Army ROTC cadets during morning patrol
Four Army ROTC cadets are caught in action during their first field exercise of the semester. A total of 35 ROTC cadets participated in the drill which took place at Sunflower ammunition plant. The purpose of the drill was to prepare the cadets for a summer camp at Ft. Riley.
Army ROTC cadets in field drill action
About 35 members of Army ROTC at the University of Kansas participated in the first field exercise of the semester.
The exercise, which took place at the Sunflower amunition plant about 10 miles east of Lawrence, was held in conjunction with the leadership lab of Military Science 3, although no academic credit was given for it.
The purpose of the drill was to prepare the cadets for a summer ROTC camp at Ft. Riley by rotating as many cadets as possible through command positions.
The exercise was designed and organized by cadet Capt. John Anderson, DeSoto senior. The process involved spending several hours on several different occasions at the exercise area, making maps of the area and devising various missions for the cadets.
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The cadets had been divided into four squads and were ordered to proceed in four different directions on simulated reconnaissance patrols. Along the path of each of these patrols, senior members of Pershing Rifles, an honorary ROTC organization, had been stationed to act as aggressors.
Later that afternoon, the four squads were formed into two units for a new exercise with the cadets acting as hunters and the Pershing Rifles acting as the victims.
The cadets were graded on the way they set up their position and also critiqued on their procedure of taking prisoners such as disarming and searching them.
Drainage basin environment study site
The Yankee Tank Creek drainage basin west of Lawrence has become a giant laboratory for scientists and ecologists from the University of Kansas during the last two years. The area has become the site for intensive environmental studies prior to further development of the city of Lawrence.
Paul L. Hilman, who is a geologist with the Kansas Geological Survey and oversees the project, said the project would be aimed at taking a pre-development inventory of animals, vegetation, water conditions and geological structures. This data will be compared with data from later studies, to be conducted after urbanization of the basin has taken place, to detect any changes occurring in the environment.
The idea of using a large plot of land such as the Yankee Tank basin, he said, is to set up a natural laboratory so that all the information about environmental change can be used as data applicable to similar drainage basins throughout eastern Kansas. He said this would give researchers and construction planners usable developmental guidelines for the future urbanization.
Frank B. Cross, professor of sytems and ecology at KU and director of the State Biological Survey, has been carrying out ecological research studies in the Yankee Tank area as part of the overall project.
The information, Hilpman said, can be used by planners who have no previous knowledge of the environmental situation to determine means of protecting the balance of nature.
Cross said his work involved research in animal environment and animal populations. He obtains ecological information on selected different kinds of animals so that local conditions and the
requirements of the animals can be observed to see how they influence the environment.
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Cross said in a habitat where a number of species of animals lived, some of them began to change slightly with an environment change. Later, a larger, more noticeable, change occurs.
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Cross said the smaller, more subtle change was the more important to observe, since it could reveal the reason for the change.
By learning the reason for the subtle change, he said, a farmer, landowner or planner could channel development around it to prevent the animal from dying out or moving on to another location.
Working on another aspect of the environmental research at Yankee Tank is Roger L. Kaesler, associate professor of geology at KU.
Kaesler said his work involved studying small crustaceans, called ostracodes, present in farm pond water. He said by studying these semi-microscopic animals he hoped to be able to determine what changes in the chemical composition of the water have been made over a peroid of time.
Hilman said that through Kaesler's work the proper correction for cleaning up the water could be made.
In a third area of the study, Robert Hoffman, professor of systems and ecology, is working on studies of the small mammal population in the area.
Hoffman and his researchers use a sample area and catch animals in live traps, mark them, and then free them. Later, the animals are recaptured in kill-traps and an assessment of the numbers of the animals is taken.
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