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VOLUME LXV<br />

NUMBER 26<br />

Lexington<br />

<strong>May</strong> <strong>16</strong>, 1975<br />

Cincinnati<br />

Goes To<br />

Crenshaw<br />

John H. Crenshaw, Jr.<br />

Cadet John Crenshaw, from<br />

<strong>New</strong>port <strong>New</strong>s, <strong>Virginia</strong>, is a<br />

First Class biology major. He<br />

was the Regimental Commander<br />

during the 1974-75<br />

session, a Distinguished<br />

<strong>Military</strong> Student, a member of<br />

the Honor Court, and was<br />

selected for membership in<br />

Who's Who Among Student in<br />

American Colleges and<br />

Universities. He was also a<br />

Dean's List Student.<br />

Badgett<br />

Delivers<br />

Address<br />

Lee Douglas Badgett, a 1961<br />

graduate oftVMI and Rhodes<br />

Scholar, will address the<br />

graduating class at ttie <strong>Virginia</strong><br />

<strong>Military</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> at commencement<br />

exercises, Saturday,<br />

<strong>May</strong> 17. on page 3)<br />

Coleman<br />

To Lead<br />

Regiment<br />

(see story on page 3)<br />

• 1 i<br />

Cambodian<br />

Incident<br />

(see story on page 2)<br />

Summer<br />

Reading<br />

(see story on page 4)<br />

DanielJ. Darnell<br />

Parents, friends, relatives, and honored<br />

guests, welcome to the graduating exercises<br />

for the Class of 1975.1 am proud to be standing<br />

before you on this eventful day, but I am also<br />

saddened by the realization that this will be a<br />

final farewell. Adversity and obstacles placed<br />

in the path of progress always cause a group<br />

to feel a special type of kinship and<br />

brotherhood; when together they surmount or<br />

overcome them. To have reached this final<br />

stopping place in our cadetship signifies<br />

having weathered a storm totally alien to<br />

those who don't experience it.<br />

The graduates you see before you today<br />

should be recognized and well deserve to be<br />

recognized as a special group. As young high<br />

school graduates four years ago they were<br />

presented with opportunities and alternatives<br />

far more numerous than you as parents and<br />

relatives ever had. Society offered them a<br />

much more selective variety of roads to<br />

follow other than that of entering a military<br />

institution. The United States was saturated<br />

with colleges and universities offering a four<br />

year tenure completely unlike that which they<br />

chose to endure at V.M.L To enter V.M.L<br />

meant the sacrifice of a life which offered<br />

total freedom of movement and an unlimited<br />

exercise of free will. Consequently, the<br />

decision to enter the <strong>Institute</strong> signifies to me a<br />

moral character on the part of every cadet of<br />

the utmost integrity. Those who have<br />

1 remained possess the pride, honesty, and<br />

i strength of character so desperately needed<br />

and sought after by our society today.<br />

It has often been said and it is an<br />

established fact that V.M.I, is not a school<br />

which appeals to everyone. In fact, less than<br />

60 per cent of the original members of the<br />

Class of 1975 remain here today. Some could<br />

not meet academic standards. An unfortunate<br />

few were unable to adhere to the principles of<br />

the school's beloved Honor System. Others,<br />

however, could not tolerate a system which<br />

they found not to be military in the true sense<br />

of the word. In other words, V.M.I, lacks the<br />

air of professionalism it so desperately needs.<br />

Rather than allow a certain degree of selfdiscipline<br />

and self-development on the part of<br />

every cadet V.M.I, stifles and smothers each<br />

with overrestrictive rules and regulations.<br />

The resulting frustration invariably causes<br />

cadets to seriously question and ponder the<br />

actual purpose of the system. This is often the<br />

reason why many graduates leave with a<br />

bitter taste in their mouth. They unfortunately<br />

leave devoid of the exhileration<br />

which results from having completed a<br />

strenuous test simply because they feel this<br />

test has not been worthwhile nor has it been<br />

meaningful. The <strong>Institute</strong>'s desire to instill<br />

within every cadet a sense of honor, integrity,<br />

and perseverence is fundamentally sound,<br />

but the ends do not justify the means. V.M.I.'s<br />

priorities are at present misplaced and as a<br />

result misunderstood. Entirely too much<br />

emphasis is put upon controlling and<br />

manipulating the every move of cadets. On<br />

the average every cadet is checked at least<br />

