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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, April 6, 1988
Speakers focus on preparation,
image of military prior to WWI
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By Tom Eikel
Staff Writer
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•DENOTES DOLBY STEREO
and well prepared military prior to
World War I was a topic of dis
cussion at the closing session of the
Military Studies Institute’s 1988
symposium Tuesday.
The two-day event titled “The
Great War, 1914-18,” began on
Monday and featured presentations
by several authors and professors of
military history from the United
States, Canada and Australia.
The symposium dealt with the his
torical significance of World War I.
Two presentations were given at
Tuesday’s session in Rudder.
The first, “The American Expedi
tionary Force Leaders’ Education
for War,” was given by Dr. Edward
Coffman from the University of
Wisconsin.
Coffman said most of the top U.S.
Army commanders of WWI were
well prepared for the major Euro
pean war in which they participated,
contrary to some of his colleagues’
beliefs.
He supported his thesis with ap
propriate examples, detailing the
means and methods by which U.S.
military officers who attended the
staff colleges at Fort Leavenworth
and the Army War College were ed
ucated.
This education was seen as part of
a growing trend in the United States
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lieves improved the professionalism
of such officers.
The second presentation, by Dr.
Paolo Coletta, who recently retired
from the U.S. Naval Academy, was
titled “The American Naval Leaders’
Preparation for War.”
Coletta’s discussion dealt primar
ily with Woodrow Wilson’s policies
toward WWI and their effect on the
Navy, and the contrasting ap
proaches to military preparedness
taken by the two top naval leaders of
the time.
MSI director Joseph G. Dawson,
who commented at the end of the
session, said Coletta showed Wilson’s
policies to be typical of a president
playing politics with the war and
navy departments.
Coletta described in detail the po
litical struggle to prepare U.S. naval
forces for the impending war in Eu
rope. On one side was Rear Admiral
Bradley Fiske pushing for a stronger
Navy, and on the other, Secretary of
the Navy Josephus Daniels, who
strongly enforced the administra
tion’s policy of “inaction.”
Coletta also suggested several les
sons to be learned from the experi
ences of the U.S. naval leaders’ pre
paration for World War I.
“First, American administration
leaders should seek the advice of
their (military) service heads in de
termining national policy,” he said.
“Two, with policy announced, serv-
will de
Edward Coffman, of the University of Wisconsin, speaks at the Mill
tary Sciences Institute symposium Tuesday.
ice leaders
levise ways to sup
port it in accordance with their own
professional expertise.
“Three, it would help if a naval
secretary is familiar with the technol
ogy and tradition of the Navy, rather
than being merely a political figure.
Four, in emergencies, proper ar
rangements should be made with
possible allies. Five, lacking policy di
rection, service leaders must drait
their own policies.
“If these disagree with tkt
the administration, the leaders
lions are to keep quiet or, in the
case of a Fiske, to speak theirdlrj
ences and resign.”
Coletta said that perhaps J
greatest lesson to come froc j
preparation for WWI was din
riegn jxjlicy, military policy anilJ
gistics requirements forward
Ik" coordinated, Coletta said.
Humana Seniors Association
sponsors safety symposium
By Lisabeth Rabun
Reporter
Stressing not going places alone
and having an awareness of sur
roundings were the primary mes
sages offered at the safety sympo
sium sponsored by the Humana
Seniors Association. The three-hour
program was held at the College Sta
tion Community Center Tuesday
morning.
Sarah Patterson, the director of
the program, is the adviser for the
association. The idea came to Patter
son when she received information
about a new intern with a black belt
in kudo. That information and re
cent local events helped her see the
need for the elderlys’ awareness of
self defense.
“The program grew as her (the in
tern’s) project because of the recent
assaults on local women,” Patterson,
a registered nurse, said.
As a senior community health ed
ucation major, Lisa Bartholomew is
the intern for the senior association.
The internship is part of her degree
requirement and she asked to work
with the Humana organization. A
project for her internship became
more obvious with the recent attacks
on older women.
“I have done martial arts in the
past and since we work with the el
derly, we decided this was needed,”
she said. “We’ve been working on it
for the last month.”
Helen Pritchard of Bryan at
tended the program out of concern
for her safety.
