Collegian May 1, 1986 ROTC feels edge of Gramm-Rudman cuts (CPS)--Air Force ROTC students felt the sharp edge of the Gramm-Rudman ax this Spring when the service canceled 300 scholarships. The ROTC reductions, imposed at a time when campus military programs are enjoying renewed popularity, threaten the scholar ships the program uses to recruit students and restrict the kinds of schools at which students can use those scholarships, sources say. The Air Force, Navy and Army reported 30 percent increases in freshman enrollment at the end of last year--swelling their ranks to the highest levels since the military draft was suspended in 1973. Though one reason for ROTC's new popularity is a general rise in American patriotism, many students are attracted by generous scholarship programs that provide full tuition. But now Air Force scholarships now will be tougher to win and, in many cases, less generous, says Lt. Les Kodlick of the AFROTC headquarters. The Navy and Ar my, however, say that their pro grams will remain status quo for at least another semester. Comet viewers gather at Behrend cont'd from page 1 travelling close to the horizon. Then the real treat; seven people saw one of nature's smaller miracles. They beheld, for the se cond time in their lives, Halley's Comet. A Comet "Trekie" and four time veteran of Behrend's previous attempts to locate the Comet, Jack Thompson related some of the superstitions that peo ple harbored back in 1910. "I was five when saw it in northern Ohio. People were very superstitious. They were crying and praying. They thought the Comet would crash into the earth and burn it up," Thompson relayed. He also knew a great deal about the r im MIME= =II EMI 1•1111111 WM MI NM ME 1111111111 MM EMI MIMI I STUDENTS NEED GREEN? 'IC 07513593 A ' 4 NEW HOURS: Now taking donors from 8:30-5:30 Mon.-Fri. Plasmatec LTD. For information or an appointment I I . 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"In the past, a successful high school graduate would get a letter from the commander saying, `Congratulations, you've received an ROTC scholarship and you may go to the school of your choice,' says Kodlick. But no more. "Now the emphasis will be on high-quality, but not necessarily Comet's makeup, facts he attain ed at three Behrend lectures. "It's a million miles out. Made up of water, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide. The tail precedes it because solar wind pushes it forward." The senior citizens from the Sarah Reed Home saw a slide presentation earlier this year from a member of the Erie Planetarium. When Carol Pella of News 35, a PSU grad, interviewed them about their previous ex perience with comet she informed them about Behrend's Comet Series hosted and coordinated by Dr.'s Jircitano and Marande. VIE; ST.•T If W. 1.11 E c i 4 - p 4 Become A Plasma Donor! SI A PER DONATION NO PAID IN CASH AFTER EACH VISIT The 90-Minute Break education," high-cost Duke University, for example, will be hit hard by the new restric tions on the number of scholar ships and where students can spend them. Ninety percent of its Air Force cadets are on scholarship. the campus club report ROTC Barrett K. Parker Collegian Staff Writer On the 18, 19, and 20th of April the Reserve Of ficers Training Corps Cadets attended excercises at Fort Indiantown Gap, located about twenty-five minutes East of Harrisburg. For cadets in their first two years, this entailed a taste of barracks living. Training activites included a night compass course, live-firing a M-16 rifle, physical training, and even how to throw a hand grenade. Third year cadets ran night operations both nights. Ambushes, patrolling, and similar activities were ex ecuted. These were performed in preparation for the six week long "Advanced camp" held this summer at Fort Bragg, N.C. Seniors ran the show. Their tasks include teaching classes to other cadets, issuing and checking equip- Colleges join by accepting Pentagon funding cont'd from page this year. In an interview, AFSC resear cher Tom Conrad clarified that, while the Pentagon didn't actually spend $39.3 billion on research this year, the long-term contracts it awarded to schools and others ultimately would be worth that much over the following years. The Defense Department says its research budget this year is $1.024 billion--just 2.6 percent of what "Uncle Sam Goes To School" claims it is--and probably won't exceed $986 million for the next fiscal year. And the number of schools in volved in military research, rather than "skyrocketing," has remain ed about the same during the past five years, according to previous AFSC reports. "Uncle Sam Goes To School" is one of a slew of recent studies warning of a renaissance in war related research at colleges and universities. For instance, petitions to keep Strategic Defense Initiative research off campus have been signed by physics professors at most major engineering schools, with scientists in other disciplines joining the drive. And liberal arts scholars last year urged their schools to refuse Pentagon intelligence contracts for classified research on Africa and Latin America_ Students have yet to enter the debate in a large way. And many Kodlick At this time, the Air Force has no plans to close any campus detachments, but rumors of clos ings worry some smaller schools, says Lt. Randy Bliss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a top choice of ROTC cadets. "Some schools are aggressively m arms race of the recent reports seem to be aimed at educating them about the "campus-Pen - tagon connection." "We have to remember that the Pentagon is not a vast, neutral work-placement agency," Conrad says. "It's still military oriented. And people are starting to raise that issue." Students in particular, the Friends report says, should note "the DOD has stepped up con trols on its campus projects by ex cluding foreign students from some facilities and from certain research presentation conferences." But Conrad, the report's research director, could not specify any colleges where such bans on foreign students were in effect. The report's source of informa tion, a New York Times editorial, did mention Carnegie Mellon University in connection with DOD plans to prohibit foreign students from supercomputer facilities, Conrad says. But Braden Walter, dean of stu dent affairs at Carnegie Mellon, says no one has asked his school to restrict foreign students' access to such facilities. The government, which is fun ding the supercomputer centers, has asked other schools to impose such restrictions, says Brown's Wonderlick. The National Science Foundation, ' which distributes news 4 recruiting" new cadets, he says, trying to fill their ranks by playing up the non-scholarship advan tages of ROTC. Such recruiting usually phasizes that cadets have a guaranteed job after graduation, and that flying itself can be a thriling experience. ment, and other jobs which they are likely to en counter after their commissioning later this semester There were three separate competitions run at Fort Indiantown Gap. Of the ten Penn State campuses that had rifle teams, Behrend took first place. This included two perfect scores turned in by Lori Beals and Rich Wills. Our drill team took second place only to Universi ty Park, in a very close race. Behrend Cadet Don Bucksaw took first place in an individual drill competition. Throughout the weekend, the Penn-State Behrend cadets demonstrated to the entire Nittany Lion Brigade composed of all the commonwealth cam puses plus University Park that they are well trained and highly motivated. much federal research money, wants to deny foreign students ac cess to the supercomputer Brown shares with Princeton. "We're arguing this point," he says. Brown has yet to gain access to the Princeton computer because of such policy disputes. The Pentagon itself says its classified contracts also may stipulate that students from "non allied countries" be excluded from research teams. But "if it's not classified (research), we have no reason for excluding foreign students," says DOD spokesman Glenn Flood. "We can't get involved with monitoring students." Though the degree of escalation remains disputed, military research has grown during the past decade and may once again become a heated source of con flict on campus. Don't look now° Puzzle page 7
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