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Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 10-18-1984 The Guardian, October 18, 1984 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1984). The Guardian, October 18, 1984. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Daily Guardian 'Twenty years serving the students of Wright State University" Number 24, Volume XXI Thursday. October 18. 1S34 Bolinga Center hosts The Lady' of WDAO By KAREN RENEE HUNT information Monday thru- Friday," Associate Writer said Howell. The Bolinga Center hosted Edna "The Community service programs that Lady" Howell, Promotions and Con- air once a week are "Medical Report," tinuity Director of WDAO radio, the "How to Succeed in College," and the station that gives you more. meetings of many community Howell's speech focused on the role organizations. WDAO plays in the black community Howell said the controversial talk as a black format station. show, 'Back Page,'" gives the Howell spoke on several communi- community a chance to voice their ty events that the station participates opinion on issues on hand." in. These include the can food projects The station also awards a scholar- to help the needy during Christmas, a ship of S1000 a year to a black student radio-thon for the United Negro attending WSU. In addition the stai.on College Fund, and sponsorship of the also "offers small black businessmen Black Cultural Festival. discounts that do not have agents in The station also has a community sales," said Howell. GETTING A HEAOSTART- Some student* devilled 10 tale advantage of ihe warm October benefit fund to assist people in the WDAO is a locally owned compnay days and try out ihc proposed beer site. Pho*o by Mirk Wyjenbeek community."We also run Job Line which is the baby sister of the WAV I Broadcasting Corporation. When WDAO first aired on September 1. 1964, it was the first black FM format More turn to ROTC to pay tuitionstation. It s programming day lasted By RICK RINGO from noon until 4 p.m. Spatial Writer ROTC program for scholarships, but The Air Force program experienced In 1966, the station became the first rather for education and often plain a decline in enrollment this year. Cap- FM stereo black format to program As unemployment rises along with patriotism," Thorner said. tain Sharon Fiore, assistant professor for 24 hours per day. The 50 watt sta- tuition costs, more and more students This is evidenced in scholarship pro- of aerospace technology, explained, tion is presently celebrating its 20th are turning to military tuition aid pro- gram participation. Fifteen percent of "We really didn't get a chance to anniversary. grams, such as the Reserve Officer the Army cadet population is current- recruit this summer; that makes a big Howell started out as the recep- Training Corps (ROTC). ly enrolled in the scholarship program, difference." tionist at WDAO six years ago. After Wright State currently shelters Ar- compared to 20 percent for the Air Fiore explained that the Air Force three months, whe was promoted to my as well as Air Force ROTC pro- Force. can be a little more selective in choos- Director of Traffic and Public service. grams within its curriculum. Recruiting When asked about recruiting ing who they want in their program. She was then promoted to her present is the major form of attracting par- methods, Thorner replied, "We rely "We ask a simple question: Do they position. She has also neld a part-time ticipants for ROTC on WSU's cam- mostly on word of mouth. Sure, we of- want to be officers?" position as an announcer. pus, drawing students with various fer some great programs, but no one As employment opportunities Howell was named employee of the programs and tuition aid benefits. would know about them unless they decrease, enlistment in the armed ser- year for her dedication to the station. However, benefits and scholarships are had a chance to see what we are up vices often climbs. As the economy not all that the ROTC program has to to." looks increasingly better, enlistment offer. Elsewhere With heavy recruiting and the need drops dramatically. With this in mind. Compiled from UPI "We offer job security," said Ma- to fill such high tech specialties as President Reagan and Congress have jor Larry Thorner, commanding of- science and engineering, it often leaves put into the legislative process a re- Two hundred angry students boycotted a speech by conservative Senator Jesse Helms at ficer of the WSU Army ROTC people wondering if the officers releas- enactment of the G.L bill of 1945. This program. a predominately black college in Salisbury, ed into each branch are of the highest bill provided college benefits to any North Carolina. "He represents prejudice," "Most of our cadets are not in the quality needed for national security. veteran who wished to attend college. one student said. The bill was abolished in 1976 as enlistment grew and employment CINCINNATI-University of Cincinnati Presi- Military seeks new G.I. Bill dent Joseph Stegers said an audit revealed con- dropped due to the recession. flicts of interest and abuses in the way medical However, as the economy makes a school faculty physicians reimburse the school to attract university-bound steady comeback, the services have for facilities used in their private practices. By JONATHAN MeVtTY grow ever more complex. once again dropped in number. end JON SIMON Universities and the private sector "The G.l. bill has really little effect YOUNGSTOWN-Youngstown State Univer- sity is adding additional campus police officers WASHINGTON (SPS)--Even today, capture more and more of the young on our officer recruiting," explained the transition to work means a transi- and 40 students are patrolling the parking areas people the military needs, and the Thorner, "but maybe la.er--not now." in the wake of the stabbing and robbery of a tion to the military for one out of every whole age group from which recruits Even as more cadets are introduced professor July 31. five non-college males. By the end of are most urgently needed will decrease into the military way of life through this decade, the Figure will be one out a full 20 percent by 1987. ROTC programs, each branch agreed Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro warned students at of every two, according to the U.S. Moreover, despite a pay raise of 59 that the services of each officer they Armed Forces. Sacremento State in California not to "bank percent in the period since 1976, the are able to enlist are needed in the on empty promises'" offered by the Reagan Behind this fact stands what may be rate of attrition has risen to a military. administration. the most significant youth policy remarkable 40 percent. Each attrition Fiore and Thorner both agreed that debate of the decade: the question of costs the government $12,000. each cadet they have in their programs Bruce Merrifield of the Rockefeller Univer- sity in New York is the first American to win a new G.I. Bill. At the same time, motivation is is there for a specific purpose. They Since the abolition of the G.l. Bill a Nobel Prize this year. Merrifield won the dangerously low. want to learn or pursue a career in the 1984 award for chemistry. in 1976 (a bill that provided educa- As Jesse Jackson said recently about military, unlike the ROTC of 10 years tional aid to G.I.'s for years following the forces on the West German front, ago, which consisted mainly of Canada's GM auto workers have gone on World War II), the educational level "They are not there to defend their students avoiding the draft in an at- strike for the first time in 14 years. of Armed Forces recruits has sunk country; they are over there to have a tempt to finish their college education. dramatically. The technology they The Air Force is still searching for a miss- job." Each program graduated 17 officers ng crew member from a B-52-G bomber that must operate, however, continues to SM Ptge Seven last year. ^crashed into an Arizona mesa Tuesday night. 2 TM Ditty Guardian October 18, 1984 internationally speaking Marketing students must look at whole world, prof says •y MY HEIGHT Atuctti Wrtor business that it warrants studying it," to make the students feel welcome. just for that day. "Just as the astronauts look at the emphasized Dovel. He explained how While in Mexico, the problem of how While in London the students were world as a whole, so must students an item that sells well in the culture of entering the business field," said to get to the company was solved treated to dinner at a five star world the US might be a failure in a culture unexpectedly by that company's senior marketing professor Thomas Dovel. like Japan. renown restaurant at the cost of vice-president who offered to rent a another company they visited. Dovel, who acts as leader for tht One of the highlights of the trips is bus. "This isn't your normal trip to Marketing department sponsors trips the chance to meet with top excecutives After a meeting with the executives Wonder Bread, where you tour the to all over the world to study of international businesses in the international business.