The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 23, 1978-Page 9 ACTION recruiter visits By STEVE SHAER As part of a 50-city tour designed "to get the message to the public that we're moving again," Larry Brown, national recruitment director for ACTION, visited campus yesterday in an effort to kindle student interest in the Peace Corps and VISTA. ACTION, a federal agency, was organized in 1971 to con- solidate the Peace Corps, VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) and other federal public service groups under one authority. ACCORDING TO Brown, ACTION is "in the process of rebuilding" after some rough treatment at the hands of the Nixon Administration., "What happened in the Nixon Administration was that we were one of its abuses," said Brown in reference to that ad- ministration's attempt to eliminate the Peace Corps program entirely. "In 1968 the Johnson Administration allocated $125 million dollars for the Peace Corps and Nixon cut the hell out of it to $71 million dollars," Brown added. AT AN INFORMAL session at the International Center later in the day, Brown told students and ex-volunteers, "I've seen confidential memos from the Nixon Administration and they showed that there was a conscious plan to weed out ac- tivists and cut back drastically on volunteers." The attempt to limit the programs was foiled by the willingness of many volunteers to work and keep them going, said Brown. Accompanying Brown at yesterday's session were two Detroit area ACTION recruiters who elaborated on what kind of individuals they were looking for. "A MAJOR IN a specific field is not necessary for the Peace Corps," said recruiter Joyce Howell. "There are so many changes in the world that by the time you graduate college who knows what is needed." "We want people right off the campuses. We want skilldd,. people, but we are opening the doors up for a broader rag of Americans to work in these programs," Brown said. He reiterated that the days of biased selection practices seen under the Nixon Administration are over. "OUR PROGRAMS have to look like our country looks, young, old, black, white, male, female, skilled and un skilled," he stressed. At the private interview, Brown made it clear that times have changed since Carter took office. Carter has given his support for ACTION along with a budget allocation of oIr $165 million dollars for the Peace Corps and VISTA: programs. A bi-partisan coalition in Congress is also throwing its support for the volunteer agencies. To illustrate the Peace Corps experience, six former Peace Corps volunteers at yesterday's meeting related their per=- sonal experiences. Julia Meck, a former Peace Corps volun- teer and present recruiter said, "It's so exciting to the natives of the country you're in to see that we speak the language. They become so pleased." BROWN SAID ACTION programs are better able to deal with national and international problems now because t problems are better understood. , "We see ourselves working with people to solve problenrs!' on a local level; to teach the local people to care for them- selves," Brown stated. Brown asked the students what they thought of the Peace Corps working in countries with repressive governments, such as Chile. "It is your responsibility to help the village, even if it means going against the government of the country," said senior Rosanne Charles. "The responsibility is to help the people there." Daily Photo by WAYNE CABLE ACTION National Recruitment Director Larry Brown and Detroit area Action recruiter Julia Meck discuss the future of their organization yesterday at the International Center. Brown said ACTION is now in the process of rebuilding following the Nixon and Ford administrations. MSA filing deadline approaches 1975 under the now defunct Stude' nt By MARK PARRENT Next month's Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) election is heating up as the filing deadline for candidates nears. The deadline for all MSA can- didates is Monday, March 27 at 5 p.m. Thirty-nine spots, including the president and vice-president, will be filled in the election April 10, 11 and 12. Candidate filing applications are available in the MSA offices, 3909 Michigan Union. THIS ELECTION is the first under MSA's new election procedures. Students of each school will elect a number of representatives based on number of students enrolled in the par- ticular school, in accordance with an amendment to the All-Campus _Con- stituti6"n approved by students in February. The following schools and colleges will have one seat on the Assembly with one-half vote: Architecture and Urban Planning, Art, Library Science, Phar- macy and Public Health. The following schools and colleges will elect . one representative each with one vote: Dentistry, Education, Law, Medicine, Music, Natural Resources and Nursing. Business Administration will have two seats, Engineering, 3; Rackham, 6; and the Literary College, 11. While school and college represen- tatives can only be elected by students of their respective school, the president and vice president will be elected as a slate by the entire campus. ERIC.ARNSON of the newly formed Student Alliance for Better Represen- tation Party (SABRE) and Nancy Smith of the Move party are announced candidates for president and vice president respectively on an indepen- dent slate. Irving Freeman and Jay Barrymore of the Bullshit party are also running as a slate. All four are presently MSA members. The president and vice president were last directly elected by students in Government Council. Since that time, the president and vice president have been