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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1978
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Fish class officers, senators
Freshmen vote Thursda
By DILLARD STONE
Battalion Reporter
Freshmen will elect their four
class officers and seven student
senators in Thursday’s fell election.
Both groups of officials will be
elected by an at-large vote of the
freshman class.
Senators will be responsible for
attending biweekly senate meet
ings, as well as working on one of
the five standing student commit
tees. The president, vice president,
secretary and treasurer will lead the
class of ’82 council during the com
ing year.
“The main requirement of a
senator is that he he available to his
constituency,” said Bobby Tucker,
student body president. The
senators who have the time to work
hard in student government are the
ones who will be re-elected. Tucker
said.
Senators must maintain a 2.0
overall grade point ratio while in of
fice, he added.
Eight polling places will be open
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. To vote, stu
dents must bring their activity cards
to any one of the following places:
the bus stops outside the Memorial
Student Center, Reed
Building, and the Common
Corps Guardroom in Lounge|
side the Commons; the
sidewalk outside Sbisa Dining
or the Kleberg Center on the'
Campus.
A "meet the candidates” gj
ing will be held this evenings
Duncan Dining Hall, accorij
Bob Kamensky, corps comma
All freshmen candidates have
invited to address the gathj
which will begin at appn
7:15, Kamensky said.
Army GIs 6 can’t read’
These signs, on the corner of Spence and Lubbock streets,
serve as a reminder of the freshman elections Thursday.
Seven senators and four class officers are due to be elected.
The eight polling places around campus will be open from S
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Battalion photo by Paige Beasley
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FORT HOOD, Texas — Some of
the men who would have to lead
American soldiers into combat in
another war say the inability of
many recruits to read and write
adequately is reducing the sophisti
cation of the modem army and tying
up skilled manpower during train
ing.
These men, combat arms officers
and sergeants interviewed at the
Army’s largest post, place the blame
op the public school system. They
pointed to reports in recent years
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which have accused the system of
failing to teach these basics plus
basic mathematics properly.
In the increasingly technical mili
tary profession this means, they say,
that the armed services must spend
time and resources bringing many
recruits up to trainable standards
before they can begin to learn com
bat skills.
“Recruits are a product of society
and many high schools are not
adequately training graduates for
high-order thinking,” said 1st Sgt.
Franklin Lee, senior sergeant in a
company of rifleman. “Imagine
yourself in the place of a mid-level
or junior non-comissioned officer.
Imagine teaching the trooper who
recognizes the word in the manual
but who may not know what it
means. You can go really low on the
verbal scale to get across to him, but
meanwhile the brighter trooper is
going to go to sleep on you,” Lee
said.
The consensus among more than
a dozen officers and NCOs inter
viewed is that military operations
require more complicated equip
ment than ever before. Even the in
fantryman, who traditionally fought
only with small arms, now must
cope with a variety of complex and
delicate missiles, radios ana chemi
cal weapons. In the armory, with its
laser range finders, and the artil
lery, with computerized fire direc
tion, the problem has become even
more acute.
“You can teach one of these
people to put stage one here and
stage two on top of that and so on,”
Lee explained. “But you can’t teach
him what the component does.”
Since the draft was abolished, the
Army has encouraged recn
draw manpower from amoiijj
highest scorers on the Armyq
ing examinations, according
study by Rep. Les Aspin, D-i.|
member of the House Armedi
ices Committee.
The Aspin study suggeststl
Army is taking fewer men I
lowest intellectual category t
could, and that with apn
with high school diplonusj
Army is passing over manyp
tially valuable recruits.
“High school dropouts ana
difficult to deal with,” said WtJ
Nelson, the Aspin aide wboj
piled the study. “Of highs
dropouts, about 40 percent!
work out. That means thatifyi
fuse to accept) 100 dropouts y
losing 60 good soldiers.” The^
bat leaders at Fort Hood ag
graduation from high school^
not guarantee the recruit hash
tellectual equipment to deal^
military demands.
“The (1st Cavalry Division!
been testing all new people, |
Capt. Richard Ringler, comm
of an artillery battery. ‘Oflil
cruits tested, they found
levels of between 9th andl
grade. All those tested word
school graduates.” The needt|
grade education to a minimi
ceptable level for some
means less resources are ava
for advancing the education 8
ter qualified soldiers, Ringlersl
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“If a man wants to go tos
chances are he’s the one you!
most with the unit,” Ringlerj
“You can’t send him off tos
cause you’d be cutting yourj
throat when you go to the fielcl
Educational deficiencies in'!
more than training proble®J
some cases, failures in trainiufl
rise to difficulties in discipline If
trary to the commonly hekb
that the less intelligent soldisl
spends more readily to orders|
combat leaders stressed thatl(
educated soldiers make leadf
“The more education thej
vidual has, the easier he is I
said Chief Warrant Officer|!
Higgins, a helicopter pilots
cavalry regiment. "As the i
goes up in education, he asksfc
questions because he knows tk|
son for the order. He can f
out for himself.”
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Sgt. 1st Class Ralph Lud»S|
platoon sergeant in a tank comj
said discipline problems have#
somewhat since the advent 1
all-volunteer force. “19711
when we bottomed out,’ M
“Now we’ve tightened up. No*|
have better control of your"
There seems to be a better
trooper. ”
Lee suggested the problem^
be solved through broader-f
education both in the military^
civilian schools. “If you can j
individual interested in thinj?|
liberal arts, history, psycholofj
finds other outlets,” Lee said j
reduce your discipline
problems. If you keep upj?
both the civilian and military ^
you get a better soldier-citiK 1 1
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