries designate the areas in
which individuals are needed, Rudyj
said.
If an applicant is accepted, the Peace
Corps tries to place the person into the
skill and geographic region of his or her
choice.
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The volunteer is then given informa
tion about the assignment and undergoes
a training period of approximately two
to three weeks in the host country.
A tour of duty lasts two years, but
volunteers can serve up to five years if
they show that the job they are doing is
necessary and there is no one available
to replace them.
The expenses of living in a foreign
country are paid by the corps.
Rudyj said benefits of the Peace Corps
program include cultural exchange and •
experience in the chosen skill area.
Volunteers also receive a subsistence
allowance for living expenses, which
Rudyj said is enough to allow the person
to live comfortably. Also, a readjust
ment allowance of $125 a month is saved
in Washington, D.C., so the volunteer ,
will have money for living expenses im
mediately after completion of the tour of
duty.
freshmen in participating colleges across the nation.
Results are compiled at the respective colleges and
then sent to the University of California at Los Angeles,
which sponsors the survey.
The study also shows:
• More than 80 percent of the 1979 University
freshmen said they depend on parental aid for at least
part of their college costs.
• 6.2 percent of last year’s freshmen said they
smoked cigarettes, compared to 11.5 percent
nationally.
• Women entering University Park as freshmen
shifted away from traditional careers such as educa
tion, health professions and the arts, to business,
engineering, law and science.
• The percentage of freshmen favoring the
legalization of marijuana has dropped off from 56.7
percent in 1972 to 46 percent'last year.
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Space—no longer a final frontier
Py THOMAS SAKELL
l Daily Collegian Staff Writer
I; The space program is too vital to national interest for
'.the United States to phase out, astronaut Robert
Stewart said yesterday.
Stewart discussed the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration space shuttle program and
astronaut eligiblity in a'program sponsored by Army
ROTC.
. “Space is no longer a frontier; space is a commodi
fy,” he said. “More people are using space for com
mercial interests.”
Stewart said the shuttle program, slated to go into
operation next year, will be able to transport commer
ciaUtems such as satellites and power sources, and
sbiehtific equipment such as telescopes, into outer
spate.
‘ Corporations will foot the $2O million of expenses for
- each flight when they use the shuttle system, he said.
- NASA does not expect to make a profit, Stewart said.
Other countries which cooperate with NASA, in
f eluding the Soviet Union, will be able to use the shut
' ties, Stewart said, since all countries using the service
: will pay for it.
;' The goal of the space shuttle program, Stewart said,
• is to send a manned spaceship into space, have it orbit
• the earth for an indefinite time, and return and land at
Florida’s Cape Kennedy. A 15,000-foot landing strip sur-
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The shuttle is as big as a DC-9 airliner, he said, and
its cargo hold is large enough to carry a Greyhound
bus. It weighs 4.4 million pounds including rockets, and
has a thrust capability of 7 million pounds.
When the shuttle re-enters the earth’s atmosphere, it
will be travelling at a speed of 25 times the speed of
sound, and descending at a 22 degree angle, Stewart
said.
Compared to the two or three degree angle a com
mercial airliner descends for landing, the shuttle will
look like a dive bomber, Stewart said.
The spacecraft is designed to endure 500 flights, he
said. NASA is scheduling 60 flights a year over the next
decade.
A 747 airplane is used for transporting the space
shuttle, and not as a launching pad, Stewart said.
He said many people share this misconception
because of the James Bond movie “Moonraker,” in
which a shuttle flew off the back of a 747.
Although the space shuttle program is scheduled to
get off the ground in March, Stewart said it may not
start until early next summer. Rocket malfunctions
and the delay of the manufacture of special ceramic
tiles for the exterior of the craft are the reasons why
the shuttle may be grounded.
Benefit to be held
Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity and
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will be
holding a bailoon raffle this week to
benefit the March of Dimes.
Raffle chairman Rick Kron said raffle
tickets are attached to balloons and sold
for $l. He said fraternity and sorority
members so far have raised about
$14,000.
The winner of the raffle will receive
$5O, Kron said. He said 4,000 additional
balloons, with raffle tickets attached,
were launched at the University football
game Saturday.
The program has already received $3.3 billion in
federal monies, Stewart said, but NASA is still trying
to get the funds to add one more shuttle to its four ship
fleet.
Stewart said he plans to fly with the space shuttle.
“I’ll be on board, maybe as a crew member,” he
said. “I don’t know if I’ll actually fly a shuttle, or com
mand one, but I’ll be on board.
“You strap yourself to the side of 4.4 million pounds
and blast yourself off the face of the earth; there’s still
several thousand people who want to do that.”
One of the projects which still needs funding, he said,
is the Galileo project, scheduled for take-off in 1985.
Galileo will send an unmanned spacecraft past Uranus
on an intelligence gathering mission, similar to the
Voyager expeditions.
Because of the orbital patterns of the outer planets, it
is integral that the mission go off on time“or wfe won’t
make another one for 11 years,” Stewart said.
Stewart, who graduated from Southern Mississippi
University in the Army ROTC program in 1964, logged
over 1,000 hours of combat flying time as an Army
helicopter pilot in Vietnam.
He was accepted into the NASA space program in
1978 as the first astronaut from the Army. Currently, he
is involvedin the re-entry flight control system for the
first space shuttle.
Kron said whomever returns the ticket
from the balloon that travels the farthest
distance from-campus will win $l5O. All
tickets have to be returned before Jan. 1
in order to be eligible for the $l5O prize.
—by Rebecca Clark
The polling place for the East Central
3 precinct was incorrectly reported in
Friday’s issue of The Daily Collegian.
The correct location is Phi Sigma Kappa
fraternity, 501 S. Allen St.
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