elected by MSA members. Also to be decided in the upcoming election is a ballot proposal designed to create a mandatory student assessment of $2.92 per term to finance, among other things, the Campus Legal Aid office. Legal Aid is presently in danger of losing its University funding. Also included in the fee is an increased cut for MSA itself. Currently, MSA projects are funded by a voluntary $1.15 per term student assessment. Any change in funding approved by students must also be approved by the University Regents. Buy two- Get one Free! . $739 MEMOREX Re Reproduction so true it can MEMOREX90.4 Free! MEMOREX 90 SMEMOREX9 .O cordngaee shatter glass. Dental clinic's fate hinges on election (Continued from Page 1) money away from other areas like fixing the city's blighted streets. THE DENTAL clinic is just one of the community projects funded by CDBG money, the others being the Model Cities child care center and the legal aid service. Last Monday night, City Council held a public hearing on how next year's CDBG funds should be allocated, and Doretta Taylor was there, like she has been for the last four years, lobbying for the dental clinic, pleading for con- tinued refunding, and putting in a plug for a possible new facility to replace their present cramped confines. Taylor said she usually trys to avoid City Council appearances. She explains that whenever she has to lobby for fun- ds, she is accused of trying to protect her own job, and charged with being a puppet of Mayor Albert Wheeler, a sup- porter of Model Cities. "I'M HERE TO see that this place runs, and runs well and for the people," Taylor says. "I am not a political per- son. I don't want to get up there fighting Republicans and Democrats on Coun- cil." "I'm not fighting for my job," she says, pointing out that she quit a position as a registered nurse at the Veteran's Administration (VA) hospital to come to Model Cities. Model Cities serves patients from the designated community development area of the city. The dental clinic charges people according to what they are able to pay, and, for some patients, charges nothing at all. EMMA WHEELER, chairperson of the dental clinic's board, says the den- tal program has been "a great boost to the people in the community." "A number of people that we serve have never had dental care before," Wheeler says, recalling the story of one senior citizen patient who had been living with her dental plate broken in five pieces for years, and could not af- ford to have it fixed. "And braces on children's teeth - that was a middle-class phenomenon," Wheeler says. "The people in the com- munity are very happy with the health care center. They're comfortable and happy, but they're dissatisfied with the facility." THE FACILITY is the second floor of a converted house that the center rents for $400 a month. "A number of our people with pacemakers can't climb the y v facility it's no longer an advantage to have the program at all. We can't con-. tinue with what we're getting now.' Wheeler, unlike Taylor, is not reluc- tant to talk about the problems with'the present building. Where Taylor says that "enemies" of the project may use the condition of the building to try to have it shut down, Wheeler says that only if people know about the center's problems can they begin to help. And also unlike Taylor, Wheeler is very much "a political person" who readily fixes the blame for the clinic's plight. "We can't get'those Republicans on Concil to give us the money to build a new facility," she said. "Those damn Republicans don't care. Heaven help us if we lose this election." TWO WEEKS ago, Mayor Albert Wheeler introduced a resolution that would have provided $450,000 of federal funds for building a new facility. Republicans on Council objected to the proposal as too costly, and argued that the location of the proposed center would not serve the needs of the entire city. At that meeting, Councilman Ronald Trowbridge (R-Fourth Ward) com- pared the proposed new facility to the pyramids of Egypt, the Arc de Triom- phe and Ronald McDonald's "golden arches." "Now we have Mayor Wheeler proposing $450,000 for a single building," Trowbridge said. COUNCILMAN Louis Senunas (R- Third Ward) said the proposed new building would "preclude any further neighborhood development. It puts all the money into a central facility," he said. Senunas insisted "we're not against human service, it's a question of allocated money." Councilman Wendell Allen (R-First Ward) agreed. "I've tried to stay non- partisan in dealing with human ser- vices," he said. AT THAT POINT, Councilman Jamie Kenworthy was overheard to say, "If God were listening, He'd strike him down right there." One who agrees with Kenworthy's jab is Ezra Rowry, chairman of the Model City's now-defunct policy board. "The Republican party is racist," he said. "The Republicans on Council are insen- sitive to the needs of poor people and black people." "We need a building," Rowry said. "We share a building. The building is too small. It's totally inconvenient. We've tried to get larger quotas for four years now." And as the partisan struggle con- tinues over the future of Model Cities, the clinic is struggling to maintain its daily routine from its cramped second- floor confines. And if Doretta Taylor is We specialize in ladies's and children's hairstyling DASCOLA STYLISTS " 615 E. Liberty-668-9329 " 3739 Washtenaw-971-9975 " 613 N. Maple-761-2733 " 611 E. University-662-0354 worried that the political juggling may lead to the loss of the clinic, then she does not show her fear. 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