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Meanwhile Lamont Library has announced that, in answer to requests, it has acquired six copies of the Millikan report to President Kennedy on the Youth Corps...
University officials and students actively involved in peace corps projects expressed reserved enthusiasm last night for the International Youth Service Agency as proposed by Max Millikan, Director of International Affairs at M.I.T...
Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of the International Students Office, called the proposal "too small." While Millikan suggested limiting the project to "several thousand" people, Eberly saw an eventual need for several hundred thousand. He noted that Afghanistan hopes to increase its elementary educational facilities from 800 to 12,000 schools by 1980, and that in that nation alone, a teacher training program could effectively employ several thousand Americans...
Because the demand to enter the program probably will far exceed the available openings, Millikan sees the criteria for selection as one of the keys to its success. He recommends that only college graduates be accepted, at least during the program's first years. Their selection, he says, should be based partly upon scholastic achievement and partly upon personality assessments. But because academic standards vary greatly throughout the country, some kind of sectional quota system may have to supplement the actual selection criteria...
...insure that the ISYA does not be come a weapon of the cold war, Millikan said, the Administration's proposal must be worded with extreme care; and then this country must continue to show that it is serious in its desire to cooperate. Discussing the proposals in his report, he said yesterday that the United States should issue a statement welcoming Soviet assistance: "The best way of 'pulling their teeth' is to show that our chief interest is in getting the job done...