4—The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 7, 1984
Development:
U.N. organization aims to improve world food production
By KIM BOWER
Collegian Staff Writer
Promoting the common welfare is the purpose of
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, a senior officer of the FAO said
yesterday.
T.C. Varghese said the FAO accomplishes this
by encouraging nations to raise levels of nutrition
and standards of living, to better the conditions of
rural populations and to improve efficiency of
production and distribution of food and agricultu
ral products.
Varghese spoke to students and faculty at a
seminar on international service programs spon
sored by the College of Human, Development's
Office of Commonwealth Educational Systems
and the college's Department of Community Stud
ies.
After 1945, many countries became independent
from their colonial empires. Varghese said when
the colonial administrations were withdrawn, the
new nations did not have the technology or scien
tific knowledge to provide for their own needs, and
the FAO , was created to provide information on
research in these areas to'help them.
The FAO, originally headquartered in Washing
ton, D.C., is now based in Rome.
While food production has increased significant
ly in Third World countries, the organization
realizes that it must now concentrate on increas
ing production for all levels of rural society,
Varghese said.
Agriculture, economic and social policy, forest
ry and fisheries are the four technical depart
ments within the organizational structure of the
FAO, Varghese said. Another department also
deals with technical assistance projects and in
vestment-oriented projects, he added.
The Human Resources, Institutions and Agrari
an Reform Division, under the economic and
social policy department, provides four services:
agrarian reform and settlement; education, exten
sion and training; development organization and
institutions; and women in development, Varg
hese said.
Each service works in its own specific area and
also joins with the other services to formulate and
implement rural development projects, he said.
Varghese said the Human Resources Division is
now in charge of about 500 projects, which fall into
three basic categories. The first category deals
with the monitoring and evaluation of rural devel-
Former chemistry department
Joseph A. Dixon, former chemistry sion for junior chemistry majors, and
department head and University Chemistry 38, a four-credit organic
alumnus, retired from the University chemistry class for sophomores.
on July 1. After graduating from the Univer-
Dixon, who ran that department sity in 1942, Dixon worked for the
from 1970-83, will continue to teach Department of Agriculture until 1944,
two chemistry courses at the Univer- when he returned to the University
sity this semester. However, because for his master's and doctorate de
he has retired, he is relieved of duties grees in chemistry.
such as faculty committees. In 1951, after acting as an assistant
professor, Dixon left the University to
"I like to teach, it keeps me young, lead a project at the California Re
makes me stay up on my chemistry search Corporation.
and is one of the few ways of contrib- Dixon was then an associate profes
uting and perpetuating my science," sor at Lafayette College for three
he said. years. After Lafayette, he rejoined
Dixon teaches Chemistry 16, a the Penn State faculty and in 1961
course about chemistry as a profes- became a full professor. Six years
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LaMarr Kopp, associate provost, introduces T.C. Varghese of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, who spoke .at yesterday's seminar on international service programs sponsored by the
College of Human Development's.
opment programs and the implementation of land
reform or settlement, he said.
"In many countries of Asia and also Latin
America there is a lot of land available for new
settlement and this type of settlement program is
something which the countries are giving 'a lot of
emphasis," Varghese noted.
Also included in this category are the restructur
ing of the extension system and the decentraliza
tion of development administration.
The second category deals with improving the
conditions of certain disadvantaged groups such
as women, landless and small farmers, and youth,
while the third attacks the problems of undevel
oped or backward areas within a country, Varg
hese said.
"Human development is not possible by itself,"
he said.
Candidates selected for field staff positions must
have considerable experience with the work in the
later, Dixon earned the title of assis
tant head of the chemistry depart
ment and from 1970-83 was
department head.
While at the University, Dixon par
ticipated in a research project spon
sored by the American Petroleum
Institute. The project involved exper
imenting with compounds in lubricat
ing oil for cars exposed to high
pressure. In the 19605, Dixon's re
search interests centered on organo
metallic chemistry.
He said his organometallic chemi- lishing venture. It also supports pub
cal experiments involved "very inter- lic relations to inform people that
esting compounds, (with unusual chemistry is comprehensible and is
bonding) radically different from not a "dirty word," Dixon said.
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developing countries, Varghese said. They are
given a three to four day briefing as well as
bickground material and literature concerning
work already done in their particular field, he
added.
Because of the need for experience, new grad
uates cannot be assigned to such positions. Howev
er, the FAO does have two programs to train them,
he said.
In the first program, called the associate ex
perts scheme, promising graduates are sent to
work with the FAO for about two years by those
countries which can afford to pay their salaries.
The graduates spend most of their time working in
the field, Varghese said.
He said the second, the Junior Professional
Training Program, facilitates the recruitment of
fresh candidates from less affluent countries by
making it possible for them to send a few people to
work in the FAO headquarters.
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offered by the University in years,
Tischler said.
Some of the features of Summer
Session 1989 were a special pre-ma
triculation program created for black
students and implementation of an
agressive marketing plan for Sum
mer Session, she said.
"In numbers alone, our Summer
Session is potentially among the top
ten universities in the country,"
Tischler said. "With effort and imagi
nation. we can become one of the
nation's premier summer sessions."
