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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 21, 1968
Two-Year ROTC
Hope For Grads
Romney Wants Draft Laws
To Rely Mainly On Enlistees
By ARTHUR L. SRB
Associated Press Writer
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. <A>)_Gov.
George Romney said Tuesday that
draft laws should be changed “to
rely extensively on volunteers.”
The Michigan Republican, wind
ing up a two-day Wisconsin sweep
Military Academy
Will Go Co-Ed
At a news conference, and
again in a statement, Romney
said that new regulations which
would end deferments for first-
year graduate students and for
occupational and skilled cate
gories are “not a move in the
direction of a more equitable
system.”
SEWANEE, Tenn. <A>)_When
you admit girls to a military
academy, what does it do for the
cadets? It boosts morale, that’s
what it does.
This is how cadets reacted at
Sewanee Military Academy, a
century-old prep school, to the an
nouncement about 50 girls will
be admitted next fall. The cur
rent crop includes 251 lonely
young males, in virtual isolation
atop this mountain educational
center about 50 miles from
“This is a move away from two
desirable goals,” Romney said.
“Reversing the order of the draft
calls to start with younger men,
and providing greater uniform
ity in the standards used for de
termining deferments.”
Dr. Edward N. McCrady, vice
chancellor of the University of
the South, said Monday the board
of regents will allow daughters
of faculty and staff at the Epis
copal educational complex to at
tend the academy as day students.
At a Rice Lake stop, as he con
centrated on the northwestern
section of the state before return
ing to the New Hampshire cam
paign, Romney said he had sent
telegrams to several senators urg
ing that they support cloture in
the civil rights debate in the
Senate.
The move lost Tuesday after
noon when it failed, by nine votes,
to muster the two-thirds major
ity required to shut off debate.
Just how the girls will be
worked into the program at SMA,
where military life is emphasized
strongly, is still a question.
“It’s pretty obvious the girls
won’t be in the marching corps.”
“It is important to do all pos
sible to demonstrate to those still
suffering from social and racial
injustices,” the governor said,
“that needed changes can be made
without lawlessness, violence and
civil guerilla warfare.”
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
The positive student who is seeking a broader and more
advanced education through graduate work and the nega
tive student who is after his master's to avoid the real world
are both in for problems beginning July 1.
It’s then that a new Selective Service law, designed to
draw older men into the service before younger ones, will
go into effect. Such _a system will allow few deferments
for graduate study.
And A&M, with its high percentage of male enroll
ment will be hit hard. The forecast for 6,000 graduate
students by 1976 with its attendant courses, professors, and
facilities will need to be revised—downward.
Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall said a survey completed
by his office indicates a possible 40 per cent reduction in
the number of students beginning graduate work next fall.
Extended study in what the government feels are
essential fields—medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medi
cine—will not be affected.
Dean Hall noted that if master’s and Ph.D. students
are drafted in large numbers, graduate programs will be
disrupted for several years to come.
With A&M already heavily invested in research and
graduate facilities, the new draft decision and potential
cutback in enrollment could have a temporarily detrimental
effect.
It is almost a certainty that the graduate college will
be hurt for at least this year’s fall semester. Time is of the
essence for applying for graduate financial help and in de
ciding whether or not to apply at all.
If a 24-year-old science major thought he was going
to be drafted after enrolling, chances are he would not
enroll at all. And if men are called up on as short a notice
as the 14,000 reservists were recently, many married grad
uate students would be in trouble.
But although the graduate program here may be hurt,
the prospect may be brighter again by 1970.
For the new law has sparked interest in ROTC again,
and instead of the Corps dying a slow death, it may grow
larger than ever.
According to Air Force ROTC officials, the two-year
program, which is open to undergraduate and graduate stu
dents, provides the graduating senior with time for his
studies if he wants to get a master’s degree before he
enters the military.
A student satisfactorily passing officer qualifying
tests, physical examinations and completing a six-week sum
mer camp would be considered for the advanced program
and the promise of completed military service and graduate
deferment.
The need for additional troops has forced new draft
laws which will select from the oldest men first. Perhaps
it is unwise if this nation wishes to maintain a high degree
of brain power, and perhaps it is correct if open slots are
not to be filled by undergraduate students who have limited
brainpower at all.
The two-year ROTC program is economically feasible
for the services, and more attractive to students who wish
to avoid the disciplined freshman and sophomore years in
the Corps.
For those who have been avoiding their military obli
gation like the plague and who have crept up on their 25th
birhday hoping the worst chance of draft was behind, the
twq-year 'program may provide both a chance for leader
ship and further graduate study. (P.S.—Deadline for appli
cation is Feb. 26) ;
At The Movies
by Mike Plata
The “Golden Breed” is brass-
plated.
Beautiful photography of a tall,
slender, bikinnied beauty against
an exotic sunset gives it a great
beginning. But as the golden sun
seeps into the waters and the girl
fades into credits, the movie re
gresses.
You begin by observing beauti
ful scenes of tropical lagoons,
covered with night and filled with
white-decked sailing sloops. You
wait, in eager anticipation, for
you sense that this will be no or
dinary celluloid. This will be a
record of the majesty of the sea,
of man’s attempt to grapple with
her using a surfboard.
