THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 19T4
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Enrollment drops threaten ROTC
Omost half of the Army Reserve
icers Training Corps units on uni-
sity campuses have suffered
ps in enrollment that threaten
ir financial and academic viabil-
according to The Chronicle of
'her Education.
[he Chronicle, higher education’s
kly newspaper, reports that
le 140 of the currently existing
I Army ROTC units have fewer
17 students enrolled in their
ior classes, a circumstance that
gests they may have difficulty
ducing enough commissioned of-
:rs to warrant the continuation of
units by the military.
The fate of those units is not clear.
Col. Cornelius J. Radu, chief of
Army s ROTC branch, told The
ronicle that “letters of concern”
luld probably be sent to all schools
with less than the desirable third-
ear enrollment,” warning them that
ieir units have fallen to marginal
|els in officer production,
hose schools would be given a
r to increase their enrollments,
hey could then be put on "proba-
ion fora year, after which the Army
night terminate a unit whose pro-
iictivity had not improved.
However, Colonel Radu stressed
that most of the 140 schools now
below the minimum were expected
to qualify for continuation, particu
larly since many have sizable first-
and second-year ROTC enrollments
that will swell the third year classes
in coming years. Only about 42 units
are so diminished that they appear
almost certain to be abolished, he
said.
The “letters of concern” will be
based on a new Defense Department
requirement, not yet promulgated,
that calls for third-year ROTC en
rollments to total 17 or more.
However, the number of third-
year students enrolled will not be the
sole criterion for determining
whether a unit will be continued.
Colonel Radu said the Army would
consider an institution’s past record
in producing officers, its administra
tive support of ROTC programs, its
output of minority-group officers,
and its geographical location, among
other factors, before deciding to
eliminate a unit. “We wouldn’t hang
our heads on one number,” he said.
The Army will probably delay
sending out its warning letters until
after it has reviewed the enrollment
statistics next fall, at which time
some of the 140 schools may already
have bettered their standing.
The disestablishment of an ROTC
unit would have varying impacts on
the parties involved. Students al
ready enrolled are generally pro
vided for under a gradual phase-out,
but students in future years would
not have the option of ROTC training
and would not be eligible for ROTC
scholarships. The universities might
thus have to come up with scholar
ship funds for some of those stu
dents, but they would also probably
save some money on administrative
costs, since ROTC units seldom pay
their full overhead.
The armed services, meanwhile,
are expected to obtain more of their
officers through short-term Officers’
Candidate Schools to make up for the
drop in ROTC production.
Meanwhile, some institutions that
banned ROTC at the height of anti-
Vietnam war feeling in the late
1960’s and 1970’s are having second
thoughts. Boston University whose
faculty voted in favor of reinstating
ROTC has been talking with military
officials about the possibilities.
Dartmouth College and New York
University have established commit
tees to study the pros and cons of
reinstating ROTC. And Harvard’s
president, Derek Bok, has repor
tedly complained that the decision to
abolish ROTC from his campus was
made “under extreme pressure and
in great haste,” although Harvard
does not seem to have taken any offi
cial steps to reconsider its position.
The reasons cited for reconsidera
tion on various campuses include
alumni and trustee pressure, the
waning of anti-military sentiment
with the American pull-out from Vie-
motional caucus results
in Schmidt’s appointment
ONN, Germany (AP)—Helmut
midt, a tough finance minister
d as a firm friend of the United
|tes, won his party’s nomination
sday to succeed West German
lancellor Willy Brandt.
Brandt, who won a Nobel Peace
ze for improving relations bet-
en West Germany and Com-
mist Eastern Europe, resigned
ly Tuesday over an espionage
ndal.
While Bonn buzzed with rumor
;r possible underlying causes for
indt’s decision to accept personal
ponsibility for a close aide’s role as
a Communist East German spy, the
55-year-old Schmidt’s nomination
was approved in an emotional ses
sion of the Social Democratic party’s
parliamentary caucus.
