University Daily Kansan, March 24, 1983
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ROTC
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Members of a KU Army ROTC unit prepared for an inspection this week at the Military Science Building.
Students compete for most ROTC scholarships on the national level and the scholarships are based on merit instead of need. The scholarships are awarded to students who have received the and the recipient also receives $100 a month.
CONGRESS RECENTLY mandated that ROTC students on scholarships must make a commitment to the military after their freshman year.
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said he thought ROTC was now a good way for a student to trade off getting a college education for serving time in the military.
"Inflation has taken its toll." he said. "If a student has no intense dislike for the military, he can enhance his skills and get an education at the same time through ROTC.
CREDIT FOR CLASSES such as military leadership labs that taught cadets how to march in front of a large crowd.
Mosley said, "At the time, all the anti-war demonstrations were a thorn in the side of the administration. A movement to have ROTC removed from campus arose based on the argument that certain military science courses were not academically sound."
The ROTC program requirements were restructured and the military was not removed
Ketral said that now ROTC had as tight a set of academic requirements as any other de-
Tom Long, Overland Park sophomore, said, "I think it's revolving that they actually give credit for my success."
It is not the business of the University to be training people for war, he said.
"As far as scholarships being available to ROTC students, I think it's sickening that the government is giving away brownie points to people who become involved in the military," he said.
JACK BREMER, CAMPUS pastor and director of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said, "I would rather see our placement of resources go to programs dealing with peace and improving person-to-person relationships and values, than in training young people to use weapons, bombs and physical violence to kill people."
Mosley said that the national increase in ROTC enrollment had been caused in part by the
"In the northeastern states such as Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania where there is high unemployment, we have seen a surge in ROTC enrollment," he said.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE in Kansas is 5 percent to 6 percent as opposed to 15 to 16 percent in some areas of the country. KU has not seen a huge influx of people into ROTC because the economy is not as bad in Kansas as it is elsewhere, he said.
John Shannon, commanding officer of Navy Recruiting for the western half of Missouri and the eastern portion of Kansas, said, "In view of
the reductions that have occurred in the number of college grants and loans available, I am surprised that we have not seen a greater increase in the officer program from student to student.
HE SAID THE only increase in interest in the military that he had seen was from people in the
"In restricted economic times, many people are not able to get the job they're really looking for, so they go into the Navy to gain skills they can use to get that job later," he said.
Malcolm Wallace, Fort Dix, N.J., senior and Army ROTC cadet, he thought he would make the Army a career after he graduated because of the benefits he would receive.
"As a second lieutenant, you start out making $14,000 to $16,000 a year," he said. "You also get hospital benefits; commissary and PX privates; training and training (you are) providing for. And you're guaranteed a job."
"A lot of people who graduate with me from the School of Business will not be able to find a job. I'll be traveling and using what I learned at school to help protect the nation."
EIDSON SAID THAT the slight increase in Army ROTC enrollment had not been caused by the economy.
"We have not seen a significant increase caused by the economy." he said.
Amy said he hadn't seen a big increase in the number of people rushing to avoid not having to pay for it.
"That might come later, though," he said.
Many students are still apprehensive of making a commitment to the military.
Most ROTC cadets agree that having the opportunity to receive a scholarship from the government to pay for their college education is an incentive to joining the ROTC program.
Wallace said, "It's not a bad idea to get your college paid for and also be guaranteed a job."
TO ADDRESS A NEED by the armed services for more technically trained personnel, ROTC curricula and scholarships focus on engineering, science and math proficiency.
Because of the increased nationwide ROTC enrollment, competition for the scholarships is
Last year, 80 percent to 85 percent of the Air Force ROTC scholarships awarded nationwide went to engineering students. 10 percent to 15 percent went to students with scientific or technically oriented majors. 5 percent of the students were awarded to students with other majors.