YOU WAIT, anxiously, for the
main character to appear, for the
film to crystallize.
You wait, and wait, and wait.
The only thing that ever hap
pens is that the end finally comes.
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Sports Car Club
Set To Sponsor
Driver’s School
“The Golden Breed” supposedly
symbolizes the search of every
true surfer for his “perfect wave.”
He seeks it in Hawaii, Mexico,
California, and other places with
less pronounceable names. He
seeks his “perfect ride” on the
Banzai,” a gigantic twenty-foot
wave in Hawaii, and when the
surf is down, while riding a mot
or cycle cross-country in the Cali
fornia desert.
It seems at least twenty surfers
are featured as main characters
in this film. This is poor, as half
of their names can not be pro
nounced and most of them look
the same wiping out on a surf
board, anyway.
ASIDE from the beginning, the
best part of this film is about
two minutes worth of a beach
front in Hawaii. Here the scenery
is not only water, but girls and
water.
Comic relief from continual
wipeouts comes in various ways.
In one segment, two two-hundred
pound women come belly-surfing
across the screen on an anguish
ing air matress. In another, child
ren ag'ing from four to tweki
skateboard downhill and hat;
five, ten, and so on. Still anothc
finds our golden breed of suritfi
sliding down the wet concrete sit
of a dam, ripping their swiit
trunks and hindmost parts alltl.
while.
The narrator, producer, diret
tor, filmer, and person respoi.
sible for this mistake is Dai;
Davis. By the end of the movi*
you would think he was finantg
by the State of Hawaii Chamkti
of Commerce.
“The Golden Breed,” in shon
is too long. Its cast is too mmt : .
ous, in addition to the regrettafe
fact that each one is quickly *
viewed on his surfing techni^
during the remaining minutes.!;,
dialogue is too trite.
IF EDITED correctly, it wo,,
make a good fifteen-minute ho;,
movie. As is, it will be greatfe
television. Maybe after that,vtit;
those royalties and other finau.
ing by more Chamber of Cou
merce people, Mr. Davis will pro
duce “Golden Breed” no. 2.
I hope not.
“Okay, get a timing on how long it takes a K. K. to get up
here after I turn this light on!”
Intern Program
Set For Texas
aimed at the state’s April 2 presi
dential primary, interrupted his
steady fire at President Johnson’s
ietnam war policy to criticize re
cent changes in selective service.
AUSTIN—Colin J. Carl, Ad-
minstrative Program Director of
the Texas Legislative Internship
Program, today announced that
March 1, 1968, is the deadline
for the submission of applications
for the 1968-1969 program. Initi
ated in 1964 by a Ford Foundation
grant, this project is partially
financed by State funds.
The basic objectives of the
program are to
(1) give qualified persons the
opportunity to gain practical ex
perience in the legislative pro
cess;
(2) provide the legislature with
talented service and research per
sonnel;
(3) interest capable individuals
in careers of public service;
(4) stimulate research and im
prove teaching about the legis
lative process; and
(5) facilitate communication
between the academic community
and the legislature.
Participation in the program
is open to any person interested
in the legislative process who,
not later than Steptember 1, 1968,
has
(1) completed not less than one
year of graduate study in govern
ment, history, sociology, econom
ics, public finance, journalism,
or a related discipline;
(2) completed not less than one
year of law school; or
(3) obtained equivalent work
experience.
Persons selected as interns will
be appointed for nine months of
full-time work, from September 1,
1968, through May 31, 1969, and
will be paid $500.00 a month.
Before the Regular Session of
the 61st Legislature convenes in
January 1969, the interns will
(1) meet informally with legis
lators, staff members of legisla
tive service agencies and execu
tive departments, lobbyists, mem
bers of the press, and other
Ruby Trial Judge
Dies Of Coronary
DALLAS (A*) — Dist. Judge Joe
Brown, who presided over the
tempestuous trial of Jack Ruby
in 1964, died Tuesday following
a heart attack.
A spokesman at Baylor Hos
pital said Brown died at 6:10 p.m.
He had been stricken early in the
day.
Brown, 60, was elected a dis
trict judge in 1957. He became a
justice of the peace in 1934.
The judge, a colorful man in
Dallas legal circles, was married
last year to Joy Carles, a widow.
He and his first wife were di
vorced.
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A sports car drivers school
will be sponsored by the new
Texas A&M Sports Car Club Sun
day morning at the Texas A&M
Research Annex.
George Eby, club spokesman,
said the school begins at 10 a.m.
and will emphasize safety tech
niques for timed races.
Topics covered in the course
include proper braking and accel
erating techniques, drifting, sla
lom running and emergency pro
cedures for spinouts.
“Completion of a driving school
of this type will widen a person’s
appreciation of his sports car
and provide him with new tools
to avoid highway accidents,” Eby
noted.
Fees for the school are $1 for
club members and $4 for non
members.
The Texas A&M Sports Car
Club was organized earlier this
month.
The Texas A&M Research An
nex (old Bryan Air Force Base)
is located seven miles west of
Bryan on Highway 21.
Bison numbered 60 million in
North AmeTica before hunters
nearly exterminated them in the
1800s. Under protection, bison
beards have now increased to
23,000 animals.
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