European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 6, 1991 the stars and stripes / Pago 9military cutting Roth scholarships Middle class students feeling effect by Keith Bradsher . Times news service the Reserve officers training corps one of the Best a danced Federal education programs in the 1980s and a rare source of scholarships for Middle class students ineligible for Aid programs based on need is shrinking in the 1990s. Quot. Quot.  is a 74-year-old program to Tram military officers at colleges and universities other than the nation s three Mam military academies. Now it is cutting Back recruitment closing units and releasing some students from their military obligations. Better relations with the soviet Union have allowed the United states to trim its armed forces including the number of others. T lie american military deployment in the persian Gulf has delayed but not stopped this process. Politicians and economists have been looking to reductions in military spending As a Way to limit growth in the Federal budget deficit. But for thousands of americans a smaller Roth Means More limited educational opportunities. Paul Merwin n Junior at Manhattan College from Hunter n.y., said an army Roth scholarship enabled him to study civil engineering. His father died when he was very Young his sister is in College and his Mother has been working two jobs to support them. Without the scholarship Merwin said he would have had to. Attend a two year College. A there Are no two year civil engineering colleges that i know of a he added. For Ingrid Stabb a senior from san Diego majoring in russian studies at Columbia University an army Roth scholarship meant attending an Ivy league school not a state University m California. Stabb said family income made her ineligible for other financial Aid. A my Mother was in the Hospital. The future looked Uncertain a she said. A i really needed the scholarship.�?�. Yet in the last tour years combined enrolment m the most dramatically shrinking Roth program is that of the army which is closing 50 of its 416 College and University units. Army Navy and air Force Roth fell 10 percent to 86.0 10, while the number of scholarships was reduced by 21 percent to 21,700, making the scholarships More competitive Chan Ever. There were Lor example 11.421 applications last Winter for 1,232 Navy Roth scholarships starting in the current academic year said  Comdr rav p. Kempis to a Navy spokesman. A no figures Are available from and of the services on applications since Iraq invaded Kuwait in August. The most dramatically shrinking Roth program is that of the army which is closing 50 of its 416 College and University units and asking students at campuses no longer served to commute to campuses where programs remain. In an even More drastic measure All non scholarship seniors in the army Roth were offered exemptions from military service last year. The army gilded up releasing 1,136 cadets and commissioning the remaining 8,217 As officers. Quot   academic year the army is commissioning Only 6,000 of slicers. No decision has been Marie yet about offering releases from military service to this year s seniors Saul capt Mary Ann Kilcullen an army spokeswoman. A the air Force is reducing to 2,200 the number of n t a i 3?, but no thanks Bertha Lamb a 90-year-old retired nurse shows Oft a Maine. Her comment was simply a i think someone Navy recruitment letter she received recently asking made a mistake a Lamb walks with the Aid of a Cane her to sign up for Active duty in old Orchard Beach and can see partially with Only one Eye. Roth cadets it. Commissions during the current  Vear from 2,335 during the last year Ami 2.823 the year before. An offer last Spring to release seniors from military service attracted 104 cadets a  last autumn Drew 141. More said Terry Boksan a civilian air Force spokeswoman.  scholarship cadets released from service must repay. All benefits Recci veil Over a 10-Vear period at an annual interest rate of.0 percent. The naw is reducing the number 6t incoming midshipmen Tor its Roix. Which also trams officers for the Marine corps. But it is not closing units or offering   service. A we do commission All of our graduates and we intend to keep it that  Kempisty Saul. Manv Roth students Are Lindig that those comm is Sions jul their school financing come at an unexpected Price a. A. A Allan d. Barall a. Senior a Yonng m business at new York University on an army to 11 scholarship Saul he was recently jeered when lie walked m uniform past a demonstration i Greenwich Village against sending american troops to he persian Gull. Faculties on several do in campuses including Harvard a have passed non Bindig resolutions a Skeg that administrators expel Campus to to units in they do not alter policies that exclude homosexuals. Ami the Long run value of military service to private Seel or careers is being widely debated. Stories abound of Roic officers  that teach them Little. But laudatory accounts Are also easy to find. Randall Tobias one of two vice chairmen of the american Telephone and i Telegraph co., Saul he met Lus Wile Wiuf Learned to speak with Confidence m Public after he was assigned to teach at the army s artillery school m port Sill okla. A a a a those Are experiences that Are difficult  m terms of leadership development a he  90 jumped by 85 percent Moscow ijp1 a the number of soviet army vie servers jumped by More than 85 percent in Llie first 11 months of .1990 compared with the same period the previous year the army newspaper Krasnaya zvezda said Friday. ,.the newspaper  from the military prosecutors Tolice said Many deserters  hazing by older soldiers but it blamed much of the increased problem on political motives and nationalism. A this is connected with some Union republics attitude toward service in the soviet armed forces and with Republican Laws con front at Ion with All Union legislation Over the procedure for military service of the soviet Union a a said Krasnaya zvezda red Star. Total figure s for desertions were not Given but the newspaper said in the first 11 month s of 199lhheic were 85.2 percent More deserters from lie army than the previous year. Besides the problem with desertions the army also has faced serious problems with conscription in much of the country. Strong anti draft movements in the Baltic republics Armenia and Georgia have resulted in Large scale draft dodging. Many of the republics that have declared Independence or sovereignty in the last year have tacitly encouraged their Young men to ignore the soviet military Call up or demanded that draftees Only. Serve in their Home  fast food seeks More ethnic Home in . Norfolk a. Up1 a americans have said a in Sci Quot to the nations first soviet fast food restaurant but its owners still believe the caters can make it in a More ethnically diverse last coast City. A a the Piroshka restaurant opened last Spring in  great expectations and Uilk of International cooperation. After a Brief spurt of interest in the Sovi it american venture however business dropped off. V a a the american people Are very conservative in general a said Mark Aynbinder a soviet immigrant and part owner of the eatery. A we will develop something to. Adjust the Piroshka to american  Competition for the american cheeseburger came from the Piroshka the eatery was named alter a a Fried pastry filled with meat and vegetables that sold for less than a Dollar. Unlike the Mcdonald a that recently opened in Moscow there were  lines at Piroshka. A at its Peak 7 h to 800 Pirosh Kis were sold in a Day. T he business served other foods including a soviet doughnut but most Days fewer than 100 customers visited its counters  from the shop was auctioned Oil at the Cilyo a Waterside marketplace where the  opened last april