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THE MICHIGAN DAIL1r
Wednesday, February 9, 1972
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PROTEST OVER: ..
ROTC enrollment expected up
as recruitment e fforts boosted
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campuses against the establish-
ment, the war, and the military"
during the years 1968 to 1970.
"ROTC came under attack during
this time and suffered a lot of
abuse," Shiller said.
Col. Samuel Hannah, Chairman
of the Navy program, pointed out
that ROTC scholarships had lost
their ability to compete finan-
cially with other scholarship pro-
grams which incur no obligations.
Hannah also thinks the dress codes
and haircut requirements of ROTC
began to discourage some stu-
dents.
Enrollment reduction has most
severely hit the University's Air
Force ROTC, threatening the con-
tinuation of the program on cam-
pus. AFROTC commissioned only
16 graduating officers last year
In order for a ROTC program to
be maintained by DOD, it must
graduate at least 15 officers per
year. "We're dangerously close to
the point of being nonviable,"
Grunzke said.
However, Air Force enrollment
has shown a rise in enrollment
from 76 in October 1970 to 83 this
fall, partly due to a new Air Force
program of enrolling women in
AFROT.
Nation ROTC enrollment fig-
ures also show a steep decline,
falling almost 70 per cent in the
past six years.
.In addition to reductions caused
by lack of student interest, 30 uni-
versities and colleges have elim-
inated ROTC from their curric-
alum. In addition, scores of schools
have dropped ROTC requirements
for non-ROTC students.
Although the Armed Forces are
presently in need of fewer officers
than was the case in the mid-six-
ties at the height of American
ground force involvement in In-
dochina, national officials have
expressed concern over ROTC's
decreased contribution of officers
for the future. The ROTC enroll-
ment dropoff is not critical today,
said General Melvin Goers, Na-
tional Army ROTC director, "but
it might be a problem" later on.
In an effort to attract students
Congress recently passed a $26
million legislative package raising
ROTC pay from $50 to $100 per
month. ROTC scholarship holders
and enlisted students (all juniors
and seniors) receive monthly pay
toward living expenses.
The bill also appropriated funds
for an increase in the number of
ROTC scholarships from a total
of 16,500 to 19,000. Under this bill,
ROTC pays tuition, lab fees, book
costs, .and $100 a month for each]
student receiving a scholarship.
All students receiving ROTC
scholarships sign a contract upon
entering the program which com-
mits them to three, four, or five
years of active service in the mili-
tary following graduation. Non-
scholarship students enlist before
entering their junior year.
Congress has also raised the sal-
aries of newly commissioned offi-
cers to a "pay scale that competes
with other jobs that college grad-
uates can get," Grunzke said.
In addition, all three Armed
Service branches have recently in-
itiated a two-year program by
which a student can complete all
the ROTC requirements during his
junior and senior years or in grad-
uate sechool. Officials hope this
program will help to compensate training program, mainly for lack
for the presently iow freshman en- of the proper uniforms and equip-
rollment. ment, Grunzke explained. Grunzke
Other efforts to increase ROTC said he expects "fruitful results
enrollment include a massive ad- from the program and expects to
vertising campaign and an in- expand the enrollment of women
crease in its advertising budget of here. "If there aren't any physical
over 100 per cent, boosting it to restraints, we are making a mis-
$1.4 million yearly, take in not using women for the
job," he said, pointing out that Air
New glossy advertising brochures Force tests have shown no differ-
promote ROTC with slogans and ence ii aptitude between women
posters, ranging from the Navy and men.
stand-by "Pride Runs Deep" to
stress on the usefullness of ROTC
training to business career aspir
ants: "Army ROTC Scholarship illiam s. to
ogram: A Great Way to Make
An Army booklet aimed at re-tf
cruiting enlisted cadets for service
in the Infantry features a cover in Black nationalist Robert Wil-
almost psychedelic lettering, an liams has agreed to clear himself
easy-to-read text filled with color of a contempt charge by testify-
photographs of Infantry officers ing again before the Senate in-
in action, and a two-page spread ternal security subcommittee, the
of an Infantryman holding a ma- Detroit Free Press reported yes-
chine gun silhoutted against a blue terday.
sundown sky. The committee, in exchange, has
Air Force ROTC has introduced asked the Justice Department to
another innovation in its attempt hold off prosecution of Williams
to turn the enrollment tide. Since for refusing to appear last sum-
last year, the AFROTC has re- mer.
cruited nine women. So far the Nevertheless, Williams and the
Air Force does not allow female committee have not agreed on
students to go into the flight when and how he will testify.
