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Pentagon budget cuts will decrease
number of UNL ROTC scholarships
By Michael Ho
Staff Reporter
Budget cuts at the Pentagon are
making it tougher for ROTC cadets to
get scholarships, University of Ne
braska-Lincoln ROTC leaders said.
Lt. Col. Robert Jacobson of UNL’s
Army ROTC program said decreas
ing demand for young officers has led
to reductions in the number of schol
arships offered to Army ROTC stu
dents nationwide.
“We know the services will be cut
by 20 to 25 percent by 1995,” he said.
In anticipation of the cuts, the Army
is accepting about 6,000 officers per
year. In the past, Jacobson said, about
9,000 officers per year received
commissions. He added that ROTC
supplies about 70 percent of the Army’s
new officers.
Because it takes four years to get
through the program, Jacobson said,
ROTC officials must begin to pare
class sizes now. Otherwise, students
would have to be forced out.
‘‘So far we haven’t,” he said, “and
if we manage our numbers properly,
we won’t have that problem.”
Col. Daniel McKnight, chairman
of the UNL naval science program,
said he wasn’t reducing class sizes
but that requirements for scholarships
were more strictly enforced.
‘ ‘ Before, if they didn T meet it (the
requirement),” he said, “we’d give
them a second chance.” Now, he
said, many cadets will find that they
have only one shot at the scholar
ships.
Now, he said, many cadets will
find that they have only one shot at
the scholarships.
More than 1,600 scholarships are
handed out each year. By 1995,
McKnight said, the Navy hopes to cut
that number by about 500. That means
more competition for those who want
Navy money for school.
Side-load scholarships are awarded
to freshmen based on scholastic
achievement and military potential.
Before the cuts, he said, a fresh
man with a 3.0 grade point average
and at least one math course had an 80
to 85 percent chance of getting a
three-year scholarship.
Now, it’s not as automatic,
McKnight said. Navy ROTC officials
are looking at the difficulty of fresh
men course loads as well as their
grades.
Air Force ROTC is run differently
from the other programs, Col. Mi
chael Carr said. The Air Force pro
gram has no enrollment limits at the
campus level; UNL students are
compared with national averages
instead of other local cadets.
Although the program suffered a
setback in 1987, Carr said, Air Force
ROTC at UNL is now “stable” and
consistently receives excellent rat
ings in its inspections.
The program had been shut down
from January through May of 1987,
he said, and was restored with the
help of the chancellor and a U.S.
senator.
Nationwide, 50 Army ROTC pro
grams have been discontinued, Jacob
son said, but UNL is in little danger of
being cut off.
“The University of Nebraska in
the past has had an excellent pro
gram, and continues to have an excel
lent program,” he said.
No Navy ROTC programs have
been cut, but McKnight said a few arc
being looked at for possible reduction
or elimination. He said UNL’s pro
gram is “quite secure.”
The Air Force again is eyeing ROTC
detachments for removal, Carr said,
but this time UNL is in little danger of
being cut.
Three of 150 programs arc being
examined, he said, but there’s no
assurance any of them actually will
be discontinued.
Department of Defense cuts arc
hitting other local military programs
besides ROTC, but the changes arc
less dramatic.
Maj. Joseph Johnson, spokesman
for the Nebraska Department of the
Military, said no recruiting reduc
tions arc planned.
“The only difference,” he said,
4 4 is that we used to have an authoriza
tion to exceed our authorized strength,”
and that permission now is gone.
The Air National Guard used to
run typically at 104 to 105 percent of
standard size. The Air Guard will he
pared to 100 percent, Johnson said.
The Air Guard isn’t planning to
release any soldiers, he said. The
reductions will be handled by replac
ing retiring officers slower than usual
until the 100-pcrccnt level is attained.
No changes arc planned for the
Army National Guard, which cur
rently is running at 90 percent of
authorized size, Johnson said.
Army and Navy ROTC units still
arc recruiting at full speed. Both Jacob
son and McKnight agreed that strong
recruiting is the key to attracting quality
cadets, and neither expect the recruit
ing methods to change.
