Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1984)
Tuesday, August 7, 1984TThe Battalion/Page 5 Earle ‘Frog’program helps latecomers Cadets make up lost time o By JULIE ENNIS Reporter In one summer session 10 cadets an make up one and two years of ■raining in an Army ROTC com pression program designed to com- Press up to two years of military Braining to six weeks. I Maj. Michael Hardin, director of | [the compression program, says most r of the cadets enrolled in the pro- I eram are transfer students, j Hardin says it is difficult for stu dents to enter the Corps after their f jfreshmen year. | “It’s like putting a square peg in a ound hole,” Hardin says. He says the compression program helps cadets adjust to the academic nd psychological burdens of trans- Ifering into the Corps. I The program familiarizes the ca- I met with Texas A&M traditions and ttorps lifestyles, and gives them the [; Opportunity to make up the military Bicience classes they lack, Hardin ■ays. I Although they may have the |:|iours of a sophomore or junior, the ■adets have freshmen privileges dur ing the compression program. A typical weekday for the cadets egins around 6 a.m. with a personal inspection. Then they are drilled on “campusology,” the memorization of Texas A&M lores and traditions, and they participate in various types of physical training before breakfast. The cadets attend classes in civil ian clothes until about 12:30 p.m. After lunch the uniformed cadets make up from three to 12 hours of military science classes depending on their individual needs. The cadets are required to study in their rooms from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. during the week. Students who join the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets after completing their freshmen year are called “frogs”. John Dvoracek, a senior Corps member helping with the compres sion program, says the cadets who jump into the Corps after their freshmen year have a strong desire to succeed in the compression pro gram. “T hey possess a little more drive and determination than others,” he says. “They know that if they don’t succeed with this training, they won’t last in the fall.” Hardin says there are six junior and four sophomore cadets enrolled in the program. “Ideally we would like to have 20 to 30, but the smaller program has helped thes cadets build a unique comraderie,” he says. Ken Thompson, a junior political science major, says he is nervous about the fall semester, but feels well-prepared. “The compression program squeezes an entire freshmen year into about five weeks,” he says. “You learn about everything at Texas A&M and in the Corps.” He says he has made good friends during the program. “All 10 of us have really stuck together,” he says. “And we’ll make it together.” John McIntosh, a sophomore me chanical engineering major from San Angelo, says the compression program is physically and mentally demanding, but worth the agony. “I’ve always wanted to be in the Corps at Texas A&M, so it’s worth it for me,” he says. “It requires a lot of discipline. If you apply yourself you can ao it.” Hardin says the cadets work hard to make up for lost time as well as anxiously looking ahead to the fall semester and gaining the acceptance of their peers. In the net Village burial set for Richard Burton 1 t transistor. BM 7090. T 1 IBM om pared lo, :s vacuum-s The Cora d Langtni f which was siness proUc )blem$,also* : second m of coma IBM in IS n the areis ited circiE ers cheapf made in i id mul isically i a comp® electronic' ley also* compact i ■cl general awareness ould do, is j resent uses! United Press International CELIGNY, Switzerland — Rich ard Burton, “a hell-raiser since birth” whose drinking bouts and five marriages tvere as legendary as his stage and screen performances, will j be buried in the Lake Geneva village [ he considered a “little piece of Wales,” his agent said Monday. Burton’s death from a brain hem- jorrhage Sunday drew expressions of grief from film and stage stars around the world. He was 58. Burton’s agent, Valerie Douglas, said the actor wanted to be buried in Celigny, a village now counting just 601 innabitants in the Geneva coun tryside. “This was his little piece of Wales,” she told reporters at the sim ple house among vineyards where the actor stayed about three months a year. He was very popular with the vil lagers, once flying back from the United States after the death of the man who cared for his garden. The Burton household said the funeral was tentatively set for Thursday although final arrange ments would be made only on Tues day after the arrival of his daughter Kate from