Fire again strikes grad
library; arson suspected
(Continued from Page 1) Stewart said that both the gradu-
poets John Ruskin and William ate and undergraduate libraries
Morris, described as "valuable and have abbreviated their schedules
indispensible to scholarship" by until further notice.
Rolland Stewart, associate direc- According to Stewart, this will
tor of University Libraries. facilitate "patrolling the premi-
University.dormitoriesclass-ses of the labraries more thor-
rooms, and other buildings haveoughly.
been similarly afflicted by the Stewart declined comment on
rash of fires. No monetary esti- possible leads in the case as well
mate of the rare books destroyed as "other preventive measures"
yesterday was given, although the library has taken.
damage in recent campus fires According to Fire Chief Arthur
has totaled about $5,000. Stauch, investigators have dis-
In an attempt to prevent other covered no concrete leads in any
blazes, University officials met of the fires.
with Ann Arbor Police Chief Wal- "Probably right now we're in-
ter Krasny and Fire Chief Arthur volved with more than one per-
Stauch Monday to discuss possible sone he said.
leads in the case. These are always tough cases,
unless someone can pin someone
Concerned especially about re- down," he added. "Someone al-
cent fires in student housing, Uni- most has to be caught red-hand-
versity officials have stressed that ed."
increased alertness on the part Of According to Krasny, "increased
security personnel and residents patrol units will be assigned to
of dormitories is necessary in pre- the campus area", although they
venting possible fires in the fu- will not be directly assigned to
ture. buildings themselves.
"The fact that someone sets "We have certain pieces of evi-
fires in a dormitory where hun- dence we're checking out," he
dreds of students are housed- is said, declining to elaborate on
cause for serious attention on our possible leads in the case.
part and on the part of city au-
thorities," said University Safety
Director Frederick Davids. N
According to John Feldkamp,
University housing director, a fire
which broke "out in a study room woman ' s Wc
in West .Quad Satilrday could
have been disastrous. Fortunately,
a security guard discovered the (Continued from Page 1)
fire located in a secluded corridor, family. "My brother told me that
he said. As it was, some furniture a military education is a good one
was burned, and the walls were and that it would be great if his
,e, asister could get in. But I thought
scorched." that it could never happen."
In response to the library fires, Schoen's brothers all considered
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Day Calendar
Physics Seminar: Y. P. Yao, "Report
on the Davis Meeting on High Energy
Reactions," 2038 Randall Lab, 11 am.
Anatomy Seminar: M. Mathews,
UCLA, "Electron Microscopy of Non-
neuronal Events Accompanying Thala-
mic Degeneration," Med. Sc. II, 1:10
pm.
Commission on Women: Homer
Heath Lounge, Mich. Union, 4 pm.
Grad Coffee Hour: East Conf. Rm.,
4th floor, Rackham, 4 pm.
Physics Colloquium:. D. Williams,
"Constructive Trends in Quatnum
Field Theory," P&A Colloq. Rm., 4 pm.
Botany - Microbiology Seminar: D.
Clewell, "Replication of a Bacterial
Plasmid," S. Lecture Hall, Med. Sci.
II, 3rd level, 4 pm.
Statistics Seminer: R. Chamberlain,
Cyphernetics Corp., 'Nonorthogonal
Analysis of Variance," 2443 Mason
Hall, 4 pm.
Journalism Lecture: Nicholas Van
Hoffman, columnist for the Washing-
ton Post, Rackham Lecture Hall, 4!10,
pm.
Speech Dept. Performance: Aristo-
phanes' "Plutus," :Arena Theatre,
Frieze Bldg., 4:10 pm.
Computing Center: "The FORTRAN
IV Programming Lang.-3," Nat. Sci.
Aud., 7:30 pm.
Hockey: Michigan vs. Michigan
State, Coliseum, 8 pm.
Music School: Univ. Symphony Or-
chestra, Hill Aud., 8 pm.
Dance Workshop: L. Berkley, Bar-
bour Studio, 8:30 pm.
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Community.
Ann Arbor Abortion Action Coali-
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SAB.
Housing Policy Committee meeting:
Feb. 10 Thurs. 3:00 PM until 5:00
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