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University Daily Kansan, July 16; 1981
ROTC a financial alternative, says KU prof
By JOE BIRNEY
Staff Reporter
An increase in Reserve Officers Training Corps enrollment will not occur until more students look toward the military as an alternative form of financial assistance, University of Kansas ROTC officials said recently.
Navy Cmdr. William K. Flynn, associate professor of naval science, said he does not think students look at ROTC as a way of getting assistance from school, but as a career in a selected field that many find unattractive.
"I DON'T THINK most students look at what is offered," Flynn said.
Army Capt. James Cloning, assistant professor of military science, said he expected an enrollment in school but not because students have to other institutions. Students wanted to use ROTC as a means of staying in school, they would have to wait a year before they are accepted, he said.
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The enrollment in ROTC around the country has increased in recent years at a rate of 10 percent a year since 1979. The program has about 100,000 students nationwide.
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The ROTC programs at KU are offered by the Navy, Air Force and Army. The government offers full tuition scholarships for four years as a summer or summer work with pay, and $10 a month during the final two years of college.
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Smallley said the Navy pays 100 percent of the college cost of a person that is currently on active duty.
benefits that can bring financial advantages over civilian life.
THERE ARE MORE than 400 Army ROTC units on college campuses, with another 100 schools waiting to be included. Students from other schools are allowed to attend neighboring schools with ROTC programs.
Cloninger said the KU ARMY ROTC unit had about 300 students, and they could expand to 350 to 400.
Scholarships are not awarded by a particular university but on a nation-wide basis, Cloninger said. Those who are accepted for a scholarship can apply it to any school with an Army ROTC program, he said.
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials will decide tomorrow or Monday whether to grant Gov. John Carlin's request for disaster aid to Lawrence and Great Bend, a federal spokesman said yesterday.
with the other service ROTC programs,
can only administer the scholarships.
Last year, KU Army ROTC awarded
only one full four-year scholarship,
Cloninger said. The other scholarships
were two-and three-year awards.
Cloninger said that 50,000 scholarships were awarded nationwide, and that the KU Army ROTC unit, along
scholarships," Cloninger said, although he expects to receive a pay raise in October.
The President's commitment to a powerful Navy may soon benefit the Navy at every level, as it will take more than $10 billion for an increased number of ships, Flynn said.
Cond. Flynn said that when students begin to realize the pinch of the proposed federal budget cuts, they will learn alternative methods of going to college.
Relief aid possible
Congress may also increase the number of scholarships available as well as increasing the money students are paid each month, he said.
Spokesman David Cobb said the team of federal inspectors would report their damage appraisals in Washington, D.C. today after viewing tornado Lawrence on Monday and flood damage in Great Bend on Tuesday.
Cmdr. Flynn said that the Navy awarded 25 four-year scholarships to students enrolled in NROTC at KU. The reason they have more than the Army program is because there are only 54 college campuses with NROTC, he said, and the scholarships are not as widely dispersed as the Army's.
The Reagan administration's $2.52 billion increase for defense spending in fiscal 1981 and 1982 may not increase Army ROTC programs.
"Personnel is necessary if the Navy is to be expanded," Flynn said, "if the plans go through Congress as expected."
Although the ROTC programs have yet to feel much effect of the budget cuts to students, the naval recruiter in Lawrence, Petty Officer Warren
"WE DON'T ANTICIPATE an increase at all in authorization of
COL. MAHLON WEED, director of the State Division of Emergency Preparedness, said he was optimistic about the chances of federal aid being granted after reconsideration of Carlin's original request.
Weed, who traveled with the federal inspectors in Kansas, said that damage in both Lawrence and Great Bend was due to sewage from a report reported in his original request for aid.
"Military service is more and more seen as a viable career opportunity and as a financial assistance opportunity becomes more evident, I imagine there will be an increase in enrolment, but not directly," he said.
Original estimates of last month's damage were $18 million or Lawrence
Carlin's request for low-interest Small Business Administration loans is still pending.
Weed said, "I'm sure the SBA will not make an announcement of their plans and after the Federal Emergency Management Agency makes their announcement."
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