Amy said, "Scholarship people have to take calculus and calculus-based physics because we weren't getting as many technically trained people as we needed and the Navy wanted more technically proficient officers to go to nuclear power school.
MOSLEY SAID HE COULD have given four "hip pocket" scholarships, as he calls them, last semester to freshmen or sophomores who were enrolled in college. He wrote a four-year course of military science study.
"We hold their feet to the fire and set hard burdles for them so we have a better product at the end."
"I couldn't find qualified people to use them," I said. "And few people who were eligible for them, and no one else."
If students do not receive an ROTC scholarship right after high school, the armed services offer programs to educate them further so they can later receive a scholarship.
Reagan
A special presidential commission Reagan named to find a basing system for the new MX nuclear missile is also conducting a review of overall U.S. strategic policy.
In an apparent effort to replace this system, Reagan proposed a long-term program that would employ new technology to build a network of weapons that could "intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles" before they reach the United States.
THE MULTIPLE-WARHEAD MX is an offensive weapon and a secret Pentagon document directs planning for creating a "Secure Reserve Force with enduring survivability so that the U.S. will never be without nuclear offensives, while still threat-creating large force forces.
He said until such a defensive system could become operational, current policies and weaponry would remain the backbone of the U.S. deterrent policies.
THAT POLICY LARGELY is based on the concept of flexible response, under which the United States retains options to retaliate with force from battlefield areas — from battlefield to intercontinental range.
Heart
"Up until now we have increasingly based our strategy of deterrence upon the threat of attack."
"But what if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack; that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before our allies could own our soil or that our allies" he said.
REAGAN SERVED NOTICE that the United States is not scrapping its current nuclear deterent posture until the weapon, or family of weapons, becomes a reality.
The president said that the nation would abide by current treaties and consult closely with its allies before making any dramatic policy shifts, and he had decided to take "an important first step."
The Pentagon has several anti-missile programs under way, including a weapon with a non-nuclear warhead that would intercept and destroy incoming nuclear warheads on impact.
In addition, secret Pentagon documents urge the development of weapons that can be used to wage war effectively* and a variety of laser weapons. Some have been fired in ground testing.
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To raise money to finance Whitford's operation and other medical expenses, the Lawrence chapter of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service group, has started a fund-raising campaign.
THE GROUP HAS set up a savings account at the Douglas County Bank, where people can send donations, and it hopes to raise the $10,000 by April 10 because Whitford could be called to the hospital at any time. The fund drive will continue until someone pays money to pay Whitford's medical expenses.
When a heart and lung become available, she has about four hours to get to Houston to be prepared for the operation.
Her husband's employer will use a private plane to fly her to Houston for the operation.
She said she had been told that it might be difficult to find organs as small as hers.
If a donor is found and the $10,000 has not yet been raised, Wiltford might miss her chance to attend.
THE PERSON WHO is first on the waiting list to receive the same size heart-lung transplant is
Doctor organs have to be the same size as those of the recipient and the donor and recipient must match in size.
Without the transplant, Whitford's health will continue to decline until she is confined to her bed.
"I'd rather be dead than be bedridden," she said. "I wasn't made to be sick. If there's a woman having cancer and living a healthy life on becoming invalid, I will take the chance on being healthy."
Cree Langley, office manager of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center and co-chairman of the fund drive, said college student volunteers to help with donations, and to make phone calls soliciting donations.
The fund-raising effort is to raise money for the conservation and to pay for Whitford's other mediation.
Services college fellowship group will be recruited to help with the drive, she said.
STUDENTS IN THE CENTER'S Human
Medicare has been paying $1,200 a month for the oxygen she needs, Langley said. But Medicare will not cover the heart-lung surgery because it is experimental.
But Whitford has faith that her financial problems will be taken care of.
"God has been very good to me and my family. I would much rather be able to write a check for all my medical expenses myself," she said. "But when people are being very kind to you, it's a humbling experience."
