THE BATTALION
MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1981
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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
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Staff photo by Brian Tate
Beebe Buck, the first female member of Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry
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the PMC stables on FM 2818.
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solely on the basis of sex. The suit
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Liberties Union on behalf of former
Corps member Melanie Zentgraf
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