University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 4, 1972
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Upheaval Wounded ROTC
By TOM THRONE
Kansan Staff Writer
The expression of discontent by students across the country about the Vietnam war has lead to a call for more students in ROTC, Colonel Ray Lancaster, former professor of Aerospace studies, said Monday. He is leading Force last Wednesday after 30 years. He spent the last three and a half months in college.
"Radical elements on campus in '68, '69 and '70 were a major
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part in influencing the decrease," he said.
He said, however, that quietness on college campuses would eventually lead to an increase in strength and position of ROTC.
The increasing number of ROTC scholarships plus a tuition fee will be available for scholarship cadets and two-year cadets, will provide incentives
LANCASTER SAID he found his assignment at KU very rewarding.
"I have met some very fine young people. I have seen a great many of them draw their careers from jobs in the Air Force," he said.
"During the period of upheaval, 1968, '69 and '70, it was
a very frustrating assignment," he said.
ROTC commanders think that the trouble will end and better just happen. They said things would settle down and that's just what they
"We worked closely with the administration to do what we could to help satisfy the academic side of ROTC to make it more compatible with the atmosphere on campus, Lancaster said.
LANCASTER WAS a student at the University of Texas, majoring in petroleum geology when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
"I was in my senior year when Pearl Harbor came along," she said. "I worked at Harbor on January 19, 1942, two friends and myself went down to an Army Air Force Corps van on the first flight of a plane. We signed up but we asked to be allowed to finish our senior year. We got our notices report on."
Because Lancaster enjoyed flying and military, he applied for a regular commission when given the chance.
He said he was allowed to finish his degree in 1952 at the University of Maryland.
Lancaster said he thought there would be a problem with volunteer services.
"Even though there have been good pay offs, the time the younger people just isn't that nice because of the attitude of a lot of the younger people over the older."
IT WILL TAKE a few years before they are able to get a volunteer service, he said.
"I hope they get enough volunteers to fill the requirements, and I think they'll be ready to help on the draft," she said.
Laneaster's honors include the Legion of Merit with oak cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak cluster and the Army and Air Force Command Medals. He also served in the Service Medal for his work as a member.
Lancaster flew fighter planes in World War II and the Korean war. He served as an air adviser in Vietnam in 1962.
"We went from the planes that were really fun to fly to the fast
According to Sheryl Condra, president of the Schwierig school, she said that the cause caused by the large numbers of children attending Schwierg from the traiter court on 28rd St. to the neighborhood together, she said, so the new boundaries will allow them to continue attending School.
Rosemarie Downing, whose child will be effected, said that she thought the new boundaries were a good idea.
"It's a long walk and
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Seventeen groups, ranging from a solo to an assemblage of 24 students, have entered the Spring Sing contest. Cathy Brown, Wichita junior and co-leader of the Sing, said Monday.
Each group will perform two numbers, not to exceed a total of ten minutes. One selection will be larger, the other will be slower, Brown said.
The Sing will begin at 1 p. m.
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the Spring Sing committee said. The Spring Sing committee has allowed three to five minutes between entrees for changing
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Lancaster said he thought the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were being hard-nosed and ruthless, and they were prisoners of war until America
superiors push button-type flying. I found the first type more interesting, having one hand on the wheel and another on the throne, he said.
dangerous from here, to Schwegler," she said. Children from Soufler place must walk across the road on cross traffic at 19th St. With the new boundary arrangement she had to walk Hillcrest and be much safer. Downing said that she had no negative comments about the school.
Condra said that the third grade was the last large class suffering from overcrowding. The fourth decline in the number of children attending all three grade schools, and to the decrease in birth rates.
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A proposal to change the boundaries of three Lawrence grade schools, which calls for the replacement of the Stoffler Place to Hillcrest grade school, was approved last night by members of the Lawrence community. The action was passed uncontested by residents of Stoffler Place.
Both committees will be determining at what levels women and minorities are employed, what the opportunities promotion are, and how to statistical records on these factors.
Rankin said his committee would be concerned with determining the existing number of women and minorities implanted, as well as how to keep future records on this information.
Some University administrators have already begun to determine the number of nonnatives employed in their division.
The KU affirmative Action Institute has formed two subcommittees in the process of gathering information concerning the number of women who are black or Native American.
According to Taylor, the junior highs were built with the capacity to accommodate the large number of students attending them in the future. He said that it would be a long time before the high schools would be affected by the large number of children in the grade schools now.
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"I think President Nixon has done so much to show that we are moving out of Vietnam," he said, referring to the war in Iraq and to cooperate more. I hope it doesn't take that long to get our way, his back. But it looks like it will.
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Rankin said he was not sure when all data would be collected, but hoped that it could be done within the next month.
The Affirmative Action Board will need this data in order to determine an affirmative action program for the University, he said.
The boundary change, which will effect approximately 20 children from Hillcrest, Schwinger and Centennial grade schools in a district director of elementary education, is an effort to relieve overcrowding in the Schwenger school. The other two schools, he would say, could handle the added numbers caused by the boundary change.
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