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The North Texas Daily
Thursday, January 28, 1988 North Texas State University. Denton, Texas 71st Year No. 61
Air Force shoots down NT ROTC unit
By Stephen E. Hadeler
Staff Writer
The U.S. Air Force announced plans
Wednesday to close 30 of its detach-
ments nationwide, including NT’s Air
Force ROTC detachment and three
of its other detachments in Texas.
“I was shocked and rather disap-
pointed,” said Cadet 1st Lt. John Bravo
of NT’s ROTC detachment.
The decision to close the ROTC
detachment at NT will not only affect
students of NT but also students from
Southern Methodist University, the
University of Texas at Dallas, the Uni-
versity of Dallas and Texas Woman’s
University, all of which have students
taking classes in NT’s ROTC program.
Other Air Force ROTC detachments
in Texas scheduled to be closed are at
Southwest Texas State University, East
Texas State University and Baylor Uni-
versity. The Air Force ROTC detach-
ment at the University of Oklahoma will
also be closed.
Lt. Col. Michael Phillips said the
ROTC program at NT would be phased
out over an 18-month period. All juniors
and seniors now in the ROTC will be
able to complete the program.
However, he said, freshman and
sophomores will either have to transfer
to a university that has an ROTC de-
tachment, or they will have to drop out
of the program.
“I believe we have one of the strong-
est detachments in the Air Force’s
ROTC program,” Phillips said. "This
is the result of a congressionally man-
dated policy to cut both manpower and
budget costs. The Air Force plans to
cut 20,000 officers from it's ranks this
year alone. One of the ways to accom-
plish this is to reduce the number of
officers coming in.”
The choice to end NT’s ROTC pro-
gram is not a bad reflection on the
program or its cadets, he said, and NT
President A1 Hurley, who is a former
Air Force general, and university of-
ficials are making attempts to reverse
the Air Force’s decision.
“NT has a viable program that has
consistently exceeded its production
goals. More than 600 officers have been
trained in the program since it first began
in 1951. We now have 130 students
enrolled in the program,” Phillips said.
Peter Lane, executive assistant to the
chancellor and former Air Force colonel,
said “Wc arc going to do everything
we can to educate the Air Force how
important the ROTC unit is to NT.”
Lane said the program has increased
in size to 130 members, with 22 grad-
uating this spring, during the last three
years.
In addition the detachment has been
Kemp
involved in public service projects such
as the Wadley Blood Drives and the
United Way campaigns.
“The ROTC unit is an important part
of this university, and we want to keep
it here,” he said.
Bravo said, “I can see why they
did it the way things were before the
last two or three years. I thought the
ROTC was here to stay.”
Cadet Joel Booth said, “We realize
why the Air Force did it. I think it’s
just the economic standpoint. I’ve been
here for 4 years . We have a fine
program, the best in Texas, and I’m
not happy to see it go.
“However, the fight is not over yet
and we hope they well reverse the
decision,” Booth said.
Chris Peacock, assistant press sec-
retary to Senator Lloyd Bentsen, said
the senator had sent a letter protesting
the Air Force’s decision.
In his letter the senator said he was
troubled by the “disproportionate im-
pact” the decision will have on Texas.
“A state with a long and proud history
of military service, which has also
welcomed military activities,” Peacock
said.
Bentsen also said in his letter that it
is obvious the Air Force wants to keep
defense costs within “reasonable
bounds.”
Pneumonia persists
Writer waits for heart
By Dena Fenoglio
Daily Reporter
A.C. Greene, co-director of NT’s Center for Texas
Studies and noted Texas writer and critic, recently was
taken off the heart transplant list at St. Luke’s Episcopal
Hospital in Houston.
Greene qualifies for the heart transplant operation, but
he had to be taken off of the waiting list for the operation
until he recovers from pneumonia.
“Until his lungs clear completely and he gains more
strength, he will not be put back on the list,” said
Betty Greene, his wife.