I Kerrey: Middle East goals clash
By Michael Ho
Staff Reporter
Differences between U.S. military
and political goals in the Persian Gulf
threaten long-term progress in the
Middle East, U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey
said at a press conference in the
Nebraska Union on Tuesday.
Kerrey said government officials
face a tough decision in determining
whether to invade Kuwait with Ameri
can forces stationed in Saudi Arabia.
He said President Bush’s original
decision to send troops to Saudi Ara
bia was “legitimate,” citing intelli
gence reports that indicated an Iraqi
invasion was imminent.
“No one else in the world could
mobilize quickly enough to get there,”
he said.
But he called a unilateral Ameri
can invasion of Kuwait “a very big
mistake,” saying it would lead to “a
considerable loss of life,” especially
on the Iraqi side.
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Kerrey
“You’re talking about a country
who, itself, has been held hostage by
Saddam Hussein,” he said.
Kerrey said the underlying prob
lem is a conflict between military and
political objectives.
The military objective, he said, is
to get Iraq out of Kuwait as quickly as
possible. This objective, taken alone,
would justify a unilateral invasion, he
said.
But he weighed that objective
against political goals such as “the
restoration of the legitimate govern
ment of Kuwait” and general stabil
ity in the Persian Gulf.
American forces would not help
stabilize the Gulf, Kerrey said, and
the goal of stability is “one that’s
never been achieved by an> Ameri
can forces in the past.”
He stressed that he didn't think the
United States was at war. However,
the Iraqi invasion “illustrates that the
potential for war is always there,” he
said.
“I think that diplomatic and eco
nomic sanctions will work,” he said,
adding that he had no specific time
table in mind.
“Like the president, I’m not in the
business of setting a deadline” for
peace, he said.
Minority advocate to be added
Davis selected to create position
By Sara Bauder Schott
Senior Reporter
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln
alumnus and former Nebraska full
back is busy deciding exactly what a
new minority affairs position at UNL
should involve.
Dick Davis will help develop a job
description and possibly a title for the
position, UNL Chancellor and NU
Interim President Martin Masscngalc
announced Aug. 25. Davis, a former
principal in the Omaha Public Schools
system and currently a director of
Administration and Government
Relations at the Northern Plains Natu
ral Gas Co. of Omaha, said the prob
lems minorities face on campus would
never change, although the intensity
of the problems vary.
“There’s always the same con
, cents,” he said. “People need to
belong; they need to feel successful.
People want to be able to survive.”
In assessing the way the new posi
tion would function on campus, Dav is
will talk to students as well as faculty
and administrators to find their ex
pectations for the position.
Masscngalc said the position was
being established to improve cultural
diversity and to create a positive
environment for minorities on cam
pus. He said the person who fills the
minority affairs position might func
tion to improve the recruiting of
minority students and faculty mem
bers.
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was making in the arc« wM ‘nga,c
Many major universufe?h?,nor,t,Cs
nonsuch as the one iJ C hdvcy P«si
lo create. he 10 Masscn8a,c wants
lion would be involved in both me
diation and development for minori
ties on campus. Mediation might
include helping a minority person who
was having problems with a campus
employer or group, he said.
In the area of development, the
university needs to recruit more mi
nority students and to challenge them
to greater involvement in college life,
Smith said.
More minority employees could
be brought to campus, he said, anil
could be promoted into areas where
they arc not traditionally found, such
as the Office of University Housing
or Caicei Planning and Placement
‘ ‘ Minorities can do those jobs, but
the number you’ll find is miniscule.
Smith said.
Herb Howe, associate to the chan
cellor, said Davis was selected to
assist the chancellor because he has
been a strong sup|K>rtcr of UNL. He
holds three degrees from UNL, in
cluding a doctorate in education.
Davis was largely responsible lor
getting a minority scholarship Pr''
gram established at UNL, Howe said
Howe said Davis probably would
have the job description finished ny
the end of October or the beginning ol
November. Once the job description
is decided, a job search will begm
Howe said.
