ROIC News Frank Deyo a business student here at Capitol Campus and also cross enrolled in the ROTC program at Dickinson College attended, along with cadets from all across the nation, the annual Mid-Winter ROA (Reserve Offi cer Association) Conference Feb. 20 thru 23. Some of the highlights includ ed tours of the White House, Pentagon and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The banquet was held Friday evening with guest speaker Vice President Gerald Ford. Throughout the tour the cadets were addressed by several prominient speakers such as Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Moorer and Congressman Daniel Flood from Pennsylvania. Frank and his wife Franceen are presently living in Elizabeth town and he will be graduate in June 1975. Frank is a former Green Beret and spent a year in Vietnam with the sth Special Forces. As for the ROTC program, Frank says he enjoys it and it gives him a chance to employ some of the business concepts he learns in the classroom. Frank feels the ROTC will always be an asset to him in the business world and he is looking forward to the experi ence he will receive in leading men as an officer in the Army. Of course the $12,000 a year starting salary doesn't look bad at this point either, Frank quietly admits. Think about an opportunity now available through the Miliary Science Department of Dickinson College! There is an Army ROTC program specifically designed for sophomores, who haven’t had any military or ROTC training. This program leads to becoming a Second Lieutenant in the Army, Army Reserves or Na tional Guard along with your baccalaureate degree. This year it’s for men only, but next year women may participate. Over this coming summer you attend a 6 week introductory course, conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky. After room, board, and travel costs you can plan on clearing about $5OO. The summer program is a ‘free trial offer’, there are absolutely no ROTC or active duty obligations. Several 2 year scholarships are always made available to those attending the camp. Any male college sophomore is eligible to apply for the summer program or the Army ROTC two-year program. The ‘Basic Camp’ is held from June 15th to August 2nd during this summer. You return to your campus in your junior year on a par with those who took military science courses as freshmen and sopho mores. Commitments do not begin until you ‘sign-up’, that is, enroll in Military Science courses in September 1974. By the way, in addition to the $5OO, even if you don’t get a scholarship you still get approximately $2500 spread over your junior and senior year. The program offers you the challenge of leading and moti vating your peers-and at a much earlier age than your contem poraries. It develops your self confidence, your will to succeed, and your self-understanding. It tests you physically and men tally. And it gives you a competitive edge when you launch your career-in the mili tary, or in civilian life. If you want to learn more about the program contact the Military Science Department at Dickinson College, Carlisle. Big Brother/Big Would you like to share a small part of your life with a child who needs you? Do you have three (3) hours a week to spend with a child who is in need of adult companionship? The County of Dauphin Child Care Service’s Big Brother/Big Sister Program is looking for unselfish people to become a ‘friend’ to a child. This is a slow-growing relationship through which you offer your capacity to be an understanding adult brother or sister. The children range in age from 4 to 18. They are in foster homes, child care institutions or in some other situation where they can benefit from additional one-to one contact with an adult...boys who have no strong male image to relate to; girls who need a woman’s individualized atten tion. They come from every where looking for an unselfish person to depend upon. It is not necessary to spend a lot of money because it might create hard feelings with your Little Brother’s or Little Sister’s family. What you offer instead is a trusting and consistent rela tionship. You, too, can receive some thing in return. You can learn to give and in time you will find you are getting more then you have offered. The tools of the trade have been mentioned: unselfishness, dependability and companion ship. It takes patience and understanding, too. Hey Mister! Hey Lady! Wanna be a Big Brother or Big Sister? Contact: Ms. Carol Furst County of Dauphin Child Care Service 17 North Front Street Harrisburg, Pa. 17101 Telephone:23B-9486 The Big Brother/Big Sister Program was started in 1970, Program is a volunteer organiza- and since that time has had tion in which adults over the age approximately 250 volunteers, of 18 provides a slow-growing The volunteers have come from one-to-one relationship with a all facets in the community. Washington, B.C. - A boycott of Japanese products has been called by American Conservation groups to force the Japanese government to halt the continuing slaughter of Whales by Japan’s huge Whaling Fleets “This total disregard for international opinion and the warnings of the IWC’s own scientists leaves conservationists with no recourse except taking actions against the Japanese,” explains Christine Stevens, .head of the Animal Welfare Institute, which is coordinating the boycot campaign. “Until the Japanese recognize their responsibility to save the whales from extinction, Americans should stop buying Japanese cars, motorcycles, televisions and cameras. ” Supporting the boycott campaign are the National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, Fund for Animals, Environmental Action, Defenders of Wildlife and Environmental Policy Center. Students groups throughout the United States have already enlisted in the boycott campaign. Further information about the Save the Whales Campaign can be obtained by writing to the Animal Welfare Institute, P.O. Box 3650, Washington D.C. 20007. The United States has declared all the great whales to be endangered species. All whaling has been banned and the importation of whale products has been prohibited. But the Japanese and Soviet whaling fleets are still decimating the remaining whale population. Of an original population of more than 4 million whales, only a few Sister Program child, ranlng in ages of 4 to 18, through companionship. This relationship is built with support from caseworkers from Child Care Service. Three hours a week is suggested. When a person contacts the Agency, an application form is sent. Upon its time for an interview is set up. Through this interview, the prospective volunteer learns about the