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Wednesday, March 10, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Promotion drives replace draft in Volunteer Armv
Bv DAVE HAUBER
Staff Writer
In England, knocking unsuspecting civilians over the heads or dragging them away from drugged ale mugs to awaken in His Majesty's service was one 18th century method by which the ranks of the English military were filled.
In the United States, riots broke out in New York City because of the inequities of the drafting system during the Civil War. More recently, foreign countries and jails became the rest resting spots for those who were guilty of piracy conscription during the Vietnam War.
But now there is a more peaceable way by which the U.S. Army is filling its military quotas. It's called the Volunteer Army. Registration for the draft ended April 1,
Recently, the selective service, which had operated in this country through various wars, was shut down in Kansas. Gone are the parades of men lining the halls of draft board offices while harassed secretaries and militias determining the fares of men's lives.
"THERE'S NO ONE walking in here asking where the draft lady is," Capt. George B. Utter, area infantry commander yesterday. "It's going to a mothball site."
The Army has been approaching the problem of getting enough recruits for their military quotas since the draft began winding down after the Vietnam war.
Utter said the Volunteer Army is now in its third year of existence. It began, he said, in the summer of 1973, when the emphasis of recruiting quotas was on quantity.
outer said that in the second year of the Volunteer Army, recruiting emphasis was placed on the high quality. The recruiting quotes which the Congress placed on the Army were met and
exceeded during the Volunteer Army's Utter said, and are currently on schedule.
Roughly 200,000 recruits a year were recruited by the quotas he, said, to bring the force to about 600,000 men. The Army to about 785,000 men and women. Of that number, about 42,000 are women. The Army makes up about 46 per cent of all Department of Defense enlistments, he said.
THE ARMY HAS 13 divisions, 15,000 soldiers a division, he said, and plans to increase the number of divisions to 18. All the divisions are ready for combat, Utted said, whereas at the end of the Vietnam war, six of the 13 were prepared to enter combat.
The Army, he said, has 83 per cent of its personnel geared up to take the role the Army is expected to play in supporting supportive roles.
Although 70,000 men have reenlisted in the Volunteer Army, Utter said, active recruitment must keep up with the vacancies which occur every year. Utter said one thing he did to recruit was to attend a course at universities at least twice before being graduated.
HIGH SCHOOL graduates ages 17 to 19 are the focus of recruiting efforts. Utter said, because they are more available for college, less set in their ways and less tied to home.
Another consideration in seeking high quality data is the situation that they had completed high quality data, and a show that they could deal with authority and 'hid' completed the system and gutted it.
Sixty-five per cent of those in the Army have high school diplomas, he said.
Three high school dropouts who were seeking to enlist in the Army were interviewed in the local recruiting office in Lawrence
Dan Else, RFD 4, said he had decided to
enlist in the Army after having submitted 400 applications for jobs and not getting one offer. He said the Army would offer him a preference for a job such as a heavy equipment technician or train him to job outside the Army if he decided not to make the Army a career.
ELSE, 19, SAID he quit high school,
although he has since made up his degree by
correspondence, because he couldn't stand
studying for tests.
"There were only two subjects I liked: science and math," he said. "The teachers get on your back a lot in high school. It's an all-round hassle."
David Manlove, 243 Riddle Court, 17, said he quit high school because "school just became too hard."
He said he wanted to learn a trade and earn some money. In the Army, he said, you work "with your hands and not your head." He didn't use his name when he insisted if that's what he wants.
KARL FAUKE, 2001 Ohio, 18, gave the same reasons for wanting to join the Army as the others interviewed—job opportunity and money. He said his parents didn't really care whether he joined the Army and asked what that was that what he really wanted to do.
Faune said he wanted to go to heavy equipment operator school in the Army because he liked to work with his hands. He was a graduate of all three where he was to do study books.
Else said of going into the Army, "It's not that we don't want to work with our minds: When we in school all's we did was work with our minds.
"When you can get out, and when you're working shoveling manure on a farm, you're still working at something and you're still thinking.
"All my relatives tell me that the Army would be good for me, even my Dad."
ELSE SAID that he had had a drug
charge against him, and that he had been when he had tried to enlist in the Air Force.
The Army, he said, would be willing to let him enter because he had only one charge on him.
"There are two things in the Army," he said. "You can either make it or break it,
The idea of sending someone through the Army to straighten him out is something the Army uses.
ONE OF THE FIRST criticisms of the Volunteer Army when it was suggested by former President Nixon that it would attract a lower caliber soldier. During a period of war, Utter said, the Army can lower its standard of mental requirements.
Army, or to go jail," he said. "I don't say the Army's for everybody, but it does satisfy a broad range of needs for a broast range of people."
