Yale Chaplain Labels College Peace Corps Inferior to Eli's Plan

A clearing house for students interested in participating in the proposed peace corps has been established at Yale. The new Hason office is called "Yale Men Abroad" and differs from Harvard's youth corps in both concept and size.

The Yale program will provide counseling service for all students interested in working abroad. It will evaluate the various foreign employment programs now in operation and advise the individual student which program he is best suited for.

William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain, called the new program more comprehensive than those at other schools, explaining that "the Michigan and Harvard Programs, however excellent, are inadequate on three counts: 1) they involve very few of the total number of students interested, 2) they are costly and 3) they do not avail themselves of existing possibilities."

Eberly Answers Criticism

In response to the Rev. Coffin's criticism of the Harvard program, Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of international students, called Yale's program "a good idea, but inadequate."

"The Yale program is inadequate in the sense that the selection will be made by the several agencies and not by Yale. The unique value of a college program is that the selection is done internally, by faculty members who have known the students," Eberly explained.

He added that if the University adopted plan similar to Yale's, it would be run by the Student Placement Office.