FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Air Force Officer Warns --which all of the air force bombardiers now must pass in order to become a member of the hand picked group which will enter this Advanced Flying School or one of the other great Army Air Forces bombardier schools.
Future Bombardiers Need Math Courses
"College students who will make the best pompardiers are those who study math and lots of it," Lt. Col. William M. Garland, director of training at Uncle Sam's newest bombardier university, opening at San Angelo, Texas, this week, tells those who ask him what to study in order to realize the thrill of emptying bomb bays over Hitler's Eurone.
"As far as bombing is concerned, this is a war of mathmeticians," Col. Garland says.
But for those who consider math a grind he adds this note of hope. "You don't have to like math to be a top-flight bombardier—you merely must know how to use figures." Stumble on Arithmetic
According to Col. Garland, simple grammar school arithmetic is a major stumbling block to many aviation cadets who hope to make the grade on the tough examinations
"When a bombardier in a Flying Fortress misses a target the mission is a complete loss," the director of training says. "Under combat conditions the bombardier has less than a minute and often no more than 30 seconds in which to recalculate his data and get his bombs away at
a target that may be ten or twenty thousand feet below. Minor miscalculations multiply tragically with higher altitudes. At 10,000 feet an error in calculation of airplane speed of only ten miles an hour results in a miss of 364 feet. Bombs that miss the target don't even annoy the enemy."
Slide Rules Help
Algebra, geometry, trigonometry and physics are invaluable to a bombardier, according to Col. Garland. Of major importance also is knowing how to read aerial photos, charts and maps. Every bombardier thoroughly studies maps and charts of his target and surrounding territory before starting a mission. Often landmarks must be memorized. Slide rules and other rapid mathematical computers are used constantly.
"A quick figuring bombardier can give Hitler a headache every night."
Roanoke college, Salem, Va., recently celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary.
CAPITAL TO CAMPUS--being used instead of providing new facilities in many areas.
"The government without question considers them a wartime necessity and it is using them as they never have been used before. Moreover, it is indicating in no uncertain terms that it wants these institutions to carry on their regular training and educational programs so that we may have a supply of men who can meet the challenges of next year.
"Such a policy requires from uni-
 universities adaptability, resourcefulness, an awareness of national needs, selflessness and devotion to the national effort, and willingness to put first things first during a period of world conflict," he asserted.
"It does not want to face the fact of a lost generation of educated leadership." America's national policy at this time contemplates the maintenance of vigorous and comprehensive educational programs, not in spite of the fact that we are at war, but because the war effort and the peace effort to follow require such services as universities have to offer, Dykstra explained.
"To do this does not require the sacrifice of standards or the relinquishment of long time objectives. It means only a temporary redirection of certain activities and changing emphasis where it becomes necessary.
"Our task in general remains the same, the education of the new generation, the making of citizens, the pushing outward of the boundaries of knowledge, and the serving of our country and our generation in practical ways, which will make our national life more decent and wholesome."
ONE IN THREE TRAIN
Approximately one out of every three students at Hamilton college is taking special college work intended to prepare him for military service.
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ACP's Jay Richter Reports from Washington
Washington.—(ACP)—Interesting because of his recent official connection with the government is C. A. Dykstra's recent analysis of the official government viewpoint toward colleges.
Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin, headed the national draft machinery until appointment of General Hershey. "The government," he said in an address before the American Library association, "considers America's institutions of higher learning as key centers in the war effort." ing of fighting man
At no time in human history have universities seemed so important in a national effort as they are right now in the United States, Dykstra maintained. "Universities and colleges are reservoirs for the recruiting of fighting men, of specialists for national services, and teachers of men in training."
"Their laboratories are being used 24 hours a day and their plants in general are being made available for national service. Their facilities are
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