Class of ’77 Spent Its
Life in War Environment
What’s the outlook for peace
studies and anti-war activism on
college and university campuses,
now that American involvement
has ended and an uneasy peace
reigns in Southeast Asia?
Their need would continue to
appear urgent for years to come,
though the Class of ’77 will be
the first group of 18-year olds
entering college for almost two
generations without a shooting
war going on.
Assuming that this year’s crop
of freshman was born mainly in
1955, its members have spent
their entire lives in an active
war environment.
Some disturbing insights into
their and successive college class
es’ social attitudes and influen
ces may be glimpsed in a recent
ly published study on children’s
attitudes about war (“Children
and War,” Teachers College
Press) by Howard Tolley, Jr., as
sistant professor of political sci
ence at Wilberforce University.
Analysis of his statistical
findings indicates a marked am
bivalence in children’s attitude
to war, a skepticism about gov
ernment and the president, and
greater influence in their opin
ion-forming by parental beliefs
than by the educational system,
churches, media and other forces
for ethical and social responsibil
ity.
Dr. Tolley says that childhood
socialization influences later adult
political beliefs. He also cites re
search studies with high school
students which revealed little dif
ference in attitude between fresh
men and seniors.
By the 1980’s, the generation
of school children whom Dr. Tol
ley studies will have grown up
and assumed the responsibilities
of adult citizenship. It can be in
ferred from his sampled group
that a large part of the college
and university population of this
decade requires a sustained peace
education to crystallize their soc
ial awareness against war.
The sample group comprised
2,677 children in grades three to
eight in New York, New Jersey
and Maryland, whom Dr. Tolley
interviewed early in 1971. At the
time, Vietnam was still an abra
sive public issue. These children
had lived their entire lives in a
war environment. They were the
first generation to have observed
televised combat. And they had
been exposed to the anti-war
movement in the schools during
the 1960s.
Acceptance of the inevitability
of war by these children, though
almost all thought it bad, may
hold a grim portent for the fu
ture unless the colleges and uni
versities can develop peace
studies to shape their attitudes
more successfully than their
childhood influences.
Some 54 percent of the child
ren agreed that “war is some
times necessary.” Most of the
children opined that war is just
ified if it defends our country’s
freedom. Third of the children in
terviewed believed that war is
good if it results in the defeat
of communism.
An implied warning on the cyc-
icism toward war among the
youth of 1971 was voiced by Dr.
Tolley. “If the radical movement
of the 1960s derived in part from
the disappointed expectation of
idealistic youth,” he said, “the
more critical children of 1971
should face no such disillusion
ment in the decade ahead. Rath
er than manifest righteous in
dignation at departures from the
democratic creed, more cynical
youth might simply accept the
system with resignation.
Some of Tolley’s other thought-
provoking findings are:
Predator Control
Topic of Research
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A selection committee of seven
people will screen the applicants
and choose the delegate. The
committee consists of: Dr. Charles
McCandless, associate dean of the
College of Liberal Arts; Dr. Betty
Unterberger, professor in the De
partment of History; Dr. Bonnie
Beaver, assistant professor in the
Department of Veterinary Anato
my; Mrs. Grace Kieffer, an active
member of the community; Clif
ford H. Hansdell, assistant dean
of the College of Engineering;
and Nancy Ondrovik and Randy
Ross, student representatives.
Applicants will be screened on
November 14 and the representa
tive announced shortly thereafter.
Predator control in game man
agement is an acceptable practice
in South Texas if there is enough
hunting pressure to remove the
resulting surplus of game ani
mals.
There are other “ifs” involved,
but this in general sums up the
findings of Dr. Sam L. Beasom
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station and the A&M Uni
versity Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries Sciences.
Beasom, who says predator con
trol is one of the hottest ecology
issues of the day, described his
research during a recent meeting
of the Wildlife Subcommittee of
the Texas Legislative Committee
on Environmental Afairs.
He told the subcommittee that
the phenomenon of predation is
a tough ecological problem that
is difficult to interpret biologi
cally because there are so many
inter-acting variables to consider.
The scientist outlined his stud
ies on experimental predator
(mostly coyotes and bobcats) re
moval in South Texas’ Kleberg
County in 1971 and 1972. His
project was part of the Caesar
Kleberg Research Program in
Wildlife Ecology at Texas A&M.
He investigated the impact of
predators on white-tailed deer,
wild turkeys and bobwhite quail.
He also monitored rodent and
predator numbers. Steel traps,
hunting, cynanide guns, and
strychnined egg and meat baits
were the control methods used.
A hypothetical cost - benefit
analysis indicated it would be eco
nomically practical, he said, to
operate an intensive predator re
moval program to bolster deer
and turkey populations—if a sub
stantial portion of tbe surplus
animals produced are harvested.
The surplus in the study was 87
male turkeys, 85 male deer and
85 female deer.
Assuming that these game ani
mals were each worth $50, $160
and $50, respectively, to the land-
owner, a gross return of $21,300
was possible from the experimen
tal area. Accumulated costs were
$7,315, leaving a net return of
$2.59 per acre.
“These figures are of no small
consequence, since today most
landowners must strive for top
use of their resources,” Beasom
pointed out. “The returns pre
sented are minimum estimates,
also, since on prime South Texas
deer ranges, season leases for
hunting often are around $500 to
$600 per man.”
But while the project showed
to be economically sound, it does
not necessarily follow that it
would be biologically justifiable,
he emphasized.
In some areas inhabited by the
large, rare predators, such as
wolves, or rare, non-target ani
mals affected by control tech
niques, such a project would like
ly be biologically unsound, he
added.
“In South Texas, however, I
could detect no detrimental ef
fects of the short term, intensive
removal program. Predator pop
ulations were apparently affected
very little, as they rapidly re
populated the experimental area
each year when removal opera
tions ceased,” Beasom explained.
Rodents did not increase, and
quail numbers rose only a little.
He concluded that the quail were
better able to hold their own, com
pared to the turkey, because of
their re-nesting and late summer
breeding.
Reproduction of the slower
breeding turkey and deer, how
ever, probably could be greatly
boosted by intensive predator re
moval. But Beasom cautioned
that it would likely be unwise to
try intensive removal under a
light hunter harvest without long
term research to see how high
deer and turkey density would go
before being stabilized by some
other factor.
Summing up, Beasom told the
subcommittee that it is the posi
tion of the A&M Wildlife and
Fisheries Sciences Department to
support a sound predator manage
ment program if:
—It can be shown that such
management will enhance game
animal numbers.
—The enhancement is warrant
ed because of an increase in hunt
er pressure.
—There is a real depredation
problem with domestic livestock.
—T h e predator management
does not cause eradication or
overpopulation of any species.
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