Most people recruited are in the 17 to 19 age group, he said, and some people
High school dropouts may resent authority when they quit school and, although they may face more regimented authority in the Army, Utter said, "We're not in a counseling business. That's a hard place for them (the recruiter) is under pressure to sell."
Recruiters earn from $50 to $150 extra for their shared sclv assignments. Utter said.
The pressure from recruiting command to recruit people is great, he said. In the 22 eastern Kansas counties, Utter said, about 1,000 persons are recruited. A recruiter in a county expected to make one enlistment a week and one deployed enlistment a week.
UTTER SAID enlistments for the Volunteer Army were treated like a product in any other business. He said promotion drives were scheduled during times when
enlstments might be higher, such as in the spring.
The Army's attractive features, Utter said, include a bonus program, the delayed-entry enlistment and the contract-entry enlistment.
The bonus program offers a recruit en-
training a certain field such as combat arms,
a marine corps, or another.
Uttter said the delayed entry system "is the only way for us to survive now."
Under the delayed entry program, a recruit can artist in the Army and wait to accept his offer.
The contract enlistment involves showing a potential recruit what is available in the way of jobs and school slots in the Army. When a recruit decides he wants to enter the army, the Army must give him a slot said, and the Army must give him a slot in one of those areas or cancel the contract.
The contract system of enlistment is cheaper than the Army's for war operation because it is much more precise, he said. Computers are checked to see when a position may be open so that it can be filled by a delayed-enlistment recruit.
WITH THE DRAFT system, Utter said, a man could be told to do anything the Army
Now, he said, "We've got to realize that round pegs fit in round holes. In the old days we could pound a round peg into a square hole."
On entering the Army, a new recruit can expect $32.90 a month as an E-1 rating. The ratings for enlisted men range up to that of an E-9, which is a sergeant major. The top pay for a sergeant major after 26 years of service is $1,311.60 a month.
Besides the monthly salary, Utter said, a soldier gives his housing, clothes and other expenses.
Summer jobs sought for Indians
By BILL UTE
Staff Writer
By BILL UYEKI
Summer jobs may be hard for Indian students to find in the Lawrence, Kansas City and Topeka areas, but L. Edward Norman is helping them look.
Norman, Kansas City, Mo., junior, is director of Summer Employment for Indians (SEI), a nonprofit organization developed by University of Kansas students to provide summer job placement for students from Haskell Indian Junior College.
He said yesterday that SEI had a goal of providing placement for 500 students in Lawrence and surrounding communities this summer. In the long run, he said, SEI hopes to upgrade the status of Indian students and offer an integral part of the community and to improve the relationship between KU and Haskell.
NORMAN EMPHASIZED that SEI was started by students. About 12 KU students are SEI workers, he said. Last month Haskell's student senate approved the SEI program and provided office space for SEI to use at Haskell.
"It was rewarding to see that SEI was so readily accepted," she said.
Nancy Weeks, a student senate representative at Haskell and assistant director of SEI, said most Haskell students had little luck finding summer jobs. But she said Norman and his SEI program were well received by the student senate.
No decision has been announced on whether there will be a summer school at St. Thomas's College in New York.
more students would go home if there was no summer session.
LORETTA FLORES, Anadarko, Okla,
sophomore and former Haskell student,
said many students would like to stay in
Lawrence, but the needed jobs to do.
"Employment in town is hard enough to find for most students, but it's even harder for Indians," said Flores, who is a member of the U.S. Military Academy and the campus American Indian organization.
Norman said about 75 Haskell students bad signed up for SEI's services so far. For job preference, he said, they list, "anything, anything, anything."
The SEP has been communicating with local businesses by mailing lists with assistance from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and receiving letters from national offices of companies with stores and branches in this area. There are no figures for the number of available jobs yet, he said, but the response indicated that there has been a "better than 50 per cent positive."
TO IMPROVE the relationship between KU and Haskell, Norman said, one SEI worker is in charge of publicizing campus events at the school can attend events at the other school.
Norman, a black student, said he was belong members of another minority because his mother worked in the factory.
"I am concerned about all people, especially those sharing the same degree of struggle in the '70s as the blacks did in the '60s." he said.
He also emphasized the importance of the nation's bicentennial celebration and said
TONIGHT; SUPPORTIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES will sponsor a job-seeking seminar from 7 to 9 in the Council Room of the Union. 1976 INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY will be celebrated at 7:30 in the Forum Room of the Union. A Sex Roles and FEMINISM MICRO-LAB will be at the Feminist Center J.K.HE's "Administrator Profile" will feature an interview with Ron Clement, graduate student, for a Yoko Fuda, Sendai, Japan, graduate student, will give a voice recital at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall. She will be accompanied by Yuriko Salto, Fukushima, Japan, graduate student.
