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Quiz time. Besides Jane Fonda, what sex symbol of the '60s has become a health emblem of the '80s? Stumped? Try the water bed. Yes, that infamous fixture of hippie pads has been transformed in just two decades into an increasingly popular middle-class therapeutic aid. Kathleen Hetland and her husband Darwin of Osakis, Minn., both 56 and arthritis sufferers, sleep blissfully on a water mattress that their children sent them as a gift. Says she: "I absolutely love it, and I wouldn't know what to do without...
...Hetland joins his colleagues in calling the program's financial award "probably the biggest factor" in bringing students to ROTC. Of the 33 Harvard students currently enrolled, all but one are on scholarship, and many say they would not have entered the program without it. Ironically, the scholarship is also responsible for the program's most pressing roblem: the high drop-out rate of students. When a freshman accepts an Air Force ROTC scholarship he commits himself to four years of active duty in the service upon graduation. Up to the end of his sophomore year, however, he can break...
...accept a scholarship with no intention of entering the military. "We are trying to develop some guidelines for discerning whether a student is just doing this as his meal ticket," he says, adding, "If things continue like this we may have to make students commit themselves sooner." But Hetland says the drop-out rate today is no worse than it has ever been, and that the government is not losing money. "When a cadet gives up his scholarship, we simply give it to someone else as a two-or-three-year scholarship," he says, "It never actually leaves the program...
...fact, the cadets like "marching around" so much that when Hetland suggested to his students that they devise an alternative "Method for teaching leadership and followship" an overwhelming majority said they would rather stick with the traditional system. "I was really taken ,aback," Hetland says. "I'm dead set against drill myself-in the Air Force you just don't spend time marching around in fields...
Ironically, Hetland attributes the rising popularity of ROTC among college students today to the fact that the program is now less military than it has been in the past. "There has definitely been a trend in ROTC away from digging ditches and carrying guns," he says. "We don't drop people for push-ups anymore...