Thursday, September 4, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
ROTC gains recruits
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
Movies like "Top Gun" may be boost
ing enrollment in the Reserve Officer
Training Corps programs on campus,
according to the acting commander of
Navy ROTC on campus.
"The Navy has been getting some
exceptional press lately," said Lt. Col.
Lee White. The program also has been
helped by the presence of outstanding
athletes such as football's Napoleon
McCallum and basketball's David Rob
inson, who both recently competed for
the Naval Academy, White said.
That, along with President Reagan's
strong support for the military, has
helped increase enrollment in the Navy
program 25 percent over last year,
White said.
The same phenomenon also is affect
ing the other service programs on
campus.
"The enrollment in Army ROTC has
grown significantly since 1983," said
Lt. Col. Gary Wade, commander of Army
ROTC. In 1983 only 50 students enrolled
in the program. Now, he said, there are
about 200.
Although it is too early in the semes
ter to compile figures, Col. John Vick,
commander of Air Force ROTC and pro
fessor of aerospace studies, predicts
that "the numbers are up."
"I have seen a resurgence in patrio
tism," Vick said. "The negative aspects
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O A program requirement that
students have 100 hours of contact
with the hearing impaired early in their
programs.
O A reading class for the hearing
impaired.
O Student training and experience
in assessing skills of the hearing im
paired students.
Stoephen-Fisher said she attributes
the program's excellence in part to the
amount of time that went into develop
ing the program.
"We surveyed approximately 300
teachers of hearing-impaired students,
150 administrators of programs for the
hearing impaired, and 65 other teachers
of training programs asking them what
students need to know to be good edu
cators of hearing impaired students,"
she said.
Stoephen-Fisher also attributed the
program's success to the support of the
Barkley endowment arid the diverse
faculty that the students have to interact
with.
Although there is no national rank
ing among similar centers around the
country, George Propp, assistant pro
fessor in the department of Special
Education and Communication Disor
ders, said that with the exception of
Gallaudet University in Washington,
D.C., the only liberal arts college for
the deaf equipped to teach pre school
through the doctorate level, that UNL
probably has one of the best programs
preparing teachers for the hearing
impaired anywhere in the nation.
Students involved in the program
gain experience working with the hear
ing impaired at pradicuni sites Ideated
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for the Deaf as pre-student and student
teachers for the deaf.
Stoephen-Fisher said students in
the program also are introduced to the
media center which is nationally rec
ognized for its research and design of
structural material for the hearing
impaired.
The CED letter of evaluation also
cited "the vitality and enthusiasm of
faculty, students and administrators in
support of a very fine program for pre
paring teachers of the hearing im
paired." For anyone interested in learning
sign language, Propp hosts sign table, a
brown-bag luncheon every Wednesday
at noon, designed to get students
involved in learning sign language. For
more information call 472-2141.
toward the military have been oversha
dowed, and international events the
military has been in have shed good
light on them."
Generous financial benefits also have
attracted many students in need of
help. Scholarships available can pay
for tuition and books and providea sti
pend of $100 a month in the Navy
ROTC. Army ROTC also offers a scho
larship which pays 75 percent of a stu
dent's tuition.
Of course, students who have made a
commitment to any of the programs
must serve in the military after gradua
tion. Those in the Navy must serve four
years of active duty, followed by four
years of inactive reserve.
There are a variety of options for
those in the Army program, with three
or four-year stints available in either
the Army or the National Guard. Stu
dents get to that point only after mak
ing a definite commitment to the ser
vice in their junior year.
"There is no commitment for fresh
men or sophomores, so there is a lot of
attrition," Wade said.
Another thing on the rise is the
number of women in the various pro
grams. There are more women in this
year's freshmen Navy class than any
other year, Wade said. Eleven are
enrolled this fall, compared with five
last year, he said.
A variety of academic majors are
attracted to the ROTC program, ac
cording to Vick, although the Air Force
ROTC caters more toward students who
are technically oriented, such as those
in engineering.
"After their initial stints, they will
have excellent training," he said.
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