Show Shriver l Future of the Peace Corps By ROGER EBERT president of the U.S. Student Press Association and editor of The Daily was one of four editors to spend one week in Washington recently to edit the Peace Corps a supplement to campus newspapers that appear twice This is the first of a three part D.C. The fundamental question facing the Peace Corps at the start of its third according to tor R. can be stated young Americans realize how unglamorous and the work of developing nations can will they be tricked into believing it is also THIS WAS the problem as Shriver outlined it at two major student meetings in the National Student Congress of the United National Student and the of the Federation of Catholic College It is also a problem which gains increasing attention in the Peace Corps Washington offices as re-turning Volunteers report that their greatest adversaries in the field were and a sense of are loath to take things and Peace Corps Volunteers are no Shriver said in a September interview with WE'RE ALL used to quick and we forget that most societies around the world are moving at a It takes longer to achieve and make This is one of the things you can't really demonstrate dur-ing the Peace Corps training pe It has to be learned in the Shriver said any of how is often more than some project areas have seen may be so to because in two years they had succeeded only in moving the ball from the line to the Shriver often they forget that it may be the first time the ball has moved at all in a particular test of the Peace he be whether we are mature and sophisticated enough to realize THE PEACE CORPS director pointed that creative Volunteers often have an edge on the experts in underdeveloped When the was being he one of the most frequent questions How can Volunteers accomplish anything in areas where experts have tried and are now Shriver in many of these areas our adaptable Volunteers are gaining better results than the experts an for an almost obvious The experts require and and then more often than not they discover that the society simply not respond to expert Our on the other go into an area and work with the tools at They adapt to a And most they work and live with the gaining their confidence and SHRIVER AND other top Peace Corps officers are confident that the initial enthusiastic response to the Peace Corps idea will not lessen as the Corps loses its first glow of bloom is off the there's no longer the thrill of being the first Volunteers will find their work second or the tenth wave of Volunteers wil their work cut out for and win often find themselves in a position to achieve more meaningful results because of the groundwork of the pioneer job of a Volunteer today in a more difficult than it was two years he first Volunteers could to make now the situation is Yet there is a greater potential for and I confidence that the achievements of the Peace Corps in the coming years will justify the sacrifices and hopes of the first v OF THREE REALISTIC LOOK AT THE I |