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Neo-patriotism fills academies ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U S. Naval Academy will lose 1,070 midshipmen to gradua tion Wednesday, but a "resurgence of patriotism” has guaranteed there will be no trouble finding replacements, an academy of ficial says. At a time when civilian colleges face declining enrollments, the Naval Academy will turn away about nine students for every one it accepts. Recruiters at the Navy, Air Force and Army academies say the image of the military has im proved over the past few years, thanks to new recruiting techniques and fading memories of the Vietnam war era. “The stigma of Vietnam is well behind us,” said Lt. Col. Larry Thacker, director of admis sions at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. For the third year in a row, there has been a sharp increase in the number of applicants at the U.S. Naval Academy. So far, about 13,500 young men and women have applied to enter the academy as midshipmen in 1983. Last year the number was 12,600. The year before it was 11,400. Officials at the Army and Air Force academies say their applications each have topped the 13,000 mark, up about 1,000 from a year ago. Why the difference between the military and civilian schools? “We began in the late ’70s a very ag gressive recruiting effort — marketing effort if you want to put it in business terms,” said Den nis Boxx, a spokesman at the Naval Academy. "We were at a low point in about 1980, with some 10,500 applications. At that point, the marketing and recruiting effort finally began to take effect and turn things around,” he said. Recruiting suffered during the Vietnam era, Boxx said but now “the pendulum is swinging the other way." Another reason for the boost is because “there is a resurgence of patriotism,” he said. “That may sound hokey, but we hear more and more midshipmen talking about service to country, duty, honor, those kinds of things,” he said. The recession also may play a role in seek ing a place in a military academy, where the students are paid. “It's a very definite advantage when the economy is like it is now,” says Capt. Charles Pope, an admissions officer at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. But Boxx believes the economy is not a major factor. He said many of the incoming freshmen at the Naval Academy have been of fered scholarships at other colleges. Rock charms hyper kids PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland nurse says rock music can calm hyperkinetic children. Fran Cripe, a nursing student at Oregon Health Sciences University, tested eight hyperkinetic boys between the ages of six and eight. She found that they were likely to sit and read or draw quietly when rock music was playing. When the music was off, the youngsters ran about and played more active games, she said. In general, rock music decreased the motor activity level of the boys, but it did not decrease the number of activities the youngsters participated in and it did not in crease their attention span. Cripe is a nursing teacher at Good Samaritan School of Nursing. She has a master’s degree in education and is working on a master's degree in nursing. The rock music Cripe recommends should be pop rock, but not acid or hard rock, and it should have no lyrics. “The important thing is a steady beat,” she said. MR TDM V NATURAL HAIR DESIGNS FOR MEN AND WOMEN Save $5 May Perm Special only *25 Re9 *jo 561 E. 13th Does not include haircut 485-4422 VWs - MERCEDES - BMWs DATSUN - TOYOTA - AUDI Reliable Service For Your Foreign Auto 342-2912 2025 Franklin Blvd. t\AH Witt Crtl/NCr & CO. 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