Rome, where she is filming. Douglas, the actor’s agent for 35 years, said there would be later me morial services in London, New York, Los Angeles and the Welsh mining town of Pontrhydyfen, where he was born Nov. 10, 1925. Douglas said Burton’s wife by his fifth marriage, the former Sally Hay, was unable to awaken him early on Sunday and, alarmed by his labored breathing, called a local doctor. Burton, who was unconscious, was rushed to the nearest hospital in the town of Nyon but transferred at once to the central hospital in Ge neva. “He went into emergency surgery at 10:45 a.m. (3:45 a.m.), but he could not make it through the oper ation and was pronounced dead at 1:15 p.m. (6:15 a.m.),” Douglas said. Actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose two marriages to Burton helped el evate him to the status of interna tional superstar, was “extremely up set and unable to say anything,” her spokeswoman, Chen Sam, said in New York. Burton was the 12th of 13 chil dren of a coal miner and arrange ments were being made for surviv ing family members to fly to Switzerland, Douglas said. Sally Burton, 36, was at her hus band’s side throughout except for his last hours in the operating room, Douglas said. It was also Sally Burton who tele phoned California to give the news to actress Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor was not expected to attend the funeral. Burton’s two stormy marriages to Taylor as well as his drinking often overshadowed his acting perfor mances — “he was a hell-raiser since birth,” Douglas said. Burton’s first wife was Sybil Wil liams, by whom he had two daugh ters, Kate and Jessica. In 1964 he married Taylor and they were di vorced in 1974. In 1975 he re-mar ried Taylor and they were divorced again later that year. Burton mar ried Susan Hunt in 1976. He was nominated seven times for an Oscar but never won the award for his performances in “My Cousin Racher in 1952, “The Robe” in 1953, “Becket” in 1964, “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” in 1965, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ in 1966, “Anne of the Thou sand Days” in 1969 and “Equus” in 1977. Printers non 1 r 499‘ Police Beat The following incidents were re ported to the University Police through Monday. MISDEMEANOR THEFT: • A brown Miyata ten-speed bicycle was stolen from in front of a student’s apartment. • A silver Trek 12-speed bicy cle was stolen from the Commons bike rack. • A brown Raleigh ten-speed bicycle was stolen from the Ross Street side of Thompson Hall. • A dark brown Columbia ten- speed bicycle was stolen from the Blocker Building bike rack. • A red Huffy 12-speed bicy cle was stolen from the sidewalk in front of Underwood Hall. • A Websters twentieth cen tury dictionary was stolen from 220 Engineering Research, • A student’s backpack was stolen from the Commons Dining area. The backpack contained textbooks and other personal items. CRIMINAL TRESPASS: • Several students reported seeing a man dressed as a woman in the East Kyle Women’s Locker Room. Officers arriving at the scene took the man to the Univer sity Police Department, where the students positively identified him. He was put in Brazos County Jail on a charge of criminal trespass. DISORDERLY CONDUCT: • Two students reported see ing a nude man running around in the area of Spence Hall and Aston Hall. Officers were unable to locate the man. BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE: • A student reported that someone reached through the open window of his car in Park ing Annex 48 and stole his wallet. The wallet contained $20 in cash, his student I.D., driver’s license and credit cards. '■9 rone inter ial compuW eEasUl 02 Tx. 77840 If t§i TW017 oz. Cokes 8.92 NOW 6.50 , TAX INCL. TAX j SAVE $2.42 I h I.U!kM>!iK I l;t.m »-tj> ui/' 3 -31-84 ssr > Courtyard Apartments Open House August 1-7 Large 2 Bedroom Studio Apartments Ask about our “Daily Specials” 600 University Oaks Hwy. 30 at Stallings 693-2772 Battalion Classified 845-2611 £**■—•* ( xperience college living at its finest. Select an apartment so close to campus it’s like living there but without all of the restrictions. Call today! Scandia 401 Anderson 693-6505 Aurora Gardens Aurora Ct. 693-6505 Sevilla 1501 Holleman 693-2108 Taos 1505 Park Place 693-6505 Warped by Scott McCullar On the Fri nge by Fred Leong Town for sale Heart of LB J country up for $425,000 United Press International ALBERT — The old schoolhouse where Lyndon B. Johnson learned to read and write is not included in the $425,000 sale price, but every thing else is in the tiny Central Texas town of Albert. Albert, a Gillespie County com munity about six