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Durham, North Carolina, Thursday, February 29, 1968
AID Official Speaks On African Foreign Policy
EXCHANGE STUDENT REGISTERS — Welcomng James
Prideen, a sophomore from North Carolina College at Durham, are
from left, Raymond O. Grosnick, dean of the Umversity of W^on-
sin Manitowoc County Center, and Ronald Dhuey, director of stu-
& afS at the Center. Pridgen, will be carrymg an 18-credit
load and is taking conrses in economics, English literature, business,
art survey, elementary logic, and math.
NCC Engages In Exchange Program
Peter Straus, director of all
United States foreign aid pro
grams for the continent of Afri
ca, described problems of the
continent and the United States
policy on those problems to stu
dents at North Carolina College
Thursday morning, February 1.
The official of the Agency for
International Development said
Africa has one of the highest
population growth rates of any
area in the world, but that its
agricultural growth is not keep
ing pace.
Interviews Set
A recruiting officer will be
on the North Carolina College
campus Wednesday, March 20,
1968 to interview students in
terested in full-time career posi
tions in Washington, D. C., the
U.S. Office of Education an
nounced today.
Students who expect to re
ceive a bachelor’s, master’s, or
doctor’s degree by July 1968
are invited to sign up for an in
terview appointment at the
Placement Bureau.
James Pridgen, 19-year-old
sophomore from North Carolina
College at Durham, is the first
North-South exchange student
to enroll at the University of
Wisconsin, Manitowoc County
Center.
Pridgen, a Pre-Business ma
jor, is taking part in the sec
tional exchange program de
signed to provide an interracial
and intercultural experience for
college students.
The North Carolina ex
changee, whose home town is
Snow Hill, will find a former
classmate here to introduce him
to university life at the Mam-
towoc Center. Miss Sharon
Haese, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard A. Haese, Route
2, Reedsville, will return to the
Center as a second semester
sophomore after spending the
fall term in Durham.
North Carolina College at
Durham is a coeducational, libe
ral arts college with a predomi
nantly Negro student popula
tion. Miss Haese was one of the
four Wisconsin exchangees at
tending the school last semester.
“An exchange student pays
his registration fee to his home
college,” Ronald A. Dhuey,
Manitowac Center director of
student affairs, explained. “But
he finances his transportation,
room, board, and books.”
While attending the Manito
woc Center, Pridgen will live
with Rev. and Mrs. James Lu-
dowise, 1129 N. 16th Street,
Manitov(^oc.
The primary purpose of the
program, according to Dhuey,
is to promote better cultural re
lations and to offer opportuni
ties for personal development
through new experiences.
Dhuey made all the arrange
ments for the student exchange
with Dr. Cecil Patterson, coordi
nator of the North-South pro
gram at North Carolina College.
Earlier in the year several
southern students had indicated
an interest in attending the
Manitowoc Center.
Other southern schools parti
cipating in the North-South ex
change are the Agricultural and
Technical College at North Car
olina at Greensboro, and Texas
Southern University at Houston.
UW-Racine Center will have
two students at each of these
institutions for the second se
mester.
This is the second exchange
that North Carolina College has
had with schools in northeast
ern Wisconsin. Last spring three
sophomore women from Durham
were enrolled in classes at the
UW-Marinette. These exchang
ees visited the Manitowoc Cen
ter in May and took part in a
panel discussion.
Foreign Study
Grants Available
Five scholarships of $1,000
each are available to qualified
students applying to the* Insti
tute for American Universities
for an academic year at Aix-en-
Provence, in Southern France.
In addition, an $800 French
Government Scholarship, re
served for French majors, and
25 tuition grants are awarded
each year.
The $1,000 scholarships are
divided among majors in French,
Literature, Fine Arts, History,
Social Science and Mediterra
nean Area Studies. (They are
not available to students en
rolled in the I. A. U. Simrnier*
Program or the I. A. U. Semes-
See Foreign Study, page 5
The following x>ositions are
open in the U. S. Office of Edu
cation;
• Educational Assistant
(Trainee) tx> work m f'ducatiop-
al research programs, computer
programming, public adminis
tration, education of the handi
capped or disadvantaged, stu
dent financial aid, and many
other fields determined by stu
dent preference. Requirements:
Writing and editing ability; li
beral arts majors with B.A.,
M.Ed., or M.A. degrees.
•Grants Management Trainee
to assist in the establishment
and administration of student
financial aid loans. Requirement.