ten times every day to insure that he is doing<br />

that which the <strong>Institute</strong> feels he should be<br />

doing. This is entirely too much and continued<br />

A Valediction:<br />

Daniel J. Darnell<br />

<strong>May</strong> 17, 1975<br />

parental actions on the part of the <strong>Institute</strong><br />

will only serve to further disillusion concerned<br />

members of the Corps.<br />

What I am trying to say was perhaps best<br />

expressed by General Robert E. Lee:<br />

As a general principle he told a young<br />

professor, "you should not force young<br />

men to do their duty, but let them do it<br />

voluntarily and thereby develop their<br />

characters. The great mistake of my life<br />

was taking a military <strong>edu</strong>cation." The code<br />

of the college, as Lee developed it, was<br />

positive though imprinted. The<br />

regulations, though few, were always<br />

enforced. "Make no needless rules, he<br />

admonished the faculty. And again, we<br />

• must never make a rule that we cannot<br />

enforce."<br />

As you can see. Lee's remarks clearly show<br />

that overly restrictive actions on the part of<br />

any school serve only to pervert the school's<br />

intended purpose. The goal of V.M.I, is to<br />

produce responsible, forthright graduates,<br />

yet the school unwittingly works in every way<br />

{wssible to insure that cadets don't develop<br />

such worthwhile traits of character on their<br />

own.<br />

I sincerely hope you have seen these<br />

remarks in a light which truly reflects that<br />

which I have attempted to say and do. My<br />

intentions are in every way honorable as I<br />

have attempted to offer constructive and<br />

valid criticism. I don't view this occasion as<br />

an opportunity to release pent up frustrations<br />

and emotions. Rather it is an opportune time<br />

to express those feelings and attitudes<br />

developed by the members of the Qass of<br />

1975. It is a leave taking and a final farewell to<br />

the members of my class who chose along<br />

with me to attend V.M.I, in order to expand<br />

their intellectual and <strong>edu</strong>cational horizons.<br />

Looking at them I can recall those initial<br />

days long ago when we entered as a group of<br />

enthusiastic, optimistic high school graduates<br />

only vaguely aware of the obstacles the <strong>Institute</strong><br />

would have to offer. These past four<br />

years have been ones of frustration and<br />

discouragement as we have mutually striven<br />

to overcome our own imperfections as well as<br />

those of the <strong>Institute</strong>.<br />

These experiences, however, will enable us<br />

to graduate secure in the knowledge that our<br />

diplomas are not symbolic documents. They<br />

are statements attesting to the fact that we<br />

have endured a system which demands the<br />

utmost from every man in patience, perseverence,<br />

and empathy.<br />

This is why I say I am a bit apprehensive<br />

and saddened by the realization that I am<br />

addressing my classmates for the last time. I<br />

feel a special kinship with them all as a result<br />

of past involvement in activities of an<br />

academic, military, and athletic nature. I<br />

think of them not as fellow students or as comarticulates.<br />

I think of them as brothers. I<br />

once had 375 classmates back in those early<br />

days four years ago. Today I have 225<br />

brothers, brothers who will be the most<br />

revered and well remembered acquaintances<br />

my life.<br />

Sheffield<br />

Receives<br />

1st Jackson-<br />

Hope<br />

John W. Sheffield, III<br />

The First<br />

Jackson-Hope Medal for highest<br />

attainment in scholarship: John<br />

W. Sheffield, III-<br />

Conte Wins<br />

2nd Jackson-<br />

Hope<br />

Douglas R. Conte<br />

The Second<br />

Jackson-Hope Medal for second<br />

highest attainment in<br />

scholarship: Douglas R. Conte;<br />

Bottom & Co.<br />

Finals '75<br />

Reviewed<br />

The events on Thursday night<br />

begin at 2100 hours with a<br />

concert presented by the VMI<br />

Glee Club. Following the Glee<br />

Club concert there will be a<br />

fireworks display on the VMI<br />

parade ground at 2130 hours.<br />

The dance on Thursday night<br />

will feature the "Gas House<br />

Gang," a well-known dance<br />

band that plays at such places<br />

as the King's Inn in Roanoke,<br />

(continued on page 3)


<strong>Page</strong> 2, The VMI Cadet, <strong>May</strong> <strong>16</strong>. 1»7$<br />

Opinion <strong>Page</strong><br />

•'Whore nipn have Ihp habit of liberty, the press will continue to be the fourth estate: the<br />

\ iKilant guardian of the rights of the ordinary citiien.".. .Sir Winston Churchill.<br />