miles south of LBJ’s birthplace, is being sold by its owners, Marvelene Maenius and Al vin Maenius Jr., who want to devote more time to their ranch. The price includes a three-bed- room house, a grocery, a bar, a hole- in-the-wall post office, a dance hall, several storage buildings and 12.5 acres. Mrs. Maenius says the price is a bargain, considering the history and nostalgia involved. The grocery store was built sometime around 1890 and the post office was estab lished about the same time. “Sure, everything’s old, except for the house, and there needs to be some work done,” said Mrs. Mae nius. “But someone that wanted to could come in here and do a lot with what’s here.” Mrs. Maenius says she and her husband bought the store in Albert from her husband’s cousin, Hugo Maenius, during the 1940s when the town was a thriving community that centered on a cotton gin that no longer exists. “Jobs were hard to come by at that time, and when Hugo asked if we wanted to buy the store and run, we figured we didn’t have anything to lose,” she said. “We had a lot to learn.” Johnson’s cousin, Ava Johnson Cox of Johnson City, said the late president learned to read and write in the Albert school before his family moved to nearby Johnson City. “He wasn’t but 4 or 5,” she said. “But our families lived close to gether and he’d slip off and come to school with us older kids and finally they just let him go to school.” Cox also recalled the old dance hall, which is now used for storage, as a popular meeting place for fami lies on a Saturday night. “Lord-a-mercy, I’ve danced a mil lion miles there,” she said. “And so did Lyndon and every other kid around. It was what you did on Sat urday nights. We had ourselves some great times there.” Because of the tourist traffic headed to nearby Luckenbach, Fredericksburg, Stonewall and Johnson City, Mrs. Maenius says the town’s new owners might have suc cess with a small cafe • Some food additives are good University News Service Food additives are found in gro cery products ranging from baby foods to coffee creamer. In fact, Americans swallow about five to ten ounds of emulsifiers, preservatives, avorings, colorings, acids and vita mins in their food each year. Yet few consumers can distin- uish between products that use ad- itives for a useful purpose, versus those that use additives to make a less-nutritious product more attrac tive, says Marilyn Haggard, a Texas A&M University Agricultural Exten sion Service nutritionist. On the positive side, she says, pre servatives help prevent spoilage, while emulsifiers keep water and oil mixed together. Vitamins and min erals add nutritional value. According to the nutritionist, some of the most common useful ad ditives include: Calcium propoinate — inhibits mold growth in bread. Polysorbate 60 — an emulsifier. Beta carotene — an artificial col oring that the body converts to vita min A. Citric acid — an acid that occurs naturally in citrus fruit. Thiamin mononitrate — a nutri ent (vitamin B-l). Carboxymethyl cellulose — a thickening agent. Sorbic acid — a preservative. Casein — a protein that is ob tained from milk. Vanillin — the main flavor com ponent of vanilla. However, shoppers should be concerned when additives are used as a replacement for nutritional foods, says Haggard. For example, thickening agents are sometimes used to make a food look rich and thick, even if it contains smaller amounts of ingredients than a com peting brand. Artificial colorings and flavorings are sometimes substituted for fruit, chocolate or other real foods, she ex plains. Caramel coloring can make white bread look like whole wheat bread. Flavor enhancers such as MSG, may suggest to the eater that a food contains more meat than it really does. And vitamins added to sugary, non-nutridous foods permit extrava gant nutritional claims, notes Hag gard. WELL HELP GET YOU THE MONEY TO KEEP OH GROWING. If you’re finishing up your first two years of college and you’ve decided to go on, to complete your education, but you don’t know where the money’s going to come from, here’s a possible solution. The Army College Fund. Here’s how it works. You qualify to train in a skill you’d like to learn, one that entitles you to the Army College Fund. Then each month you put aside some of your Army salary. Just like a savings account. Except the government matches your savings 5 for 1 or more. In two years, you could have $15,200 for college. Your Army Recruit er has a booklet that explains all about Army College Fund. Pick one up. Call 775-2199 U.S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION 1679 Briarcrest Drive Bryan, Texas 77801 ARMY. BEALLYOUCANBE.