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BORING, TRA VELING:
Students Aid Nations with Work Camps
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By CAROLINE DOW
Turks, Germans, and Ameri-
cans will work, live and discuss
international problems in work-
camps this- summer.
So will Japanese, Mexicans,
Frenchmen and scores of other
nationalities, not separately in
smoky conference rooms but to-
gether in camps, shacks and
ruins, not all day till the mind
spins, but after eight hours of
hard work, and not elderly states-
men, but youth.
This summer, University stu-
dents will convene from every
nook and world cranny to rebuild
homes in Turkey, to make way for
a dam by transplanting a town
in Mexico and to aid communities
in Europe, Africa and the Middle
East.
To Work
Interns in industry will work
for the summer in white collar
and assembly-line jobs and will
compare their experiences when
they return to community houses
to prepare their dinners.
An Italian aid will report over
the dinner table, how she was
reprimanded by the grandmother
next to her for coming to work
with a Negro. Understanding will
grow with the thrashing out of
problems with visiting labor and
management leaders.
Living simply, student groups
in France and Germany will re-
construct villages, and some will
reconstruct people in the refugee
camps. Others will live and work
with families of grape pickers,
learning to be picturesque for 40
hours a week.
Work With Insane
In America, closely knit groups
will work as Institutional Service
Units, working with the mentally
ill, giving them desperately need-
ed supervised attention.
As the unit works, each indi-
vidual in it will learn clinical ap-
proaches to intensely human
problems and vice-versa.
These programs are sponsored
by the National Council of
Churches, by individual churches,
by international organizations
and by the American Friends
Service Cbmmittee. They make
the arrangements, provide leaders
and funds for those who need it,
and let the participants work out
their own problems.
And they have problems, but il-
luminating ones. A group with
varied backgrounds, creeds, and
loyalties living in close, rough
quarters under a tiring work
schedule and with unlimited free
discussion find differences.
They also find unique solutions
or at least a way to understand.
Often they do not seek solutions,
they are forced into them by the
necessity for harmony under dif-
ficult conditions.
The difficulties come not over
the work job as often as they do
over recreation. The work they
agreed to do when they came. But
every workcamp includes recrea-
tion and trips to surrounding
areas.
For the trips the time taken
from work, the choice of itinerary
and the method of travel are all
matters of dissension as each stu-
dent places different importance
to the trip according to his back-
ground and interests. This also
applies to the local recreation.
A camp in Finland almost broke
up without finishing their project
when they split into factions over
a two-day trip to a Finnish patri-
otic site. The Americans did not
realize the importance to the
Finns of reaching this site, who
might never be in the vicinity
againi their lifetime.
Two days of wrangling reached
its peak when one of the leaders
realized that he had mistranslat-
ed a word, a word in the key sen-
tence of the Finnish argument for
the trip. Hard, feelings died and
the trip was scheduled.
Participants are eligible with
the barest essentials of language
if they are willing to work hard.
Manual skills are taught or im-
provised and everybody cooks.
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ENGINEERS
The Bureau of Ships
Offers Civilian
Opportunities
In Challenging
Fields
The Bureau of Ships of the U. S. Navy has
opportunities for engineers in the following
specialties: Electrical, Electronic, Mechani-
cal, Civil (for training as Naval Architects),
Marine and Naval Architecture.
You will participate in programs involving
new concepts and advanced studies in ship,
machinery and electronic design including
hydrofoil craft . . . air cushion ships . .
motion stabilizers ... thermo-electric power
generation ... thermionic power conversion
... fuel cells . . . magneto-hydrodynamic
propulsion . . . missile environment . . .
noise reduction ... radar, sonar communi-
cations.
Training programs are tailored to individual
assignments, and job-related graduate study
is sponsored by the Bureau of Ships.
Positions are available in the Headquarters
Office in Washington, D. C., and in the naval
shipyards and laboratories throughout the
United States.
INTERVIEWS ON YOUR CAMPUS
Arrange with your Placement Officer to meet
the representative of the Bureau of Ships, who
will be on your campus on
FEB. 11th
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WORK BREAK-After a summer of work camp experience, students usually tour some of Europe.
Here a group of students, making a trip by bicycle, stop in the Belgian town of Gent to map their
tour for the day. Traveling also takes place during the term of the work camp program.
AT WASHINGTON:
College Has Anti-Semitic Incident
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SEATTLE W- - Racial taunts
aimed at a new freshman class
president who retaliated with an
obscene gesture brought an offi-
cial investigation of possible anti-
semitism on the University of
Washington campus Thursday.
Charles E. Odegaard, university
president, directed the dean of stu-
dents and the faculty committee
on student welfare, "to determine
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Given Memoir
The UniversityrRegents ex-
pressed their sorrow over the
death of Edward J. Vandawarker,
campus mail clerk, in a memoir
on Jan. 2.
Vandawarker, 69, served the
University for 48 years in which
he worked for all of the presidents
from Angell to Hatcher, knew
them personally and was liked by
all.
to what extent such religious big-
otry might be present."
The incident, which occurred
during the freshman class elec--
tion campaign, resulted in suspen-
sion of Bruce Osterman, 18 years
old, of San Francisco, from the
class presidency until the end of
the school year.
The suspension was ordered by
the student judiciary committee
"for conduct unbecoming a can-
didate." ,
Osterman said he was provoked
into the gesture by anti-semitic
remarks during a parade through
the fraternity house district.
He said a car bearing a swastika
crowded to the head of the line
and shouts said, "eat it, Jew," and
"catch this Jew."
Osterman, an electrical engi-
neering student, said his gesture
was "pure reflex," and indicated
he would appeal the suspension
from office.
Both the committee chairman,
Stan Israel, and the prosecutor for
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HOdegaard said discrimination
has been virtually unknown in
campus activities.
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