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THE BATTALION MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1981 Page 5 s ,ocal rit her Itfl asis," ^ 'Meone»i wee saltt, of their t lets no ‘special treatment' — Cav gets first woman rider FAMHEBS MARKET „ st[l ly JENNIFER AFFLERBACH Battalion Staff i ./When cadet Beebe Buck went ve , e ? thher roommate to buy Parsons’ . n ^l runted Cavalry collar brass for her 10n ^ iform, she was told there are no men in the Cavalry. Privacy,^ Her roommate promptly set the itionofu lord straight: “Well, now there le who ii ’ i values,} Buck, a junior biomedical science alth,” Fr« ijorfrom Mililani, Hawaii, is the stfemale to ride with the unit since a-, j was organized in 1974. for CTMC—also known as “the Cav” j ® [is a group of Cadet Corps juniors mstituT ^ sen ‘ ors w ^° r 'de at all home foot- r , J IIgames and perform at agricultu- .. . 61,1 andequestrian events throughout » ' w ® xas. There are 25 members this ar, commanding officer Dennis ?overnmat pamardo said. right toi, Buck said she had no problems at d how i® iyofthe games or on the two Corps rinkle sail ps to Austin and Dallas. But she : are agiii id that many people were sur- >ce in tie ised to see her. I thrust! Buck said she gets no special ridual’sl* atment from the male members of e Cavalry. "I have to show them that I’m ‘sentingl to ” s h e said. “They jounced! m’t do stuff for me. They don’t try J ma ^ e ^ an y harder, either.” me Amen Cavalry member Kenny Ray, who ridpayae | J “ rea j ) rea j shocked” when Buck st became a member, said, “She’s ovedherself. She’s held her own. ” But he added, “I still feel it (the ivalry) should be all male.” ’’ Another Cavalry member who led not to be named said, “I don’t ink women should be in the Caval- or the Corps.” Mike Chandler, a junior in the ivalry, said, “I don’t mind (admit- ig women). It’s bound to happen lock. Itjn l° neror * ater ” n > t | et g 0( Chandler said Buck “pulls more and saw “her own weight." oassedoil The general reaction from Corps oughtlH em ^ ers "h as been a lot better than ixpected,” Buck said. “Quite a few iys are for me. The majority just aw his»:epquiet.” rump 1ft Buck sa jd she occasionally hears, h a shovel j] ere ’ s the girl in the Cav,” as she ;d. He s! [Jks by. She has received a few i foot, ide comments, but she said that is Someo*!la expected. i resuscit! People ask me if I got on (the ivalry) just to cause trouble, to . ale waves,” she said, would 1 Buck, who has been riding horses couldrllyears, said that is not the case. [C immeii ie has wanted to be in the Cavalry Burns « lce ^ f irst f oun( J ou t about it her thebupf y ear> s jj e sa idl — withoi Throughout her sophomore year, she spent her spare time at the stables where the Cavalry horses are kept, building fences, cleaning up, and showing that she was willing to work, she said. Requirements for joining the Cavalry are membership in the Corps, a 2.0 grade point ratio and junior or senior classification, ac cording to the Cavalry’s constitu tion. Some riding ability is also neces sary to become a member, Scarmado said. During their sophomore year, cadets may apply to the Cavalry’s Rules Committee to be voted on for membership. There is no limit to the number of applicants that may be accepted. The Rules Committee consists of the advisor, executive officer and other Cavalry members. Although she has her own horse, Buck had to borrow one to ride in the Texas Tech football game. Hers was temporarily “a horse of a different color. ” For uniformity, all the horses rid den in the Cavalry are brown. Buck’s was gray. After an application of two cases of brown dye from a beauty salon, Buck’s was pink. She said she received quite a bit of teasing from Cavalry members over that. Buck is from Hawaii and had nev er been in Texas before coming to Texas A&M University. She decided to become an Aggie when she lived in Korea, where she worked for a veterinarian who had gone to Texas A&M. Buck, who initially joined the Corps “just to get a room on cam pus,” said, “I like the Corps. You get hooked.” She does not plan to go into the military after she graduates, she said, but would like to work with large animals as a veterinary techni cian. Asked if she would encourage other women to join the Cavalry, Buck said she knows of three sopho mores who are interested, “but I don’t go around encouraging them. ” “You’ve got to want to feed horses and build fences,” she said. “It’s not for someone who just wants to wear a cord or a ribbon.” Members of the cavalry wear dis tinctive gold citation cords and rib bons on their uniforms. Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry was named in a suit filed in May 1979 against Texas A&M University as de nying membership to women cadets Coupon Special OUR it is BBQ $ 1 15 SANDWICH With This Coupon , ] p ■si *- k. ■ A delicious combination of BBQ Beef, pickle and onion on home-made bread. Special Good Through Sun., Feb. POBOYS, PASTRIES, FRESH BREAD 329 UNIVERSITY NORTHGATE Across from the Post Office Staff photo by Brian Tate Beebe Buck, the first female member of Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry since the unit’s forma tion in 1974, saddles her horse, Brigadoon, at the PMC stables on FM 2818. Ttresfone FIGHTS INFLATION solely on the basis of sex. The suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of former Corps member Melanie Zentgraf and other women in the Corps. 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