Tuesday, September 18, 1979
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ROTC regains popularity at KU
By KATE POUND
Staff Reporter
More is still less in the University of Kansas ROTC programs, which, despite having more students enrolled than ever, are not as many as the programs of two other Schools' schools.
Both Pittsburgh State University and Wichita State University have Reserve Officer Training Corps enrollments larger than KU's.
The KU ROTC enrollment has more than doubled since 1969, officials for the program said recently.
Despite the increase, a survey of the Big Eight schools and KU's peer institutions showed that KU ROTC enrollment was almost equal to seven of the ten schools surveyed.
With 342 students in the Army, Navy and Air Force HOC programs, KU falls behind University of Missouri, the University of North Carolina, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and UHC officials in those schools said recently.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Iowa, the University of Oregon and KState are the only Big Eight, or peer schools, with fewer students in RCOT than KU.
ROTC programs train officers for active and reserve military duty. The purpose of the ROCT is to provide the country and provide about 70 percent of the military's officers, commanders of the KU
All of the KU detachments have shown some growth in the last few years, the commanders said, but the largest growth came from the early 1970s, the program has grown from 74
students to 190 this year, lt. Col. Edward Eldison, professor of military science, said
THE GROWTH in the Army's ROTO program was part of a national trend, Moss Kaiser, public information officer here, said. The army's regional headquarters at Fort Riley, said.
The Army program has grown from $2,000 students nationwide in 1976 to an estimated 60,000 this year, Kessinger said.
Air Force ROTC programs also have headquarters in Hawaii and headquarters at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, said. Since 1976, the program's enrollment has increased from 16,500 to 24,000.
The Navy's program enrollment has stayed between 8,500 and 9,000 students, a spokesman at its headquarters in Pensacola, Fla., said. The Navy offers fewer training do the Air Force and the Army, the spokesman said, so its program has not grown.
VARIOUS FACTORS account for the growth in the Army and Air Force programs.
Military training and career opportunities attracted some students, Col. Jake Gentry, professor of aerospace studies and coordinator of the KU Air Force detachment, said.
"What we are doing is providing another option for a career," Gentry said.
The diminishing of anti-war sentiments, which developed on college campuses during the Vietnam war, has contributed to increased ROTE enrollment. Edson said
ROTC enrollments nationwide reached their lowest levels from 1969 to 1976 because of animosity created by the war, he said.
"We were the only military presence on the campuses," he said. "People turned to the ROTC programs as scapegoats.
"OUR FRESHMEN now were about eight years old at the height of the anti-war movement. They really weren't aware of it."
Col. C.P. Rowlands, professor of naval science and commander of the Navy ROTC program, said the attitude on campus during ROTC had improved in recent years.
"There's more of a live and let live attitude," Rowlands said. "We're accepted like other programs, fraternities and athletic teams."
All three commanders agreed that ROTC scholarships, which can pay for all of a student's college costs for four years, were the incentives for enrolling in the program.
The scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis for two, three or four years.
MOST AIR FORCE and Navy scholarships are awarded to students in engineering or the physical sciences, Gentry and Rowlands said.
Army scholarships are awarded to students who qualify for them, no matter what their major is, Eldison said, because the Army needs officers trained in almost all fields.
Both military branches need officers trained in those fields because they use highly technical equipment.
Several campus ROTC students said the scholarships were not the only benefits of the ROTC program.
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Annie Wiechert, Atwater, Caitl, junior, and she the Air Force TOC recipient. The recipient in Air Force ROTC scholarship, Wiechert may have not enrolled in the program even if she had.
The Vietnamese Vets Against the War no longer supports the National organization supports a voluntary officer training program, Kerri Monmier, Topea senior and president of the Lawrence Anti-War League.
The Campus Veterans, a group that provides support and about government programs, encourage members to investigate the ROTC programs, Mike Hide, Campus Veterans
"Any veteran who doesn't at least look at the benefits of the ROTC programs isn't very smart," Hand said.
Groups that were active in anti-war movements ten years ago, such as the Vietnam Veset Against the War and anti-nuclear weapons protest the presence of ROTC on campus.
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Wiechert said she saw very little animosity on campus toward the military. There is less animosity now than there might have been a few years ago, she said.
Issuing industrial revenue bonds is a method sites use to encourage business expansion. The bond allows a firm to obtain less expensive financing, including a 10-year property loan.
Commission to consider bonds for nursing home
Medicaldolges, Inc. owns or operates 33 nursing homes in five states. They have received bond issues in several Kansas communities.
Medicaladolesc, Inc., Coffeyville, has requested the bonds to finance the purchasing and remodeling of Wakurans a nursing home at 1800 W. 27th Street.
Issuing the bonds would be possible because of a recent revision in the city's constitution, which allows revision permits issuing bonds to firms that will provide 'public services' of a
Wakarua Manor, is owned by Union Gas Co., Independence, Kan.
A request for $1 million in industrial development at Lawrence City Commission at the regular meeting at 7 tonight on the fourth floor of the Lawrence City Bank, Tower 910 Massachusetts Street.
Representatives of Medicalodges have
The commissioners also will hear "request from Pinckney neighborhood members concerning garbage pickup in the neighborhood alley and in the neighborhood alleys. A recent commission decision to purchase sanitation trucks that would not fit in the neighborhood alley or curbade garbage pickup in the neighborhood. Residents prefer alley pickup.
In other business the commission will consider a site plan for an 84-room motel-restaurant to be located on the northwest corner of 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue. The site plan, which has the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department, was submitted by Brad Haley, of the Lawrence Construction Co., Inc.
said they would not request the exemption.
The commissioners also will hear a report from the city manager's office on hiring a consultant to investigate upgrading North Second Street.
TWO WEEKS AGO the commission authorized the city staff to determine what a consultant would have to do and costs of hiring a consultant would be.
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K. U. STUDENT SEASON FOOTBALL TICKETS ARE STILL ON SALE
At the following locations . . .
-This week in front of Wescoe an information booth will be set up for ticket sales and information. Bumper stickers, brochures,and schedules will be given away.
—K.U. Ticket Office, Allen Field House 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
—SUA Office-Kansas Union 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special ticket plans are available for selected games, for information contact the Athletic Ticket Office. 864-3141