She said her husband returned to St. Luke’s on Friday
for a check-up. The doctor was pleased that her husband’s
lungs were clearing, she said, but he told her that it
would be at least five weeks before her husband would
be put back on the transplant list.
She said physicians have suggested her husband write
a book about heart transplant surgery, but now he does
not have the strength to make notes.
Dr. James W. Lee, chairman of the English department,
said Greene was scheduled to teach a graduate course
about Texas writers this semester, but the course had to
be canceled because of Greene's illness.
Greene’s books include “Texas Sketches,” “The
Last Captive,” “Fifty Best Books on Texas,” “A
Persona] Country......fhe Santa Claus Bank Robbery”
it His developing pneumonia is very
unfortunate because it delays
everything.
—Betty Greene,
wife of A.C. Greene
and “Dallas: The Deciding Years.”
He is a member and former president of the Texas
Institute of Letters and a recipient of the institute’s
Dobie-Paisano fellowship.
Pneumonia is the latest medical complication for
Greene, who has cardiomyopia, a rare heart ailment that
can be treated only with a heart transplant.
“His developing pneumonia is very unfortunate
because it delays everything,” Betty Greene said. “We
had hoped the operation would be over by now.”
To help with expenses, the A.C. Greene Heart Trans-
plant Fund has been established by Greene’s friends,
including television journalist Jim Lehrer and Dallas
businessman Stanley Marcus.
“We are just grateful for anything people are able to
do,” Betty Greene said.
Donations should be mailed to First National Bank of
Park Cities, 6427 Hillcrest Ave., Dallas, Texas 75205.
Candidates
to address
SA forum
Two candidates in the 1988 presidential race are set to speak at NT next
month in what the Student Association president on Wednesday termed “NT’s
Super Thursday.”
Republican candidate Rep. Jack Kemp and Democratic candidate the Rev
Jesse Jackson will speak Thursday, Feb. 18 at NT as part of the North Texas
Regional Political Forum, said Donald Griswold, SA president and Plano senior.
The North Texas Regional Political Forum is an NT Student Association
project aimed at increasing students' political awareness, Griswold said. Although
featuring speeches from the candidates, the program also will bring together the
student governments of 13 colleges in the North Texas area for a regional student
government conference.
Jackson is scheduled to speak at II a m. with Kemp speaking at 7:30 p.m
All NT students and the public are encouraged to attend the speeches, which are
free of charge. Griswold said.
Doug Daugherty, Bay City junior and SA’s director of external affairs, headed
the organization’s project of getting the candidates to come to NT.
“There’s a potential audience of 150,000 eligible voting students at the forum
Candidates would be crazy to say no It’s no work for their people,” Daugherty
said.
All the presidential candidates of both parties will be in Dallas Feb. 18 and
19 for debates, and the Student Association sent forum invitations to all of the
candidates, Daugherty said.
“Kemp said "great" right away. Now with Jackson coming there's no way
anyone can say we’re biased to one party,” he said Because the forum's
program already has been planned, it is now closed to other candidates
Chris Demers NT Daily Staff
THIS OLD HOUSE—Kim Raines, Garland senior, and the design of this house. They are working on a project
Jesika Franks, Garland sophomore, try to determine for their architectural design class.
Police mourn murdered officer
NT Police unable to attend
By Scott Milder
Daily Reporter
The NT Police Department was
unable to send an official repre-
sentative to the memorial services of
slain Dallas police officer John Glenn
Chase because of staff limitations, NT
Police Chief Eric Jackson said Tues-
day.
“It would be nice to send people
down to Chase's funeral, but we have
such a small department it would
simply be impossible,” Jackson said.
“Some officers might attend (the
services) while off duty.
“This is the only occupation where
people are intentionally trying to kill
you,” he said. “Anytime this sort
of thing happens, we hope our officers
look at what they are doing and ap-
proach their job with a little more
caution. Two officers killed in the
it This is the only
occupation where people
are intentionally trying to
kill you.
—Eric Jackson,
NT police chief
same area in such a short period of
time really makes you think,”
Jackson said.
