University Daily Kansan, July 6, 1981
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Enos leaves ROTC for tank
By DAVE MCQUEEN Staff Reporter
Like many, college students in the early '70s, Gary Eone didn't want to be drafted to fight in Vietnam. But unlike many students of that time, he didn't march in anti-war demonstrations or flee to Canada.
Instead, he joined his school's Army ROTC program.
"It was apparent I was going into the military one way or the other," Enos said. "If that was the case, I figured I'd rather go in as an officer."
When Capt. Gary Enos graduated from San Jose State University in California, he was at the top of his ROTC class. Now, nine years later, he has been the Army's top ROTC instructor.
ON APRIL 30, Enos was named the recipient of the Col. Leo A. Codd Award, given annually by the American Defense Preparedness Association to the nation's top Army ROTC instructor.
The APDA, an international organization dedicated to national security through industrial peacemaking, was the award to Enos in Washington, D.C.
Although he has enjoyed working in the ROTC program here, Enos will be leaving the University of Kansas in August for Lima, Ohio, where he will work as a government liaison with Chrysler Corporation on the development of the new SUV. And back he had the option of staying here for another 36-month tour of duty, but it would have been disadvantageous to his career, he said.
"You're always getting challenges and changes in the Army," Ensas said. This is probably the hottest project the military has ever undertaken, but priviled to work on the M-3 tank.
ALTHOUGH IT wasn't his first career choice, Enos he decided that army life was for him after he left San Jose State for his first assignment in West Germany. During the five years he spent there, he saw a lot of Europe, did some skiing and earned his master's degree.
"The military was real good to me and everything looked real positive," Enos said.
When he came back from overseas, Enos said he requested an assignment in ROTC. The Army gave him three universities to choose from, one of which was the University of Kansas. He chose KU because he had passed
through Lawrence on his way home from Europe and found the community to his liking.
"So I said I'd take KU and the Jayhawks," he said.
WHEN ENOS CAME to KU in August 1978, he decided the first thing he needed to do was to publicize KU's ROTC program.
"At first, I elected to go into promotion and advertising work because we had to show people what we had to offer," he said.
In the process, Enos devised several promotional methods, including a multimedia advertising campaign geared toward KU students and an advertising program and information packet for high school students.
But the project that excited Enos most was the organization of Kansas Corps of Cadets, a student organization, the unit of which was promoting Army ROTC.
These efforts, according to Enos, have made KU's Army ROTC program one of the best in the Midwest. An example of this, he said, is the number of KU students who receive recognition from the training camp. Of the 2,900 students training camp year, one KU student was in the top 20, and four of five others were in the top 150, he said. Also, the rifle team is ranked tenth nationally.
"Once you have something that organized, then they can assist you in promoting your program," he said.
ENOS BELIEVES this kind of recognition is not only good for his program but brings credit to the entire university.
"I think it depicts the quality of students we are receiving not only in ROTC, but at KU as a whole," he said.
Even if a student isn't planning on a military career, ROTC can still be a valuable experience. Eones said.
"I think it's a very valuable experience because it gives them an opportunity to develop responsibility, leadership and management skills that I feel a lot of people don't develop until later on in life," he said.
But the most valuable lesson learned in ROTC, Enos said, is the ability to lead and work with other people.
"If you manage human 'resources well, the potential is unlimited,' Enos said. "If you can develop these skills in your shoulders above your contouraries."
WHILE HE IS looking forward to his new assignment, Enos admitted that he would miss working with students.
"What I think I'll really miss are the students I've come in contact with," he said. "I think it's been a reawarding assignment, to see young men and women coming in unsure of themselves and develop in three or four years."
Student Senate auctions items
Going once . . . going twice . . . sold,
to the highest bidder.
By JILL M. YATES Staff Reporter
Unclaimed clothing, a mail box, a fence post, an American flag and 15 bicycles are just some of the lost and found items up for bid today at an auction sponsored by the Student David VanParys, treasurer, said.
Such items, which have remained for more than a year at the KU Police Department's lost and found, and by law cannot be disposed of by them, have been transferred to the Senate for the auction, VanPavys said.
Anyone can view the various items on display in the third floor hallways of the Kansas Union, and start placing bids at the offices. Mr. Abbott, Student Senate vice president.
Bids will be received at the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union until 3 p.m.
ALL OF THE ITEMS were found on campus, either lost or abandoned, he said.
"Many of the bikes are in fairly good condition and some are not," VanParys said.
The proceeds will possibly go to the Red Cross or another charity in Lawrence, but a decision regarding whether he has not yet been made, Abbett said.
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THEY HAD BETTER if you are going to enjoy Mel Brooks' new film, "The History of the World, Part I." They are, endlessly repeated, the only four jokes in the film. Evidently they're enough for some people. For example, one of Brooks' most well-known thing, and on that basis, "History of the World" is a very sad film indeed.
If, in the early 70s, someone had asked, "If Mel Broelars and Woody Allen were to cease being funny, how would they have become that Allen would become more like Ingar Bergman and that Brooks would do more belch jokes. "History of the World" would be kinder to "Stardust Memories."
It's a four-part film, set primarily in prehistoric times, ancient Rome, Spain under the Inquisition and France during the Revolution. It's not, as you might think, a sort of parody of Griffith's "Intolerance." It's just four separate settings for incredibly tired jokes about
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IT'S A BIG MUSICAL production number in the Busby Berkeley style—and the cleverness and skill with which it is executed only intensely its ugleness. It is obviously one of the most famous "Springtime for Hiller" number in Brooks' "The Producer's," his first film. The satirical object of "Springtime for Hitler" was that there were people who could make entertainment out of anything, even genocide. The "Hiller" model can make entertainment out of anything, even torture.
Do you find the coarser bodily functions uproarous? Does the sight of a large-breasted woman dissolve you in laughter? Can you think of nothing funnier than that four-letter term for excrement? Do puns and historical anachronisms strike you as the height of wit?
How did Brooks fall so far? His timing is gone, his direction buries previously fine performers and encourages perennially unfungy ones. There's an undercurrent of desperation and even hostility here. Brooks is so afraid he won't be funny that he falls back on stupidity and dissipates the laughter with his own anxiety.
That's most obvious in his own performance. Initially, Brooks used himself sparingly, knowing he was too brash for sustained appearance—scattered bits in "The Voice" and "Blazing Saddles" and "Blazing Blaudes"—absent entirely from "Young Frankenstein."
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A LOT OF PEOPLE found the film worthy of gales of guffawing laughter. I wonder why they don't crack up every time they pass a girl in their path. I enter a restroom. I recall laughing twice in a row only once, and wining a lot, for the Mel Brooks that was and might have been. He even steals Cheech and Chong pot jokes (although Brooks'抖 humor is noticably more amusing than anything those two leftovers ever had). He's also been as unthinkable as Charlie Chaplin stealing from Jerry Lewis.
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