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msm LWi IKO ralE fiS 3R!U( IKin' W;v)ti-4 MuM] KWt; ■ jj'ii Page 14/The Battalion/Thursday, May 5, 1983 4 Corps (continued from page 1) portant because their child - ren are going to be coming to A&M in a few years,” he said. “Their opinions are going to in fluence whether or not their children are in the Corps.” Mike Holmes, 1982-83 Corps commander, said the Corps’ big gest success in the past year has been in the academic area. Holmes said the attitude of cadets toward academics prob ably has changed the most dur ing the four years he’s been at Texas A&M. “The year before I was a freshman there was a lot of the ‘2.0 and go’ and that type,” Holmes said. “You just never hear that anymore. Now its ‘Fish Jones, what did you make on your chemistry test? How are your grades doing?”’ Holmes said the cadets want to excel academically, realizing that they need good grades to get a job. “Instead of campusology questions, sometimes they now ask freshmen chemistry or cal culus questions,” Holmes said. “It’s not only the attitude, but also the conditions. Call to quar ters is more strictly enforced.” Abbott said he plans to con tinue working to improve grades. “Our goal is to beat the Uni versity average three semesters in a row,” Abbott said. “If we do that, that would help out tremendously. Parents wouldn’t have to worry about the Corps hurting grades.” Burton said the fall mid semester Corps GPR was about 2.1. By the end of the fall semes ter, the Corps GPR was a 2.3, which was just below the overall University average. “While we were under the University average a little bit, I was pretty pleased with that for two reasons,” Burton said. “The fall semester is absolutely the busiest time of year for our cadets — football games. Corps, trips, bonfire — any number of things that the Corps supports. “Also, when you talk about the University average against the Corps average, you’re really talking about apples and oranges. The Corps is obviously all full-time undergraduate stu dents. In the University average, there are some students who may not be full-time students or are graduate students and veter inary students.” At midsemester in the spring, the Corps GPR was 2.5. Burton said he believes the Corps will .finish the year at this level, or even above the University av erage. Abbott said he also hopes to improve retention in the Corps. “It takes a good attitude to be able to make it,” Abbott said. “And that attitude is going to be formed by the upperclassmen. It will work even better if we can dispel some of the myths about the Corps. One myth is that the Corps hurts grades. Three semesters of beating the Univer sity average will help with this image problem. Another myth is that you have to take a military contract.” Burton said the Corps of Cadets began the year with 2,327 members and has about 1,957 now. “That’s a little better than last year,” Burton said. “Last year, we began with 2,407 and ended with 1,953. So even though we started about 80 fewer last year, we’re winding up the school year with about the same number.” The Corps has ended the year with about 1,950 each year for the past four years, he said. Burton attributed the drop out rate to the number of stu dents who don’t return to the University, or to students who Second flood forces 60 families to evacuate United Press International TIMES BEACH, Mo. — Offi cials say the second devastating flood in five months should con vince everyone that dioxin- contaminated Times Beach is an unfit place to live. Floodwaters of 15 feet surged through the town Tuesday forc ing the remaining 60 families to evacuate. “This town is terminal,” said Laine Jumper, a former Times Beach contractor and a member of the presidential dioxin task force. The flooding Meramec River forced all but a few of the re maining residents from the St. Louis suburb of small frame houses and mobile homes. Jum per said he hopes the town re mains deserted, adding that could be an important step in hastening the $33 million feder al buyout of the village. A curfew was in effect and temporary wooden barricades were set up to keep people out of town. Electric service will be cut off soon, Jumper said. Jumper said anybody ventur ing back to Times Beach after the Meramec recedes would find only wrecked buildings and a ruined drinking-water system. State and federal officials plan to meet May 12 in St. Louis in an attempt to decide who will take title to the property. The issue must be decided before an appraisal company can begin work, officials said. Almost every street in the vil lage was sprayed a decade ago with waste oil containing dioxin to control dust. Waste hauler Russell Bliss later said he did not know the oil contained a hazar dous substance. Before Monday, about 60 families lived in the town, which had about 2,400 residents be fore December’s flooding. Acting Mayor Marilyn Leist- ner said she expects the latest rampage by the Meramec will leave the village a ghost town. “With this flood now, the people can’t take any more,” she said. Walter Adams, 58, was one of the few residents who refused to leave. Family members said they left Adams on the second floor of their home, which is stocked with canned goods. “There’s no way to get him out,” police Sgt. Dan Gore said. As much as 15 feet of flood- waters surged through the town Tuesday, covering streets and further damaging homes and businesses. lw Msr SWIMWEAR SALE Entire Stock of Swimwear 7m*rx\ Guys Walk Shorts & Colored Shirts Va Off Other Selected Items POST OAK MALL Warped by Scott McGill don’t like the Corps for personal reasons. “We have lost a few upper classmen for disciplinary reasons this year,” Burton said. “We haven’t had to put a fresh man out of the Corps for disi- plinary reasons this year. We are very proud of the Class of ’86.” Burton said the Corps’ big gest problem has involved disci pline. “The Corps leadership must solve these problems quickly,” Burton said. “These problems will happen anyway — cadets are just like other University stu dents.” Burton said, however, that the cadets have done well in many areas. “We have had increasing in volvement in all sorts of student activities,” Burton said. “The big success this year has been that the leadership has really under taken to fulfill the role in the student body, to give all students pride in the Corps. When the Corps decides to do something, it gets done.” During the Christmas holi days, more than 100 students on campus who were not in the Corps joined the Corps. “Interestingly enough, the main reason most of these stu dents came in was either because they were interested in ROTC and adding that option to their lives, or because they felt like the Corps was the place to make friends,” Burton said. “I think comraderie is one of the main reasons people get in the Corps in the first place. I know during bonfire we had several fellows come over and talk to us who had been working on the same cutting sites as Corps outfits and struck up ac quaintances out there.” Friday: The future of women and minorities in the Corps WHAT'5 THAT? MY NE.W WATCH. IT'S SHOCK PROOF, DUST PROOF AND m&NET/C PROOF.. ...AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE WATER RESISTANT. T WAS TOST GOING TO CHECK OUT THAT PART OF THE CLAIM. AUHG! WO! A/Of! x d oa/ t WAA/MA, X TELL 100. DONTl LEMM& GO!! vn YEP, THAT IF XVE s RESISTS I EVER SEEN IT. * <0 -9- Hitler (continued from page 1) discipline to keep a diary. “His whole program was based on discipline. But I would still vote against the chances that Hitler would have had the time to record 62 volumes of diaries,” he said. “We’re not talking about a sane man,” Krammer added. “Later in his life, Hitler was tak ing a whole bunch of drugs — upppers, downers, laughers, gigglers — there’s a book called ‘The Medical Case Book of Adolf Hitler,’ which tracks down Hitler’s past with drugs.” It is because of the drug abuse history, Krammer said, that he thought Hitler was in no condi tion to write every day. 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