“I thought it was going to be inter
esting and I’m interested in protec
tion because of the recent prob
lems,” Pritchard said.
To start the program, Bob Rea, an
instructor from the Houston Bay
Area Judo Club, gave a demonstra
tion of simple martial arts tech
niques, like placing a finger under
the chin of the attacker to avoid be
ing carried.
“It is very difficult to hurt some
one with a strike,” Rea said. “I feel
that a push is much more effective.”
He stressed that the audience should
learn to push the attacker and had
everyone stand up to practice push
ing others away.
Participants were asked to bring a
spatula to the program. Rea taught
several tricks using a spatula as a
weapon. Fie also showed the group
how a large nail, a broomstick and a
cane can be used for defense.
One lady was overheard asking
another, “Could you stick a nail in
somebody?”
The response was “Yes, ma’am, I
could, if he was going to do some
thing to me.”
Rea stressed the need to stun the
attacker to have one or two extra sec
onds to get away, get to a phone or
get a weapon.
Two local police officers also
spoke. Ft. Bernard Kapella from the
College Station Police Department
talked about personal safety and
awareness to prevent sexual assault.
He said it is important to pay atten
tion to the surroundings and be
aware of what is going on at all
times.
Bryan Police Officer Tony Taylor
presented information about home
security.
“Home security is basically a
weakness that people just don’t un
derstand,” Taylor said. He talked
about the importance of deadbolt
locks for doors and track locks on
windows.
Taylor is also la member of the Se
curity Tasks Force on the A&rM cam
pus. He encouraged student organi
zations to have programs like this to
promote prevention of these crimes
for all ages. He said the job cannot
be done totally by the police.
The 35 members in the audience
included a couple came from Mad-
isonville. Lamar and Norma Piboin
are members of the Humana senior
citizens group and come to Bryan-
College Station often to shop. Even
though they are from a smaller
town, they came to the program.
“It can happen anywhere,”
Norma Piboin said.
Several businesses and organiza
tions from the community provided
informational displays and door
prizes. These included Brazos Valley
Lock and Key, Digitron Security
Corporation, Amway Home Prod
ucts and the Brazos Valley Rape Cri
sis Center. The Manor House also
donated a room for out-of-town
guests.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas must do a better job of
keeping minority students in school if it is to
meet challenges of the future, Secretary of State
and former A&M student Jack Rains told a
higher education conference Tuesday.
“We face literally a crisis,” Rains told about 250
educators and business people at the conference
focusing on the state’s changing population.
tract high-tech jobs, low-tech jobs, any kind of
jobs when you do not have a work force that can
read and write. That’s basic.”
“By the year 2000, half of our population in
this state under the age of 30 will be black or His
panic,” he said. “Take that fact and look at this
fact: Today, 45 percent of our Hispanic youth
and 35 percent of our black youth are dropping
out of high school.”
The drive to revitalize the state economy will
not work unless Texas addresses dropout and il
literacy rates, Rains said.
“We’re talking about attracting high-tech jobs,
new jobs for Texas,” he said. “But you can’t at-
Rains used himself as an example of what he
called the state’s great tradition of having an edu
cation that is available to all and opens the doors
for all.
After a public-school education in Port Ar
thur, Rains went on to earn a business degree at
Texas A&M University and a law degree at the
University of Houston.
“I’m extremely proud of that pedigree,” he
said. “This is all state-funded education.”
Rains praised A&M especially for “having
taken the time to invest in me as an individual,
and as a resource.”
Such investment is needed more now than
ever before, Rains and Hal Daugherty of El Paso
said. Daugherty is chairman of the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
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Texans without much formal educaiuHnierican
longer have oil-field jobs or similar emploft mer [ canf
to turn to, they both said. jitsand 1
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of the oil bubble,” Daugherty said. “Thc^pme toge
are no more.A lot of those high-paying.[jake a dif
blue-collar jobs are not going to come bad More tl
“We need to diversify. Critical toont^^eskknti;
our ability to motivate and enable ourbla^ e( j nesc j a
Hispanic students to complete their educator ^
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grams to encourage minorities to go lot®
Daugherty said.
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students to college campuses for thesumi# 1
Another program helps eighth-grade id
students choose the sort of courses that' (1
able them to go to college when theyp 1
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