program, the Agency, what is expected of him, and what he can expect from the child and the Agency. If the volunteer is approved and approves of the Program, a child is selected for him in reference to both their areas of interests and hobbies. The caseworker shares pertinent information with the volunteer with a stress on confidentiality. Information is also shared with the child and his family. The child and Big Brother/Big Sister are introduced to one another by the caseworker. After this time, the weekly contacts depends on the volun teer' and child’s schedules. Two group sessions for the volunteers are held throughout the year for the sharing of information. An annual picnic is held in June. The volunteer and caseworker should keep in regular contact with one another. The volunteer becomes part of a team in an effort of working with a child. The children are all involved with the Agency in some way. Many reasons may be given: family breakdowns; a child in placement; day care; etc. How ever, all these children are in the need of an adult relationship... boys who have no strong male image to relate to; gilrs who need a woman’s individualized atten tion. The Big Brother/Big Sister Help For Whales A Frustrating Fiasco hundred thousand exist today. Five species, including the great blue whale, the larges animal in history, have been virtually wiped out. The large remaining herds of fin whales and sperm whales ( the species in “Moby Dick”) are rapidly dwindling under the onslaughter of the whalers. The Japanese whaling fleet is now in the Antarctic, killing hundreds of whales each day. It is a savage, methodical warfare against the great, gentle creatures. The whale herds are sought out by airplanes and helicopters, then are tracked relentlessly by sonar and radar. COLLEGE STUDENTS POETRY ANTHOLOGY The NATIONAL POETRY PRESS announces its SPRING COMPETITION The dosing date for the submission of manuscriots by College Students is April 10 ANY STUDENT attending either junior or senior college is eligible to submit his verse. There is no limitation as to form or theme. Shorter works are pre ferred by the Board of Judges, because of space limitations. Each poem must be TYPED or PRINTED on a separate sheet, and must N^ ME f? d HOMF ADDRESS of the student, and the COLLEGE AuUnud as well. MANUSCRIPTS should be sent to the OFFICE OF THE PRESS NATIONAL POETRY PRESS 3210 Selby Avenue Los Angeles, Calif. 90034 The Right to Drink RIGHT’S ON! is a student organization dedicated to the notion that the hypocrisy which has dominated the formulation of policy concerning the right’s of 18 year old adults should be challenged and reformed. Specifically, our group can see no valid reason why a person who can fight in his nation’s defense, marry and raise a family, enter legal contracts, and vote in a presidential election (and all other elections), can not legally drink a glass of wine. We believe that, as in the case of voting rights, the liquor privilege is an idea whose time has unquestionably come. The duplicity of the current drinking regulations can be noted in three particular forms: First, as mentioned previously when a person may die for his country, and yet is not permitted to purchase an alcoholic beverage, no measure of eloquent rhetoric can adequately dent that the person is a victim of un-fair age discrimination. Second, when the situation exists in which five bordering states have granted drinking right’s to 18 year olds, one is led to believe that the only ones who have deluded with regard to the drinking issue, are the Harrisburg legislatore themselves. The present liquor policy gives substantial business and revenue, rightfully belonging to Pennsylvania, to New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia. In essence, 18 year old Pennsylvanian’s are drinking and, meanwhile, Leathers Appointed Director Dr. John L. Leathers, director of the Altoona Campus of The Pennsylvania State University, has been promoted to fill the newly-established post of Ad ministrative Director of the University’s Commonwealth Campus system. Dr. Leathers’ appointment was announced March 19th by President John W. Oswald, with the concurrence of Provost Russell E. Larson and Dr. Robert The lumbering, defenseless whales are pursued by high-speed chaser boats. They are blown up in agonizing death by gernade- tipped harpoons. Huge factory ships then rapidly process the whales into commercial products such as cosmetics, transmission oil and pet food. Pennsylvania is beset with budget problems from a dearth of funds. Third, and on a broader scale, many an anti-liquor advocate have cited the immaturity and hence, the inability of 18 year olds to handle liquor rights. Yet, in doing so they imply that all persons 21 or over have necessarily achieved that nebulous rank of “adulthood” where each person knows the difference between right and wrong, enough and too much, etc. (The daily newspaper tells us otherwise.) The question remains, “What is required to end the legal and social hypocrisy in the state of Pennsylvania?” It is the considered opinion of RIGHT’S ON! that the solution lies in a concerted effort, on the part of students, to inform Harrisburg that we are seriously concerned and anxious for the duplicity to end. Letters from student organizations and individual students themselves, are crucial elements of this awareness campaign. An effective youth or student lobby in Harrisburg is certainly another. Let us come together in a common effort to be recognized as the mature, intelligent, and capable citizens which, if the truth finally be realized, we certainly are... . For more information contact RIGHT’S ON, 336 Waring Rd. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 19117 (215) MIS-5-0573. “Pennsylvania, the Bicentennial State” ** * * G. Quinn, dean of Academic Instruction of the Common wealth Campuses, to whom Dr. Leathers will report. The new post was created by the Board of Trustees at the January meeting through con solidation of both academic and administrative responsibility for Commonwealth Campus opera tion in Dean Quinn’s office. The change becomes effective July 1 when Kenneth L. Holderman, vice president for Commonwealth Campuses, re tires from the University. Mr. Holderman has been in charge of Commonwealth Cam pus administration since 1959. During his tenure, the system has grown into an 18-campus network with 15,000 full-time students and 80,000 part-time and adult students. The Cam puses offer two-year terminal programs and the first two years of the baccalaureate program and are located throughout the Commonwealth.
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