“This is not the time to yammer,”
Brandt told weeping legislators in his
first public appearance since his res
ignation was announced soon after
midnight Monday.
“I am certain that our state will
have a federal government that is
firmly on the track in 14 days,
Schmidt said before breaking off a
Hamburg visit to return to Bonn
soon after his nomination.
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tnam, a desire to give students the
option of military training if they de
sire it, a feeling that campus inputs
can serve as a liberalizing and
humanizing influence on the milit
ary, and a recognition that Congress
often seeks to punish universities
that have banned ROTC.
However, universities that ban
ned the military won’t necessarily be
able to woo them back. There is a
waiting-list of institutions seeking to
establish units, and some military of
ficials may harbor resentment
against those that previously re
jected them.
The 60-year-old Brandt, whose
policies of East-West reapproach-
ment bolstered his country’s world
status and won him the 1971 Nobel
prize, fell in a political storm raised
by the discovery of a Communist
East German spy on his personal
staff.
Brandt had been chancellor for 4 1 /6
years and made normalization with
the rival German government in
East Berlin one of the chief objec
tives of his Ostpolitik. He had sur
vived a parliamentary crisis sparked
by his East-West detente policies
two years ago and went on to win a
special general election by landslide
proportions.
But as his Ostpolitik slowed in the
face of East German resistance and
as inflation at home eroded his popu
larity, Brandt showed increasing ir
ritability. Observers at home and ab
road reported he seemed weary of
his office.
The final straw appeared to be
when Guenter Guillaume, 47, a
pudgy-faced political affairs aide in
the federal chancellery, was arrested
as an East German spy on April 24.
Although other members of his
government, chiefly Horst Ehmke,
came under much harsher opposi
tion attack, Brandt took upon himself
“political responsibility for neglig
ence in connection with the espion
age affair Guillaume, ” as his letter of
resignation expressed it shortly after
midnight Monday night.
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Gen. George S. Brown, Air Force
Chief of Staff, will address newly
commissioned officers this Saturday.
A 33-year military veteran, the
four-star general will also take part in
Final Review of the Corps of Cadets.
It will follow the 2:30 p.m. commis
sioning program in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Graduate lecture
The two feature events, along with
commencement, conclude corps ac
tivities for 1973-74. Col. Thomas R.
Parsons, commandant, indicated
that 161 Army, Air Force and Marine
Corps cadets are to take oaths as sec
ond lieutenants at the commission
ing program.
Dr. Mary Ellen Rudin of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin will present a
graduate lecture Friday.
Dr. Rudin of the UW Department
of Mathematics, will speak on “The
Normality of Products” at 4 p.m.
Friday in Room 200 of the Harring
ton Education Center.
Prof. Rudin received her Ph. D.
degree in 1949 at the University of
Texas. In addition to her teaching,
the professor is an editor of the
mathematics journal General Topol
ogy and Its Applications and is a
member of the Council of the Ameri
can Mathematical Society.
Overseas jobs
The Student Overseas Services
(SOS) which has been helping col
lege students in Europe for the past
16 years announces that the number
of summer jobs now available in
Europe is higher than original esti
mates.
The placement office of the ser
vices states that in an effort to bring
interested students together with
available jobs a speeded up mail ap
plication system is being used. Jobs
are given out on a non-profit, first
come, first served basis to students
between 18 and 27 years of age.
Students who have never previ
ously worked or studied in Europe
must undergo a brief orientation
period at their own expense, after
they arrive in Europe. Among other
benefits to students, the orientation
is designed to make certain every
student gets off to their job on the
right foot. Jobs, mostly in resorts.
restaurants and hotels, are not al
ways plush and the work can be hard.
But the fact is that a job is there, in
Europe, and with free room and
board and a standard wage any stu
dent willing to work can see and be
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and submit their applications soon.
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