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Student leaders at the University College of Ibadan in Nigeria had denounced the corps after discovering Miss Margery Michelmore's comments on these differences in a card to a friend in Cambridge. In a statement to the CRIMSON last night, the Peace Corps Information Office in Washington, D.C., said this denunciation has almost no chance of getting the Peace Corps out of Nigeria...
...Peace Corps has designated the University to train 45 Corps candidates this summer in part of a cooperative program between Harvard and University College at Ibadan, Nigeria...
...week tour of Nigeria to make preliminary arrangements for the cooperative program. Monro conferred with educational officials and visited schools in western Nigeria, the area to which Harvard trainees will be assigned. After Harvard trains the young volunteers, the Harvard trains the young volunteers, the University College at Ibadan will complete the orientation and practice teaching curriculum...
...program for 45 students will cost an estimated $118,000--supplied by the Peace Corps and administered at Ibadan will supports part of the program...
...education. The lucky student who passes entrance exams, happy in the knowledge that he can never again be called "boy," considers himself part of an anointed elite. On graduation, he feels that he can preserve his special status only by entering the civil service. Until lately, upon landing at Ibadan's lavish campus, the undergraduate has hardly had to lift a finger. Room servants tended his every need. When Ibadan recently put in a cafeteria, outraged students went on strike...