Accounting or Business majors
with B.A. or M.B.A. degree.
•Education or Program Spe
cialist to do highly specialized
work in State school law, cur
riculum studies, adult education,
and other fields determined by
individual skills and interests.
Student must have demonstrat
ed innovative ability. Require
ment; Ph.D. in liberal arts sub
ject field, or Ed.D. in educa
tional administration or educa
tional research.
Applicants for GS-5 or GrS-7
jobs must pass the Federal
Service Entrance Examination;
a passing score for positions in
the U. S. Office of Education is
approximately 85.0. U.S. citizen
ship is required. All positions
are located in Washington, D. C.
The U. S. Office of Education
offers students professional ca
reers in a field which President
Johnson has called “the first
work of these times.” To streng
then education at all levels, the
Office carries out timely pro
grams to meet today’s educa
tional needs. Such programs in
clude education for disadvan
taged children, financial aid for
college students, adult basic
education, teacher training, sup
port for research in educational
technology, and vocational edu
cation.
“That’s one of the most dead
ly equations known,” Straus
said. He said the United States
makes no specific demands on
the nations aided in terms of
their own foreign policy, and
African Study
Program Slated
The first American Summer
Study Program to be held in
Africa has been by Dr. Melvin
Drimmer, Associate Professor of
history at Spelman College, At
lanta University Center, and
Executive Director of the
American Forum for African
Study.
The University of Ghana and
the University of London will
serve as the sites for a six-week
intensified program in African
studies.
The group of seventy accom
panied by six faculty will leave
New York June 29 for a week in
London where they will receive
an introduction to African stud
ies from some of the foremost
British scholars, including Basil
Davidson, Roland Oliver, and
Thomas Hodgkin.
They will then fly to Ghana
for five weeks of courses and
field work, under the direction
of Professor J .H. Nketia and his
staff at the Institute of African
Studies, yniversity of Ghana.
The party will return home on
August 12, after stops in West
African countries and Paris.
The program is open to Col
lege and secondary school facul
ty, upper level college students,
and others seriously interested
in Africa. The entire cost of the
forty-four day trip is $1,820.
Scholarships are available to
students. Places for the program
are still available.
The entire program has been
arranged by the American Fo
rum for African Study, a non
profit educational body estab
lished to promote cultural con
tacts between America and
Africa.
Further information ebout the
program can be obtained from
Dr. Melvin Drimmer at 404-874-
1457 or 404-522-6491.
reminded the students that Con
gress, which appropriates the
fxinds for foreign aid, does not
see the program as a give-away
activity.
“We don’t demand that these
nations support us at the UN,
but when a nation does as the
Sudan did recently and severs
diplomatic relations, Congress
says, ‘We’re not going to give
them aid if they won’t recog
nize us diplomatically?”
“There are two theories about
the best way to get U.S. aid,”
Straus said. “One theory is that
the more trouble a nation gives
us, the more aid they get. An
example is India. It seems t®
many observers that every time
Mrs. Gandhi gives us a going
over, we increase aid. Of course,
India needs more aid than most
countries, because of her im
mense population.”
He said the United States is
not the only nation giving aid
to African countries. In fact, he
said, the percentage of our
gross national products going in
to foreign aid is less than that
given by a number of free-world
countries.
Straus, who accompanied
Vice-President Humhrey on his
tour of Africa recently, said that
one of the concerns most re
mote to African heads of state
is the United States’ involve
ment in Viet Nam. He said that
when the issue was raised, it
was on Hiujnphrey’s initiative
because he felt responsible to the
heads of state to explain the
position of the nation.
•
“W hen American reporters
asked what the presidents of
these nations said about Viet
Nam, Humphrey replied, “They
didn’t mention it. We talked
about the problenis of their
country.’ ”
Straus also said that Africans
are very much interested in the
revolutionary history of the
United States. While they may
not agree with us on current
issues, they feel a bond because
of the United States’ having de
feated a colonial power to be
come a nation.
He said the ambitious youth
of the African nations, whose
populations are made up of 75
per cent of the people under 26
years, are their greatest re
sources.
HOW ARE THINGS BACK HOME?—Mutia Muthembwa, right,
a student at North Carolina College, gets the word on current events
in his native Kenya from R. Peter Straus, an official of the Agency
for International Development. Straus was one of the State Depart
ment officials who accompanied Vice-President Humphrey on his
recent tour of African states. Muthembwa has not returned to his
homeland for several years, since coming to the United States for
study. (NCC Photo).