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Show VISTA Delegates Outline Program programs, organizing clean-up campaigns, developing recreation recrea-tion programs, tutoring dropouts, drop-outs, setting up libraries, organizing organ-izing community meetings and surveying health needs. They have renovated one room school houses, started night classes for adults, and extended legal services ser-vices on bail bond projects. VISTA volunteers go where their help has been requested. Along with work in cities and rural areas, volunteers are also assigned to institutions for the mentally handicapped. They may request service in a specific geographical geo-graphical area in the United States or its territories and indicate in-dicate the type of assignment they prefer. Upon acceptance, candidates enter a six-week training program to prepare them for assignments. , No entrance examinations or interviews are necessary to join VISTA, and there are no education educa-tion or experience requirements. Those who wish to join must submit two applications which may be obtained from VISTA information center on campus along with further information. By ROD OLIVER Senior Editor Representatives from Volunteers Volun-teers In Service To America (VISTA) will be at the University Univer-sity to outline the program and its role in the war on poverty. THE VISTA people are set up beside the Huddle Ticket Booth between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. A movie on the work of VISTA will be shown in UB 160 at noon to 4 p.m. today, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Fri-day. Applications may be obtained ob-tained and returned at the VISTA booth. Anyone over 18 is eligible. VISTA volunteers work on Indian reservations, among migrant mi-grant farm workers, in urban slums, and in rural pockets of poverty ranging from Appalachian Appala-chian hollows to Alaskan villages. vil-lages. "WE'RE LOOKING for volunteers volun-teers of all backgrounds and abilities," reported Sam Fisk, leader of the VISTA contingent on campus. He described VISTA as "people who can listen, understand un-derstand and communicate with others who are committed enough to live and work for a year among the poor in this country." VISTA volunteers serve for one year, receiving living expenses ex-penses and medical care. In addition ad-dition to an allowence for food, housing, travel and clothing, they receive $600 at the end of their service. MR. FISK pointed out that over 2,000 VISTA volunteers are currently in training or on assignment as-signment to poverty areas throughout the United States. About 75 per cent of them are between the ages of 18 and 25. "Students now serving as volunteers vol-unteers are involved in a list of activities as long as the problems which poverty creates," he said. They are conducting literacy |