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Show Peace Corps seeks certain type of sensitive individual An effort is being made to recruit seniors and graduate students stu-dents in the University for service in the Peace Corps. The person the Peace Corps is looking for, said Luiz Lima, is the volunteer who is sensitive to the viewpoints of others and can accept the different customs and attitudes of the people abroad. He added that seniors, graduate students stu-dents and people with college degrees, regardless of the major, may join the Peace Corps. People without college degrees who have a useful skill such as carpentry and construction, can apply for entrance into the Peace Corps, said Mr. Lima. The volunteers have a choice of 61 different countries of the world on four continents to work in. There are over 300 different job positions they may enter when they begin work for the Peace Corps, commented Mr. Lima. In training for the work overseas, over-seas, Mr. Lima said, the Peace Corps will give the prospective applicant three months of training in the language of the country he will be sent to. The Peace Corps volunteer, while overseas, will receive a subsistence sub-sistence pay, enough to pay for his rent, his food and other costs he may face. Upon returning from his two year venture, Peace Corps volunteers will receive $ 1 600 after taxes, as a "readjustment allowance", allow-ance", stated Mr. Lima. He noted that the Peace Corps would be ideal today because of the unemployment unem-ployment problems facing many of today's college graduates. The college graduate would be able to visit a foreign country and interact inter-act with its people, and upon returning, receive enough money and experience to get started in the job market. People should not be worried if they have a family and want to join the Peace Corps, said Mr. Lima. They are encouraged to join the Peace Corps. The family would be eligible if they have four or less children and none of them are over 18 years of age. Language lessons will be given to the entire family and all of them will be sent together overseas. The children, said Mr. Lima, would be taught at either the American school in that country or at the local school there. Upon returning, the family will receive $4800 in readjustment money. , According to Mr. Lima, there are about 10,000 Peace Corps volunteers in the 61 foreign countries coun-tries that are in the ptopm cited the need for 3500 mo people this year and added a people will definitely go if have the skills the people in the foreign countries are seeking. Peace Corps volunteer d Mr. Lima, may leave j before completing the m engagement the Peace J . assigned them, but usuaU not the case because most vol teers renew their stay overseas i another year or two. Mr- t hav TU Corps member h e talked to some UravenW about me Peace Corps-W received, Mr. Lirrta jfeeb. response so far at then p Huddle Ticket Booth. H booth will be grving out W tions from 8 a.m. to P day till closing up Friday- |