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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1981
Revitalization has been a boon to some Corps units
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By CINDY GEE
Battalion Staff
As is the tradition, changes in tra
dition always seem to meet with
opposition.
Corps changes are no exception.
The program, introduced this year,
calls for a shift in responsibilities
among the sophomore, junior, and
senior classes.
Under the voluntary program,
sophomores who traditionally were
responsible for providing leadership
and disciplining the freshman now
would have a year to sit back and
watch the juniors take on that role,
ward the shahj Seniors would play a more active role
hen the UnitedSt and executmg Corps
: was also burnedi ’Phe new program has met with
in the Nixon yeti oppostion from juniors who don’t
larch a blank clitd want to be the disciplinarian another
ienal. year, outfits that say the old system
ons in the early! worked fine for them, people who
acted precipitij! like to see shaved heads, and people
dv the livesolij i who just don’t want to see change.
But the program has also met with
praise and positive results.
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Tom Wilson, Corps personnel
officer, said representatives from
military schools came to Texas A&M
University last semester for a confer
ence and were excited because they
saw the potential in the new prog
ram. He said a few cadets were in
vited to go to the Virginia Military
Institute in February and tell people
about the program.
“The Corps is becoming more
sophisticated every year,” said Ken
Cross, Corps commander. “The in
telligence level is rising and people
are looking back and saying some of
the old tradition just doesn’t go com
petitively in a major institution.”
Wilson said a lot of the bad tradi
tion came around the late 60s and
early 70s during the Vietnam war.
“It’s not really old army tradition, ”
he said, “they were more rambunc
tious then and they had a lot of anxie
ty. Many people just don’t know the
story behind the tradition. We lost a
lot of the real tools to leadership like
communication and an open mind.
“When I first heard about it, I was
Dorm 5 civilian
housing vetoed
By MICHELE ROWLAND
Battalion Reporter
No one had to say “it’s Miller
time,” for members of Company B-1
to know that it was finally time to
relax. Their worries that civilians
would be permanently assigned
Htheir dorm rooms are over.
Anticipating vacancies in the
Corps dorms, the Housing Office
said it was possible civilians would be
housed in Dorm 5, said Nolen
Mears, housing area coordinator for
the Corps of Cadets.
If Corps dorm vacancies this
spring are similar to those of last
spring, there could be a revenue loss
ofabout $140,000, Mears estimated.
Since a final accurate room count,
which Mears said would aid the
Housing Office in deciding “how to
best match needs to occupancy ” and
how to involve the fewest number
ofpeople in the move,” would not be
completed until after the first few
days of school, civilians were tem
porarily housed in rooms scattered
throughout the Corps area.
Yet within three school days, ev
ery one of the 75 civilian men re
ceived a permanent room assign
ment in one of the civilian residence
halls of their choice, said Bob Elhert,
the designated civilian RA.
However, when the room count
was completed, the Housing Office
found that Corps vacancies dropped
from 400 last spring to 290 this
spring.
Nevertheless, Dorm 5 would have
been the logical dorm to go civilian,
Mears said.
Since it is located near to Aston,
Briggs and Spence, it would have fit
in as a part of civilian comer, he said.
Cadets viewed this proposal as a
possible threat to the unity of Corps
housing.
Officials from the Housing Office
and leaders met to negotiate and eva
luate the proposal.
Brigade Commander Bill Jones
said that members of B-l understood
the situation but did not think that
the Housing Office had looked at
other alternatives.
Chimes warn late
students of time
By BETH GIBSON
Battalion Reporter
The student wakes up from his nap, stretches and looks sleepily
around the library. Suddenly, he realizes he is surrounded by silence
and deep shadows. The clock reads 1 a.m. and the library doors were
closed and locked an hour ago.
This student need not panic nor return to his nap and spend the
night locked in Sterling C. Evans Library. He only has to follow the
sign on the front circulation desk: “Locked in? Call 845-1111 or 845-
2345.”
The University Police can be reached at either of the numbers.
Strange as this may sound, library lock-ins are not uncommon.
Capt. John McDonald of the University Police said the police
department is busy almost every night rescuing locked-in students
from the library even though they usually have warning before it is
closed.
“We get calls almost every night,” he said. “It’s a problem for my
office. All because someone fell asleep, it takes time away from officers
that could be spent otherwise — checking other buildings and prop
erty.”
Chimes ring to warn students 30 minutes before closing time, 15
minutes before closing time and at the 12 a. m. closing time, said Emma
Perry, head of the library’s circulations division.
But she said most people are not aware the chimes mean it’s closing
time.
“When you hear those chimes, it means to get moving, she said.
“Have a friend with you if you are feeling sleepy and tell him, Wake
me up at closing time,”’ she suggested.
dead against it, but I found they
(people supporting the new prog
ram) have more of a concerned atti
tude. We’re trying to improve the
Corps public image and get back the
proper leadership traits.”
Roger Reese, commanding officer
of Company B-2, said programs don’t
make people work, it’s leaders.
“My big feeling is that leadership
is everything,” he said. “No matter
what the program, it’s the leader
who’s responsible. It’s how well the
sophomores are trained.
“We tried it but it didn’t work out
for my outfit. We’ve been successful
in the old way. I don’t think we were
strong enough or willing enough to
make the new system work. ”
The new program also permits
cadets to wear their hair longer.
“We want to have an all American
image instead of some kook sitting
there with his head shaved,” said
Tad Jarret, a commanding officer of
Squadron 12.
Wilson said he saw no value in a
shaved head. “A shaved heads
doesn’t show the image of a fine, out
standing young man,” he said. “If a
cadet thinks he looks halfway decent
he’ll have more confidence.”
Jarret said his outfit had some
problems trying to implement the
program as designed. Most juniors
weren’t hip on the idea of being
sophomores again as far as disciplin
ing the freshmen, he said, but after a
few years it will probably work itself
out. He said the problem was in de
fining what the juniors responsibili
ties were toward the sophomores.
“After midterm I felt like my soph
omores were ready to do a lot more
than the revitalization program plan
ned out,” he said.
The plan calls for sophomores to ,
take on more responsibilities around 1
spring break, he said. They are look- j
ing for a program to bring the sopho-'
mores into more of a scholastic-'
advisor type role with the freshmen, j
Cross said, because the sophomores
have recently completed many of the I
same courses.
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