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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
Krammer said he doesn’t feel
there is a large neo-Nazi senti
ment nor one growing in the
United States and Germany.
“If the diaries are published
in their entirety,” he said, "they
could certainly fuel an already
ugly sentiment rising all over the
world about anti-semitism.”
But Krammer said he person
ally would like the diaries to be
determined authentic because
they would provide more insight
about Hitler the man, rather
than the Third Reich.
“If they are real,
them to be published a
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