The office of Summer Session is
trying to make Summer Session more
flexible in time modules, in use of
faculty and in approach, Tischler
said. The office also hopes to make
Summer Session more comprehen
sive, creative and responsive to the
academic needs of Penn State stu
dents,' and more attractive to pro
spective students.
As for Fall Semester, enrollment at
the University is about 570 students
below the administration's target fig
ure, the University vice president for
academic services told the trustees
yesterday.
The preliminary number of stu
dents enrolled in all of the Universi
ty's degree programs this fall is
58,557, Robert Dunham said. Al
though final enrollment figures will
not be available until October, the
estimated final enrollment for Fall
Semester is 61,000 students.
This compares to a total of 63,050
students last fall, he said.
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The total number of freshmen stu
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With regard to the recent contro
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PSU to gain biotech institute
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University, private industries and the state. The Ben
Franklin Program has allocated $225,000 to match the
$745,000 donated by outside sources for the program,
Jordan said.
Thomas Beaver Jr., University executive director of
industrial development, said the sum raised by outside
sources breaks down into $614,000 which has been pledged
by corporations associated with the project, such as
Bethlehem Steel, Procter & Gamble Co. and IBM and
$131,000 from the University.
One of the first steps in the establishment of the
institute will be to renovate North Frear Building,
Brenchley said.
Jordan said two buildings will be erected this year to
house the labs and classroom which are now being used in
North Frear Building. He expects one of these buildings to
be located near the existing agricultural buildings and the
other to be built on North Atherton Street near the
engineering buildings.
Jordan said the exact locations must be approved by
the University's Board of Trustees. Those buildings will
later be used by the institute.
He said architects and consultants have arready begun
renovation plans for Frear and he expects the work to be
completed within 18 months.
Brenchley, who has a strong background in academic
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of the drawbacks of the University's
new Administrative Information Sys
tem (AIS), the system is doing a good
deal of what it is supposed to do.
The new computer system success
fully processed about 7,000 students
through phone-in registration, Wil
liam C. Richardson said.
The lines associated with drop/add
were not caused only by the computer
system, Richardson said.
research and also has firsthand experience with the
problems faced by industries using, that research,
stressed the need for industries and researchers to work
together.
"Application-oriented research" will be the focus of the
institute, she said. This type of research bridges the gap
between basic and applied research to solve problems
which are common to pharmaceutical, agricultural and
chemical industries, she explained.
Brenchley, the former director of research at Genex
Corp., said the institute's academic program will em
phasize to students the different disciplines involved in
biotechnology, such as agriculture and engineering. The
program will consist of courses that will be offered to
graduate and undergraduate students, but she said it will
not be a separate major in itself.
She explained that students will be trained in broader
areas of science than their specific majors and be shown
what the impact of their work will be in industry.
Brenchley said she is hopeful the institute will encourage
students to become more competitive and knowlegeable
about the field of advanced technology. •
The industrial aspect of the institute will provide
service and research needed by industries cooperating
with the project. Brenchley said lectures will be given to
industry's employees to educate them on advanced tech
nological systems and keep them updated on the latest
innovations.
The information system does what
it is supposed to do until it is under
pressure, he said. It is placed under
pressure when about 250 terminals
are placed "on line," he explained.
"When we get to 250, we hit the
wall," Richardson said. "When we hit
the wall, the response time degrades
from the typical response time of
about five seconds up to response
times into the minutes."
USEC supports plan to
move Buckhout gardens
way to put students in on the
ground floor about plans about the
location of new buildings.
The University Student Exec- She said student input could
utive Council voted unanimously have prevented the controversies
last night to support an adminis- that arose dealing with the gar
tration plan to move the Buckhout dens, as well as with the federal
gardens and replace them with a credit union under construction in
five-story lab building. North Halls.
In the 12-0 vote, USEC voted to Also discussed was USEC's vot
accept the report of the subcom- er registration drive.
By ROBERT P. KING
Collegian Staff Writer
mittee organized to look into the Organization of Town Indepen
matter. dent Students President Roger
USEC vice-chairman Vic Lund- Sobeck said only 10 percent of the
berg, who presided at the meeting student population is registered to
in the absence of chairman Adam vote, and the turnout on campus is
Levinson, said he and four other 0.5 percent.
USEC members met with mem- USEC will be sending people to
bers of the administration on register students in the residence
Tuesday to discuss the plan to halls and the apartments in town
erect the new 100,000- square-foot and will supply absentee ballots to
building on the present site of the students registered out of town.
gardens. Sobeck said.
Lundberg said the University Also discussed was a proposal to
has made a commitment to move reorganize the budget committee
the gardebs to another site, al- of Associated Student Activities.
though it does not want to be held Sobeck, head of the subcommit
to a specific date. tee looking into the proposals, said
Rather than bulldoze the gar- the allocation system "hasn't been
dens and plant new gardens else- changed for twenty years."
where, the University will either
move the gardens to a temporary Organizations that have been
location or replant them at a per- around for a while often get the
manent site. It is possible such a lion's share of the funding, while
site would be in the vicinity of the newer groups are left out, he said.
Birch Cottages along Shortlidge Under the proposals USEC
Road, he said. would review applicants for the
University Student Government budget committee and would nom-
Senate President Kate Cooney inate the candidates for budget
suggested that USEC devise some committee chairman, he said.
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