Graduate students or seniors with exceptional form, who wish to teach LA&S courses, should pick up a course proposal form at Nunakerem Center. Must be
KU has added a 9200 Xerox machine in 3018 Learned Hall. The new copying service is priced the same as that in Wescow.
TODAY: THE GERMAN CLUB will meet from 3:30 to 5 in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
"I think our business community has wanted to do something for Haskell students in the past," Galluzi said, "but it didn't know what it could do."
Announcements . . .
Virginia C. Gathercole, Lawrence graduate student, is the recipient of the first annual Linguistics Honors Award given by the KU department of linguistics.
The unemployment rate for Douglas County in February was 5.1 per cent, he said, and in May it will be affected by the several thousand students looking for jobs.
Grants and Awards...
Norman said he hoped to conduct what he called a "radiation" on Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka radio stations to inform the public of SEI and to ransle funds.
For SEI funding, Norman said, he has requested tax-deductible contributions from individuals, and is researching the possibility of aid from local, state and federal communities. He said he hoped the local business community could respond to the job demand.
NORMAN SAID he had gotten previous experience with community projects when he started a recreation park in Kansas City. He didn't have nowhere to play but in the streets.
Events ...
brotherhood had a large part in the founding of this country.
"What would be more American than doing something for the Indians?" Norman
Wallace Galluzi, president of Haskell,
said, "Any program that gets jobs for our
workers."
"A co-effort by two schools to make art
The benefits the Army offers potential recruits are two parts: volunteer Army's resources and its image.
impact on the community shouldn't go unnoticed," he said.
Revue immediately after the previous one. She said that, for example, last year one fraternity asked several sororities by telephone to be its partner in Rock Gala. She said that it took one of the sororites, but didn't tell the other sororites of its decision.
Revue immediately after the previous one.
Rock Chalk . . .
He said the new process would require Greek houses to be more honest, even though the process might seem complicated.
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Pflasterer said that she thought fraternities and sororites would still call each other to ask to be considered a partner, but he insisted they would be final until they were officially paired.
But when the Panhellenic and IFC officers were elected, Schaefer said, they were 'told in detail about the decision. He took KU-Y was told much about it either.
"WE HAD TO work a lot smarter," he said. "It's no secret that all of the people were smart."
Pat Scalfeer, IFC president, said that the IFC and Panhellenic presidents councils voted in April 1978 to pair the Greek groups according to their preferences. He and Pfasterle weren't on the council at that time.
"How else will they know who wants to pair up with them?"
She said that the sororities might turn down offers from other fraternities, thinking they already had a partner when they didn't.
Turvey said, "They can call each boy to an open season until they make a plan for an open season."
Roger Campbell, 1976 Rock Chalk Revue manager, said. "It's really no Palsie (Sasha) for me."
He said KU-Y should pair the groups because nonGreek groups might think that the Rock Chalk Revue was only for sororities and fraternities.
"IFC and Panhellenic were working in the better interests of the Greeks and did not want to be involved."
Women also are part of the changing image to the Army. Women represent $5 a month in salaries.
appreciate what they tried to do," Campbell said.
"But this system (KU-Y's) should make the equation more equitable for all groups," he said.
The jobs available to women in the Army, Utter said, are limited.
Kathy Hannah, assistant Rock Chalk Revue producer, said, "Since KU-Y is in charge of the whole thing anyway, then all the problems should go to them in the first
"Women did not count for our (Volunteer Army recruiting) objective," he said. "We're not actively seeking women. They can fill their quotas by walking in."
Phyllis Robertson, Panhellenic membership program chairman, said that the sororites and fraternities were used to their war problems to IPC and Panhellenic.
Schafer said that all the sororites and fraternities had already voted to have IFC and Panbellenic pair them and bad inexperienced students whether they would enter Rock Chalk.
THE ARMY is currently feeling the first effects of women entering traditionally all-male domains, such as West Point Military Academy.
He said that the houses would have to vote again about whether to have KU-Y match them, but that IFC and Panhellenic would endorse the process.
Pflasterer said she thought the houses' only concern might be whether their preference lists would be kept confidential.
If there is a conflict in the bidding system, the sororites will have preference in event-numbered years and fraternities will have preference in odd-numbered years.
Burchill said that because the new process was on paper, the former phone-call problems would be eliminated, "unless some raspical fraternity or sorority says to more than one other group that they are your first member on their preference list," she said.
She said that groups wouldn't be left without a partner, but the put several choices.
Burchell said that the lists would be confident and that Campbell, John Schwartz, Rock Chalk Revue producer, and Jan KUY Board member, would do the duing.
"They're going lots of places, including 'my old alma hear', which is going to be a fun place."
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