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eneral addresses cadets
Officers receive oath
By MARY JO RUMMEL
Battalion Staff
i Leadership and commitment
i the keys to being a successful
leer, Lt. Gen. George C.
ie W ( eveland told the newly commis-
ned officers at the 1981 Fall
mmissioning Friday.
Cleveland, commander of the
University at Maxwell Air
rce Base in Alabama, adminis-
ed the oath of office to the 66
officers.
Twenty-six second lieutenants
re commissioned into the
ny, 21 second lieutenants
ed the Air Force, 10 cadets
ame Marine second lieute-
its and nine cadets were com-
sioned as ensigns in the Navy.
(“It takes a special kind of dedi-
Msed
ote, lei,
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kea
atb)
the pi
at is a
cation — a motivation to serve
rather than to be served — to be
an officer,” Cleveland said.
“There is a trend in the country
and military away from institu
tional commitments and toward
individual occupational commit
ments, but it is fundamentally in
consistent with the purpose of the
armed service.”
The military is not just another
job — it requires selflessness and
self-discipline, he said.
He told the new officers that, as
they enter into the service, they
are “75 percent of what (they) will
be or what (they) can be ... but
(there is) a lot of room for improve
ment.”
At the beginning of the cere
monies, Texas A&M President
Frank E. Vandiver presented the
Doherty Award to Jess W. Mason.
Mason, of Colorado Springs,
Colo., graduated in May 1981.
While in school, he served as ex
ecutive officer in the First Brigade
and 1981 senior class president.
The award was established by
W.T. Doherty, Class of ’22, in
honor of his parents William Doh
erty and Kathleen Pace Doherty.
The award, given each semes
ter, goes to a graduating senior
“who has spent four years in the
Corps, received a commission and
has demonstrated high moral
character,” Vandiver said.
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By NANCY WEATHERLEY
Battalion Staff
■jlach year, Texas A&M’s Stu
nt Conference on National
lirs brings students, faculty,
Bmment officials and public fi-
irfs together to discuss topics of
itional or international import-
ICI
mhe main topic of SCON A 27,
Beheld Feb. 10 through 13, is
yspectives on Soviet Foreign
which includes the goals
id domestic considerations of the
jyiet Union, its relatiohs with
r major powers and its poli-
in Eastern Europe and in de
ping countries.
avid Givens, SCONA plan
ing subcommittee chairman,
the conference wanted a topic
was both international and
!‘We want to bring in a different
spective on the Soviets,” he
. “We hope to emphasize what
Soviets are doing.”
he speakers will examine what
itivates the Soviets’ foreign
iicy, Givens said,
uestions that SCONA would
to answer at the conference
hide what the Soviets would
to accomplish with their poli-
is, how their domestic policies
feet their foreign policy and what
fele ideology plays in their poli-
|s.
The keynote address will deal
tfth the mainsprings of Soviet
reign policy. A speaker has not
ien confirmed, but SCONA has
ent invitations to former Presi-
ent Richard Nixon, current Sec-
iary of State Alexander Haig and
alcolm Toon, former United
ptes ambassador to the Soviet
^ |‘°n-
ibther potential speakers in-
ude Averell Harriman, fonner
ambassador-at-large and ambassa-
Ci or to the Soviet Union and Great
L/u Britain; and Marshall Schullman,
Spolitical science professor at Col
umbia University.
£ i Other topics will be Soviet fore
ign policy and the balance of pow-
erwithOlge M. Sokolov, current
ab minister-counselor at the Soviet
hour Embassy; and Soviet policy in
:gate»Mstern Europe with Longin Pas-
a ] srfusiak, a specialist in Soviet-East
fgrfed European affairs and director and
dviu 1 PK’b'ssor at the Institute for the
audit f^dy °f Contemporary Problems
’ of Capitalism in Warsaw, Poland.
' u ’ lAlso at the conference will be
OC' Roger E. Kanet, apolitical science
jtoiitf’lrofessor at the University of Illi-
itpBis, who will speak on Soviet
3 jrdo*(policy in the developing coun-
SCONA
Space Age,” will give the closing
address.
An important part of the three-
day conference is the round table
discussion, during which student
delegates divide into groups of 18
students along with two round
table co-chairmen, and exchange
ideas on the topics presented.
“This is the heart of SCONA,”
Givens said. “This is where dele
gates get to bump heads and test
and defend ideas presented at the
conference. ’’
Ruth Burns, public relations
chairman of SCONA, safd the co-
chairman will moderate the 10
round table groups and guide the
discussion of the topics.
Some co-chairman who have
accepted SCONA’s invitation in
clude Dr. Henry Dethloff, head of
the Texas A&M history depart
ment; Elizabeth Costello, a for
mer academic counselor with the
Mexico/Central America, Insti
tute of International Education in
Mexico City; and Dr. A. E. Bock, a
naval systems engineering profes
sor at the United States Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Ily" li
Peter Osnos, a journalist who
has written such books about Rus
sia as “Carter Watch: Foreign
lolicy in the 1970s,” “War and
Peace: the U.S. and Russia,” and
breign Correspondent in the
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