TTie Vietnam war is over. The Americans are gone<br />

and the Communists are in charge. Hie war seems to<br />

now be a part of our history even while the consequences<br />

are still with us. It is hard to imagine a<br />

Vietnam without war and I imagine that it will take<br />

some time for the idea to sink in with a people who<br />

seem to take war as a daily fact of life.<br />

It is hard to recall the bitter fights and feelings<br />

Vietnam caused not so many years ago in this nation. I<br />

remember Le<strong>May</strong>'s suggestion that "we bomb them<br />

back into the stone age" being countered by the antiwar<br />

chants of "Hell no, we won't go." Even now these<br />

two views have not be^n reconciled.<br />

America's leaving Vietnam is much different from<br />

France's leaving Vietnam. There is some<br />

disillusionment in this country but I doubt it is equal to<br />

the feelings the French lieutenants from St. Cyr must<br />

have felt when the Viet Minh entered Hanoi. Also, the<br />

United States has none of the feelings aroused that the<br />

French did when, after the fall of Dien Bioi Phu was<br />

announced in the French Senate, the Communists sang<br />

the International in the Halls of the Assembly.<br />

Even as we leave Vietnam we find ourselves involved<br />

in another Asian struggle in Cambodia. This<br />

time, however, our intervention is forced upon us by<br />

the seizure of an American vessel. War is unpleasant to<br />

speak of, in the mildest of terms, and even now I<br />

believe this nation to be a nation of peace. Yet, there<br />

comes a time when we must look at a situation and<br />

realize that force is the only answer. Requests to<br />

release American property has been met with scorn<br />

and it seems that only brute strength will achieve<br />

American safety.<br />

Hopefully, America's gaining the ship's release will<br />

close the issue. No one hopes otherwise, particularly<br />

those who did the fitting. America is, in fact, bemg<br />

tested. We are being asked will we allow Americans to<br />

be manipulated when there is no cause or whether they<br />

will be left alone. The answ r is difficult and at this<br />

time we can only hope this affair will be only that —<br />

one isolated affair.<br />

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this academic year at $6.50 for 26 issues.<br />

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TO THE 1975 COLLEGE GRADUATES:<br />

President Eisenhower once said that <strong>edu</strong>cation is not only<br />

the means for earning a living, but for enlarging life. His<br />

words are especially appropriate for those who complete<br />

college. Your generation's candor, sensitivity and desire<br />

for creative involvement are heartening signs that you will<br />

be doing more than just earning a living.<br />

You are graduating in a particularly difficult year. You<br />

will be faced with many uncertainities. But the opportunities<br />

that await you are even greater than the challenges. It will<br />

indeed be within your grasp to enlarge and enrich life in our<br />

society. As you make the decisions that will shape your -<br />

course and that of your country, I hope you will keep in mind<br />

that one person can make a difference.<br />

Times have changed greatly since I went to college. But<br />

looking back on those days in the context of today's world, I<br />

know that the same optimism and hope I shared with my<br />

classmates is very much alive in you today. I want you to<br />

know how much I admire your enthusiasm and determination,<br />

and how convinced I am that you will make a difference for<br />

Ame rica.<br />

I wish each of you the satisfaction that comes from doing your<br />

best at something you believe in.<br />

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<strong>New</strong> System<br />

THE TRANSITION<br />

The Class of 1976 has now<br />

become the First Class, and has<br />

been given the responsibility of<br />

running barracks. It seems as if<br />

the time would never arrive.<br />

But now we are faced with a<br />

great challenge, possibly<br />

greater than many other<br />

classes before us have had to<br />

face. Now we must establish a<br />

ratline that will work and be<br />

enforced, not only by the First<br />

aass, but by the Third and<br />

Second classes as well. We also<br />

must work to build a class<br />

system that will last and will be<br />

meaningful to everyone.<br />

I feel that the Class of 1976 is<br />

more united than any other<br />

class has been in the past two<br />

years and we have promising<br />

leaders emerging. We have a<br />

potentially great future, and I<br />

hope that the class will be able<br />

to set some precedents for other<br />

classes in the future to follow.<br />

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Published Friday afternoon. Entered as second class matter September<br />

19,1946 at the Post Office in, Lexington. <strong>Virginia</strong>, under the<br />

Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription,!$6.50 out of barracks. $5.00 In<br />

barracks. Address: Box 7, VMI Lexlngtoh, <strong>Virginia</strong> 24450.<br />

MEMBER<br />

<strong>Virginia</strong> Intercollegiate Press Association<br />

Associated Collegiate Press<br />

Managing Editor<br />

Edward R. Crews<br />

Junior Editors<br />

Chris Manno<br />

Tim Mishi(ofsi(i<br />

Photographers<br />

Bill Danzelsen<br />

EdItor-ln-Chlef<br />

RobertJ. Kern<br />

Editorial Editor<br />

Tad Dodge<br />

Photography Editor<br />

Bill Danzelsen<br />

Columnists<br />

Keith Dickson<br />

Paul Spencer<br />

Circulation Manager<br />

Clyde Furr<br />

Business Manager<br />

T. Scott Lloyd<br />

Cartoonists<br />

Chris AAanno<br />

AAII(e LInaberry<br />

Simon Radomsi^yi<br />

Copy Editor ^<br />

Mike Dietrick


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(continued from page 1)<br />

Lee Badgett<br />

Commencement<br />

Speaker<br />

Lee Douglas Badgett<br />

Badgett, a major in the U. S.<br />

Air Force who is assigned to the<br />

Office of the Secretary of<br />

Defense, was Regimental<br />

Commander of the VMI Corps<br />

of Cadets in 1961, an<br />

Academically Distinguished<br />

Graduate and winner of the<br />

Cincinnati Medal, vice<br />

president of his class, and cocaptain<br />

and starting center of<br />

the 1960 Southern Conference<br />

champion football team.<br />

THE ALEXANDER<br />

WITHROW HOUSE<br />

3 WEST WASHINGTON<br />

STREET<br />

A restored historic<br />

landmark with five periodfurnished<br />

guest suites. A<br />

different experience in<br />

overnight hospitality for<br />

those who love fine things.<br />

Students may make<br />

reservations for their<br />

parents and tour the house<br />

from 10 to 2 Tuesday<br />

thrbugh Saturday or write:<br />

Mrs. Harriet Thomas.<br />

He will deliver his address at<br />

10 a.m. in front of Preston<br />

Library. Major General<br />

Richard L. Irby, completing his<br />

fourth year as Superintendent<br />

of VMI, will then confer degrees<br />

upon the graduating class.<br />

Three general officers will<br />

officiate at the commissioning<br />

ceremonies. The oath of office<br />

will be administered to<br />

graduating first classmen by<br />

Brig. Gen. Robert D. Stevenson,<br />

deputy director of military<br />

personnel management, Office<br />

of the Deputy Chief of Staff for<br />

Personnel, U. S. Army; Maj.<br />

Gen. James S. Murphy, commander<br />

of the 20th North<br />

American Air Defense Command-Continental<br />

Air Defense<br />

Command, Fort Lee Air Force<br />

Station, Va.; and Brig. Gen.<br />

Maurice C. Ashley, a member<br />

of the VMI Qass of 1946, deputy<br />

for <strong>edu</strong>cation-director.<br />

Education Center, Marine<br />

Corps Development and<br />

Education Command, Quantico,<br />

Va.<br />

IDYL '75<br />

The season changed two hours ago. Will my life change as well?<br />

This is a time for resolutions, revolutions. The animals are going<br />

wild. I must have seen ten rabbits in as many minutes. Baltimore<br />

orioles are here; brown thrashers seem to be nesting down by Tinker<br />

Creek across the road. The coot is still around, big as a llianksgiving<br />

turkey, and as careless; it doesn't even glance at a barking dog.<br />

Annie Dillard, from<br />

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<br />

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WHOLE SOLES and<br />

LADIES WORK<br />

my specialty<br />

LEXINGTON<br />

SHOE<br />

HOSPITAL<br />

Expert Shoe<br />

Rebuilding<br />

mzco<br />

Richmond Engineering Company, Inc.<br />

Corporate Headquarters<br />

P.O. Box 25189<br />

Richmond, <strong>Virginia</strong> 23260<br />

Phone: 804/644-2611<br />

RECO is also:<br />

RECOConstmctom<br />

RECON^toon<br />

RECO NorthCaroNna<br />

RECO PIpaFabrlcators<br />

RECO SouthCarollna<br />

RECOlHcoto<br />

Products: Process equipment. P^ressure<br />

vewels. columns, towers, tanks, heat exchan^efs.<br />

piping. rubt)er lining, metallizing.<br />

Good Luck Team<br />

Dance - (from page 1)<br />

Uniform for the dance will be<br />

formal. The dance will b^in at<br />

2100 and end at 2400 hours.<br />

The band on Friday night is<br />

"Bottom and Company," a<br />

nationally known dance band<br />

from Nashville, Tennessee.<br />

This band has cut records<br />

on the Motown label. Their<br />

latest hit record is "You're Mv<br />

Life." The uniform for this<br />

dance is also formal. The dance<br />

will begin at 2200 and end at 0100<br />

hours.<br />

Hop privileges are as follows:<br />

First Class—BRC on Thursday<br />

night and traditional<br />

"civilian" privileges on Friday<br />

night.<br />

Second Class—0330 on both<br />

nights.<br />

The VMI Cadet <strong>May</strong> <strong>16</strong>, 1975, <strong>Page</strong> 3<br />