Jackson said Chase’s death proves
anyone can be a victim, not just people
in places other than the metroplex. “It
cannot get any more mundane than
what happened to officer Chase,”
he said.
Many people in Dallas showed their
support for the Dallas Police Depart-
ment on Monday and Tuesday by
driving with their headlights on.
“It is a fine idea for Dallas resi-
dents,” said Jackson. “It’s not man-
datory for our officers to do it, but
I’m sure some will. It is the indivi-
dual’s choice whether they want to
drive with the headlights on,” Jack-
son said.
Denton Police Chief Mike Jez said
Tuesday, “There were a number of
Denton police officers who attended
the service today but I'm not certain
of how many.”
The memorial service was closed-
casket and began at 11 a.m. Tuesday
More than 3.000 people including
family, friends, and represenatives
from 117 law enforcement agencies
attended the funeral.
Burial is scheduled for today in Des
Moines, Iowa, Chase’s hometown.
College Inn restaurant lab offers
students low-cost low-risk meals
By Melinda Hoffman
Staff Writer
NT hotel/motel and restaurant management students are getting hands-on
experience preparing and serving food at College Inn through a restaurant
management work program.
The program comprises three classes taught primarily in a lab format at
College Inn. One class deals with dining room service, another deals with
food production and the third teaches management. Two hours of lecture
each week and a ftve-hour-a-week lab constitute each class.
“It gives them actual hands-on experience so that they can gain management
skills,” Joanne Dahl, a member of the hotel/motel and restaurant mangement
faculty, said.
The first class is a sophomore level course called Dining Room Service
and Management. Students enrolled in this class bus tables and act as waiters.
Some have host/hostess duties or run the cash register, and some students
have management resopinsibilitu s. All duties are rotated among the students.
The second class is a junior leve. '"ourse called Quantity Food Production,
and all students taking it help prepare meals at College Inn. "These students
actually prepare the meals to be served," Dahl sdd.
She said students rotate through pantry, grill and fryer duty and are
responsible for all the different preparations and plating of the items.
In the process, students in the class are exposed to many of the machines
they might have to work around when they graduate. "They have the
opportunity to use all the commercial food service equipment,” Dahl said.
it These students actually prepare the meals to
be served. —Joanne Dahl,
restaurant management faculty
The third class is called Food and Beverage Operations Management anu
deals strictly with management, “it gives them the opportunity to deal
with other people and deal with the public," Dahl said.
Students in this class develop weekly meal themes, determine the cost of
each meal and develop a schedule for the food production class. Managers
are responsible for one part of the restaurant's operations and rotate duties.
Dahl said the purpose and aim of the work program is to give hotel/motel
and restaurant management students practical work experience, equip them
with the skills they will need to get a job in hotel or restaurant management
after graduation and to give them realistic ideas of what to expect.
“We want to give them an understanding of what it's like to work as a
manager," she said.
The College Inn restaurant opens Feb. 22. and will be open every Monday
and Wednesday until the end of April
Anyone wishing to purchase a season ticket, which covers nine meals,
can contact Dahl at 565-4144 or 565-2434 The cost is S34 for season
tickets, but tickets for a single meal can be purchased for $4.25 Each meal
includes three courses and a beverage. Tax is not charged.
What's Inside
PROFILING POTENTIAL U.S. PRESIDENTS—At the beginning
of the road to the presidency, Bruce Babbitt was thought of as the
most unlikely of the so-called “seven dwarfs" to be the representative
for the Democratic party in the national elections in November.
See Page 4.
GIVING THE GIFT OF MUSIC—David Vomholt.a retired Dallas
Symphony Orchestra piccolo player, donated a collection of his flutes
and piccolos to the NT School of Music during Friday evening's Ransom
Wilson master (lute class.
See Page 6
SLC FREE-FOR-ALL?—Southland Conference basketball squads
recently have started playing within their conference this month, and
if the non-conference results are an indicator of things to come, the
SLC looks to be up for grabs.
See Page 8.
Weather
High near 70.
Low in the mid-40s.
Southerly winds gusting from 15 to 25 mph
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