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By Cindy Milton
Staff Writer
World War II veteran and distin
guished history professor Charles P.
Roland spoke to about 60 students
and faculty members about his war
experiences Tuesday night during a
presentation in Rudder sponsored
by the Institute of Military Sciences.
“This is an account of the career
and observations of a citizen soldier
in World War II,” Roland said. “I
was that soldier.
“I did nothing heroic in the war,
and just being there was in itself he
roic. I was there.”
Roland was drafted into the army
in 1942 at the age of 23 — only a
month after the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor. He had graduated
from Vanderbilt University in Ten
nessee a few years before, and he,
like most of the other draftees, knew
nothing about being a soldier.
He wa£ sent to Georgia for basic
training, which lasted about two
months.
“The feelings of all of us were a
mixture of shock, disbelief, patriotic
anger, excitment, anxiety, and
homesickness,” he said. “Most of us
were away from home for the First
time.
“At basic training we learned the
rules of soldiers . . . from the proper
way to salute to marching with arms
and field equipment.”
Roland felt the account of his ba
sic training would be incomplete
without tribute to his platoon ser
geant.
“He was a quintessential Georgia
cracker . . . wiry and quick of body
and mind,” Roland said. “He was a
superb soldier.”
He said his platoon sergeant was
eloquent and he has not forgotten
the experiences with him for over
forty years.
“I will always be grateful to him
for what he taught me about sol
diers,” he said.
After basic training, Roland went
to Ft. Benning, Ga., for officer train
ing. He was then sent, in November
1942, to Camp Van Dorn, Miss., as a
member of the junior officer cavalry
of the newly activated 99th Infintry
Division, AUS — Army of the
United States.
In the spring of 1944, the troops
were sent back to Georgia for more
training. By August troops were in
formed of their orders to Europe.
Roland was then sent to Belgium
at A&M
in WWII
in command of a troop truck con
voy. They moved to a terrain on the
Belgian-German border.
On the dawn of Dec. 16, Roland
faced his first combat when a col
umn of enemy soldiers attacked his
battalion command post. This was
the first and only time he ever per
sonally fired a weapon, he said.
“It was as if we were caught in a
slow motion nightmare of sound and
fury,” he said.
When the war in Germay ended,
Roland remained in Germany for
seven months. He came back to the
States and was discharged from the
Army in Dec. 1945.
“The war really changed my life
and the world,” he said.
Roland tours and gives his
speeches about war to places such as
West Point and the Army War Col
lege in Pennsylvania. He currently
teaches at the University of Ken
tucky with specializations in the Civil
War and history of the American
South.
“I did nothing heroic in the war, and just being there
was in itself heroic. I was there. ”
— Charles P. Roland, World War II veteran
Immigration officials
tell Texas employers
to expect citations
HARLINGEN (AP) — Immi
gration officials warned Rio
Grande Valley employers Tues
day the agency is ready to issue ci
tations for violations of the new
immigration law.
The employer sanctions provi
sion of the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986 is de
signed to discourage employers
from hiring illegal aliens.
Investigators are preparing
cases against some of the most fla
grant violators, said Roy Sutton,
assistant director for investiga
tions with the INS’ Harlingen
District, covering seven counties
at the southern tip of the state.
“We have a dozen or so here
we’re looking at,” Sutton said.
In its 13-state Southern Re
gion, the INS and Border Patrol
have issued six citations, all in
Texas, since Sept. 1, when the ci
tation period began, said the Bor
der Patrol’s Jerry Armstrong,
deputy chief patrol agent as
signed to the regional office in
Dallas.
Some offices, however, have
taken additional time to educate
employers about the new law.
“We have been kind of slow,
but we’re now in an enforcement
mode,” Armstrong said.
The law requires employers to
have a completed employment el
igibility form on file, known as
the Form 1-9, for all workers
hired after Nov. 6, 1986.
Citations, or warnings, will be
issued to first-time violators
through May 31, 1988. After that
date, full employer sanctions, in
cluding fines, will go into effect.
Sutton said employers pre
viously cited will be subject to
fines before next June.
“It would have to be flat non-
compliance,” Sutton said.
Doctoral study shows benefits of extracurricular activity
By Audrey Cardenas
Staff Writer
and
Mary Kay Mulvaney
Reporter
High school students participating in ex
tracurricular activities are more likely to
take tougher courses, have higher grades
and better attendance records than those
who don’t participate, a recent study of
3,500 youths shows.
The study was conducted by a Texas
A&M former student in response to House
Bill 72 — better known as tke “no pass, no
play” rule.
The rule, a Texas law passed in 1985,
prohibits students from participating in ex
tracurricular activity for a six-week grading
period if they fail any required courses.
The study was conducted by Kenneth W.
Patranella, who graduated from A&M in
1964. Patranella received his doctorate de
gree in physical and health education from
A&M in May 1987. Patranella now is serv
ing as assistant principal of Clark High
School in San Antonio.
He said he did the study because he was
curious about the effects of H.B. 72 on stu
dent behavior.
“Since the ‘no-pass, no-play rule’ has
been enacted, I wondered if participants
tended to avoid honors courses so they
wouldn’t be counted ineligible,” Patranella
said.
This study is the first of its type in Texas
because its focus encompasses all outside
activities, not just sports, he said.
John Chevrette, a professor of health
and physical education at A&M who mon
itored Patranella’s study, said the “no-pass,
no-play” issue is a timely one.
“I think the study was a very pertinent
study for this time,” Chevrette said. “A lot
of people on both sides of the bill are saying
that it’s good that students are participat
ing, but some say too much time is being
taken from school work.”
Patranella said his study found that male
and female students seem to do better when
they are involved in varying aspects of
school. All previous studies have dealt only
with males in athletics.
“I wanted to do a study that included
both males and females in all types of activ
ities,” Patranella said.
Students who participated in various ac
tivities — including music, art, drama and
student government — were chosen from
Clark and Holmes high schools, in the San
Antonio Northside Independent School
District. Both of the relatively small schools
had a student enrollment of 3,000 at the
time of the study.
An indiscriminate sample of ninth to
twelfth grade students who participated in
at least one extracurricular activity was
compared academically to a group of non
participant students. Each student from
both groups was matched according to sex,
grade level and race, Patranella said.
The study concluded that the grades of
students who participated in at least one ex
tracurricular activity were 6.8 points
higher, on a scale of 100, than non-partici
pants, he said.
The results also show that students who
participate in more than one activity, espe
cially activities involving leadership roles,
have better attendance records as well as
better grades, he said.
“Regardless of their grade level, male or
female, white or Hispanic, they all enjoyed
the same benefits from extracurricular ac
tivities,” Patranella said.
A&M Consolidated High School’s princi
pal, Mike Ogg, agreed with the results of
Patranella’s study.
“We find that same study to be true he
re,” Ogg said. “All of the kids here involved
in extracurricular activities have higher
grades than the normal population of stu
dents.”
Patranella said although difTerences be
tween extracurricular-activity participants
and non-participants are large, only slight
differences exist among the study’s demo
graphic subdivisions. He also said no differ
ences exist between sports activities and
non-athletic activities.
Despite the study’s results, Chevrette said
he doesn’t think House Bill 72 will be af
fected because of it.
“People have learned to live with the
bill,” he said. “People involved with passing
the House bill have become interested in
the study, but I don’t think it will change
the law or anything like that.”
Ogg, once an opponent of the law, said
the public has adapted to the rule and
doesn’t think the study will change it.
Patranella said he thinks his study will
promote others like it.
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