"At a university, students are in a very questioning atmosphere," she said. "I'm very questioning myself, but I have a faith that is very real.
faith in God, she was still very questioning about life.
"I've been lucky," she said, "because although my health has gotten gradually worse through the years, I've still been able to enjoy many things.
SHE SAID THAT although she had a strong
"When I was a little girl, I could ride a bicycle and not car out of doors. But then, how many of my old friends had been with me?"
Everyone should live his life as though he were going to die at any time, she said. "You never know what life will bring. We have no crystal ball."
WHITFORD AND HER husband breed Appaloosa horses. The couple lives in a big gray barn that has been converted into a comfortable home.
Pictures of horses adorn the walls, and
multi-colored ribbons that were won in horse shows are displayed with pride. But Whitford the couple had been forced to sell all but their 31 horses to help pay medical expenses.
Bob Greenlee, program director for the Knights of Columbus and chairman of the fund-raising drive, said that his organization was planning a "Music of the Bands" dance April 10 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2206 E. 23rd St., to raise money.
Several bands have donated their time to play a variety of dance music, from big band music to
MEMBERS OF THE Enunciation Catholic
church in Baldwin, will sell food, he said.
They would support the church.
Tickets to the 'Music of the Bands' dance will sell for a $5 donation.
"God works in our lives in a very real way," Whitford said. "He's made me a cause."
PARTY WITH THE J-SCHOOL
Friday at Ichabods
$3.00 All you can drink!
2-7:30
Everyone Invited
4th ANNUAL
RUGBY PARTY
SATURDAY, MARCH 26
THE FLAMINGO
501 N. 9th
8 p.m. - ?
ALL THE BEER YOU CAN DRINK
DONATIONS TAKEN
LIVE MUSIC BY BLUEWAVE
9:30 P.M.-1:30 A.M., THE MIDWEST'S
1 BEACH BAND, SO WEAR
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THE PALL OF PERMISSIVENESS
For more than a year eighteen states have required able-bodied welfare recipients—a classification which excludes elderly persons and mothers of young children—to work in public-service jobs in return for their benefits. This Reagan Administration-supported program is called "workfare" and, according to Deputy Assistant Agriculture Secretary John Bode, enables "Food stamp recipients . . . to return something to the community for the support provided". These workforce participants have served as clerks, teachers, groundkeepers, parking-meter police, cooks, carpenters, drivers, librarians, bill collectors, maintenance workers, painters, paramedics, jailers and, in one West Virginia town, police officers.
Government analysts admit that workfare participants are filling jobs that have been lost in the governmental budget crunch of recent years, yet this bothers Mr. Bode not at all. He remains silent about such instances of unequal compensation presumably because of his belief that workfare conveys "the positive message that work is important".
Does work's importance derive from a profit being made or a service being provided? As our country hasn't yet answered this question, it often rewards the sleazy while ignoring the salutary. This long-standing governmental practice has resulted in more gamblers, prostitutes, pornographers and abortionists and fewer nurses, farmers, teachers and two-parent families.
The youngest members of the populace are the ones most affected by this societal retreat from reason. An increasing number of them are choosing the response of Edgewood, Maryland's Miss Melissa Putney, Miss Putney, a fourteen-year-old who was nearly nine months pregnant, recently made the sign of the cross and deliberately knelt in front of an oncoming Amtrak train. She and her baby were just two more victims of our much-heralded pail of permissiveness. Maybe there's something fundamentally wrong with a government so absorbed with gaining tax revenues that it fails to meaningfully assist many of its most troubled dependents.
Neither workfare nor the status quo could have helped Miss Putney, Indeed, public funds have been used for years to secretly supply the adventurous with both prescription contraceptives and hasty abortions. If, in Mr. Bode's words, "work is important", surely the construction of a framework which informs, supports and directs dependent individuals and thereby prevents ill-fated pregnancies is work of the highest order that is long overdue.
William Dann 2702 W. 24th St. Terrace
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