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Food and festivity followed the athletics. Saturday night, Penn served up large portions of roast beef at a sumptuous banquet. Sunday night parties celebrated the tourney's end. The Harvard women took over Pagano's, a Philadelphia Italian restaurant featuring lotsa pasta. They cornered Pagano's bar and danced tirelessly to a band blasting the best of the disco sounds. Diving coach John Walker invented a new dance called "the basketball," and the band dedicated Rolls Royce's "Car Wash" to the Harvard women, presumably with some reason behind the selection...
...beginning, training was preparation for Peace Corps service; now it is a part of Peace Corps service," says Jules Pagano, acting director of the Division of University Relations and Training...
...result, we have tried to integrate all the components of the training program into real-life experiences in the field, based on the needs of specific projects and countries," Pagano explained. "The training period has been expanded to 13 weeks with at least three of those weeks devoted to actual field assignments such as working in the slums of New York or Puerto Rico, practice teaching on Indian reservations or doing community development in the Virgin Islands...
...training programs become less academic, colleges and universities are cooperating enthusiastically in providing the kind of preparation the Peace Corps needs. Pagano said. "To do this we are using off-campus facilities related to expected country experience." Dartmouth training programs for French-speaking Africa, for example, now go on to Quebec for practical field experience." (See story on Junior Year Program, page...
...might be expected, this transition in training procedures also has jumped the cost of Peace Corps training from $2,400 per Volunteer to $2,700. Pagano said, but he believes the results will be worth...