Third Class—0300 on both<br />

nights.<br />

Fourth Class—0230 on both<br />

nights.<br />

Dine-with-date will be in<br />

effect for both nights.<br />

Something new added to the<br />

dances will be a refreshment<br />

area located outside in<br />

Memorial Gardens.<br />

J. C. G)leman Heads Makeovers<br />

' J. C. Coleman<br />

Regimental Commander '75-'76<br />

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And Adioiro Tho<br />

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Our fast growfing church is activdy<br />

tMking •nvironm«nt-ooncieut<br />

iMw ministcn who bdicv*<br />

whet Mmm: Man should tx<br />

ist in harmony with nature. Wa<br />

ara a non-structurad faith, undanominational,<br />

with no traditional<br />

doctrina or dogma. Banafits for<br />

ministars ara:<br />

1. Car EmMam and Pockat<br />

I.D.<br />

2. Raducad ratas from many<br />

hotals, motats, rastaurants,<br />

car rantal agancias, atc<<br />

Our directory lisia ovar<br />

1,000 prastiga aataMishmants<br />

axtanding on automatic<br />

cash discount.<br />

3. Perform marriages, beptisms,<br />

funerals and all other<br />

ministeriel functions.<br />

4. Start your own church and<br />

apply for exemption from<br />

property and other taxes.<br />

Enclose a free-will donetion for<br />

the minister's credentiels and pocket<br />

license. Your ordination is<br />

racogniied in all 50 states and<br />

most foreign countries. Church<br />

of Conservetion. Box 375, Mary<br />

HEADQUARTERS<br />

VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE<br />

Lexington, <strong>Virginia</strong><br />

GENERAL ORDERS) 9 <strong>May</strong> 1975<br />

NUMBER 30) APPOINTMENTS IN REGIMENT OF CADETS<br />

All appointments of officers and non-comnlssloned officers 1n the Regiment<br />

of Cadets now In effect will be revoked after graduation exercises on 17 <strong>May</strong><br />

