Grant
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aspects — such as cuts to K-12 —
are taken into consideration.
Other lobbying efforts have in
tensified at the University as stu
dent leaders work to restore fund
ing for the grant and other
need-based funding sources.
“A lot of work right now is cen
tered more around tuition, but im
plicit in that is the need for need
based grants,” said Adam Petkun,
state affairs coordinator for ASUO.
Petkun said an ASUO intern is
currently leading a “letter to the
editor” campaign in which stu
dents around Oregon write letters
to their local papers about the
need for grant funding in an effort
to increase public recognition of
the issue.
A postcard campaign is also being
organized where students can sign
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postcards in support of the grant.
The postcards will be taken to Salem
on May 5 for student lobby day.
“I don’t know whether or not the
numbers themselves will hold up,
but we’ve done so much work on
it,” Petkun said. “Just keeping up
the pressure on this should work.”
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ROTC
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After graduation, ROTC cadets
are given several choices of what
fields to enter based on their per
formance in the ROTC. Matthews
said his top two choices are engi
neering and transportation because
they are job skills he can use after his
service is up.
Cadets receive their commission
and are usually sent into four years
of active duty, followed by four years
of reserve duty.
However, the ROTC is a world
away from the Army. The mood is
lighter — for instance, cadets aren’t
punished if they break ranks or let
their arms sag during Physical Fit
ness Training, or PFT, which is held
only three times a week.
“We get a taste of what it’s like to
train,” Matthews said.
For PFT, cadets meet at the Stu
dent Recreation Center by 6:30
a.m., wearinggray Army T-shirts and
black Army shorts. Ten minutes lat
er, they line up in two platoons for
roll call.
On this particular Wednesday,
Matthews’ platoon performs guerril
la exercises in the Rec Center Mat
Room. The cadets warm up by doing
stretching exercises and jogging,
conducted by Wednesday’s leader,
cadet Sam Gross.
“Left arm, right arm, sit down,”
Gross says. “Left leg, right leg, roll
over. Left calf, right calf.”
After five sets of 26 push-ups for
men and 16 for women, and four sets
of 31 sit-ups, Gross orders cadets to
partner up for “guerrilla drills,”
which ROTC Col. John Sneed said
simulate battle situations — for in
stance, having to carry in injured
soldier.
In addition to PFT, cadets also at
tend military science and leadership
classes along with regular University
courses. During their freshman and
sophomore years, cadets learn basic
Army knowledge. By their junior year,
they must sign a contract to remain in
the program through graduation and
in the Army for eight years afterward.
During Matthews’ second year in
the program, he learned U.S. mili
tary history as well as how to shoot
an M-16 rifle, read a map, tie knots
and complete squad infantry tactics.
He will now be spending the rest of
his junior year and senior year tak
ing classes in individual leadership,
tactical proficiency, critical thinking
and battle drills.
Once per term, cadets travel to
Camp Rilea, near Seaside, for Field
Training Exercise — where they go
through real-life battle situations
"They are training to
do something we hope
they don't have to do"
John Sneed
ROTC Colonel
such as navigating with a map and
compass and having to move to at
tack a bunker by a certain time at a
certain grid coordinate.
The specialized training is meant
to train cadets for the Army, and
eventually combat — so cadets are
prepared for a possible call-up.
“I definitely didn’t join the Army to
win medals, but I know that if I was
faced with combat, I would be ready
for it,” Matthews said. “But it’s not
something I look forward to.”
Sneed said while no records are
kept to determine whether conflicts
such as the war in Iraq affect recruit
ment for the program, enrollment
appears to stay steady in times of
peace and war alike. ROTC leaders
talk with cadets about current issues
and hear their concerns, and Sneed
said he makes sure that cadets know
what they are getting themselves
into before they are contracted.
“They are training to do some
thing we hope they don’t have to do,”
he said.
Matthews said cadets’ opinions of
the war vary.
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“We know as much as the next
person about policy and national
security,” he said. “One thing I’ve
learned is that situations in the
world are very complex. So in the
end, I support the troops and their
sacrifice.”
But before ROTG cadets even
have a chance to go to war, they still
have to complete their education.
Matthews said he does not have a
problem managing a normal school
curriculum with the ROTG.
“It does seem kind of like another
aspect of school,” he said. “You’re still
learning, but it’s more hands-on. ”
He is also looking forward to gradu
ating, and said that even though col
lege is fun, he wants to continue grow
ing in his military education—this he
credits to the ROTG.
“It’s an opportunity to serve that
many people don’t have,” he said. “It
will definitely stretch you as a person. ”
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