1975.<br />

TO BE CADET CAPTAINS<br />

1 COLEMAN, J. C. Regimental Commander<br />

2 TATE, M. G. Regimental Executive Officer<br />

3 JOHNSON. J. P. Conmander First Battalion<br />

4 ASHTON, D. F. Connander Second Battalion<br />

5 KENEALLY, R. J. Conmander, Company C<br />

6 LaGRONE, W. R. Commander, Company D<br />

7 TURLIP, T. J. Conmander, Company A<br />

8 WRENN, L. R., Ill Conmander, Band Company<br />

9 DODGE. H. T.. Jr. Conmander, Company B<br />

10 FIELDER, L. 0. Conmander, Company E<br />

n TUDAY, C. E. Commander, Company F<br />

12 SWANK, M. G.<br />

Regimental S-1<br />

13 McATEER, J.J., III Regimental S-3<br />

14 TOTARO, J.A. Regimental S-4<br />

15 WILLIAMS. R. A. Regimental S-5<br />

TONEY, W. H., Jr.<br />

WALSH. R. J.<br />

RADTKE. R. L.<br />

ARDAN, I. N.M.<br />

CREWS, E. R.<br />

CAMDEN. M. L.<br />

BHATTA, W. K.<br />

OPEL, C. G.<br />

TO BE CADET FIRST LIEUTENANTS<br />

Company C<br />

Company 0<br />

Company A<br />

Band Company<br />

Company B<br />

Company E<br />

Company F<br />

1st Bn S-1<br />

TO BE CADET SECOND LIEUTENANTS<br />

9 GABRIEL, PH<br />

10 WILLIAMS, K. D.<br />

11 OORSEY, J. L.<br />

12 VARNEY, G. C.<br />

13 LUCADO, F. G., Jr.<br />

14 COX. R. E.. Jr.<br />

15 WEST, D. F.<br />

2nd Bn S-1<br />

1st Bn S-3<br />

2nd Bn S-3<br />

1st Bn S-4<br />

2nd Bn S-4<br />

1st Bn S-5<br />

2nd Bn S-5<br />

1 RWOS, R. Company C 15 JONES. G. D. Company C<br />

2 BURNEnE,O.L..III Company 0 <strong>16</strong> HELMS, B. D. Company D<br />

3 MINER, L. S. Company A 17 KERN. R. J. Company A<br />

4 ESTIS, F. L. Band Company 18 BRADSHAW. H. L. Band Company<br />

5 RIVERA, D. J. Company B 19 KEEN. C. M., Ill Company B<br />

6 CURLE, H. A., Jr. Company E 20 MOODY, T. C., Jr. Company B<br />

7 MOn, J. R., Jr. Company F 21 aASS, R. W. Company B<br />

B CWMUSE, 0. L. Company C 22 DELrSIO, J. A. Company C<br />

9 ROBERTS, C.C., Jr. Company D 23 JOHNSON, 0. B. Company D<br />

10 BEAZLEY, R. A. Company A 24 MARTINO, M. J. Company A<br />

11 MARTIN, J. K. Band Company 25 CONLEY, M. G. Band Company<br />

12 WILLIAMS, M. L.,Jr.Company B 26 MULLEN, W. G., Jr. Company B<br />

.13 MCCARTHY,J.A.,Jr. Company E 27 GROSS, M. J. Company E<br />

14 HEAL, W.D..III Company F 28 WHITE, T. A. Company F<br />

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Summer<br />

Reading List<br />

The Summer Reading Committee, formed of the faculty from the<br />

various curricula, has published a list of books as suggested reading<br />

for the summer of 1975 (they may also be read during the following<br />

year). The committee stresses the fact that the books are not<br />

mandatory; they are only suggested.<br />

The intention of the committee, chaired by Colonel Arthur C.<br />

Taylor, Jr., is to offer a group of books which most students would<br />

not themselves have discovered without guidance and which will<br />

provide much interest and intellectual stimulation. The committee<br />

itlso invites the entire faculty to sample from the list and encourages<br />

them to mention in class those books which are relevant to their<br />

disciplines.<br />

Various programs such as films, discussions, and lectures will be<br />

sch<strong>edu</strong>le during the academic year 1975-1976 in connection with the<br />

several blocks of topics.<br />

The books are available in the VMI Bookstore; in the Washington<br />

and Lee Bookstore, which extends credit to cadets; and in most good<br />

bookstores elsewhere.<br />

The books are:<br />

BLOCK 1: Energy — U. S. Energy Policies: An Agenda for<br />

Research; Energy, Economic Growth and the Environment, Sam H.<br />

Shurr; Direct Use of the Sun's Energy. Farrington Daniels; Energy:<br />

A Crisis in Power, John Holdren and Phillip Herrera.<br />

BL(X;K2: Famine — The Hungry Planet, George Borgstrom (who<br />

recently lectured at the VMI Symposium); Populatimi, Evolution,<br />

and Birth Control, Garrett Hardin; Population and the American<br />

Future; The Report of the Commission on Population Growth and the<br />

American Future.<br />

BLOCK 3: Press, Politics and Public Opinion — Crisis in Freedom:<br />

The Alien and Sedition Acts. John C. Miller; Public Opinion, Walter<br />

Lippman; All The President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.<br />

BLOCK 4: Focus on America, m — Only Yesterday: An Informal<br />

History of the 1920's, Frederick L. Allen; Booker T. Washington: The<br />

' Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901, Louis R. Harlan; The End of<br />

American Innocence: A Study of the First Year of Our Own Time,<br />

1912-1917, Henry F. <strong>May</strong>; An American in the Making: The Life Story<br />

of an Immigrant, M. E. Ravage; The Grapes of Wrath, John<br />

Steinbeck.<br />

BLOCK 5: <strong>Military</strong> — The Causes of War, Geoffrey Blainey;<br />

Hiroshima. John Hersey (who is now writing a book about Gerald<br />

Ford based on his recent stay in the White House), The Best and the<br />

Brightest. David "Halberstam.<br />

BLOCK 6: For Freshman Reading — How To Read a Book,<br />

Mortimer Adler; Rethink: Radial Proposals to Save a Disintegrating<br />

World. Gordon R. Taylor; I'm OK - You're OK. Thomas A, Harris.<br />

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