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The Red and Black • Thursday, March 8, 1990 • 3
UGA cadet chosen from among 1,500
for Bethesda military medical school
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
ROTC Cadet Gregory Fryer has taken the
Army's slogan “Be all you can be," to the limit.
The pre-med senior, has learned to juggle
school and ROTC obligations well enough to be
accepted by the Uniformed Services University
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Fryer and 166 others were chosen from 1,500
applicants to attend USUH this fall.
I’ve always wanted to be a doctor and after I
saw some of the benefits the armed forces had
to offer, it affected me a lot in my decision,”
Fryer said.
Some of the benefits include getting paid for
attending school. Having earned a commission
through University ROTC, Fryer will be paid as
a second lieutenant while he attends USUH,
earning $1,789.12 per month. When he finishes
USUH, he will become a captain and serve in
the regular Army.
“I was very impressed when 1 went up there
for an interview, they have very nice facilities,
all current stuff,” he said.
The senior pre-med major began ROTC as a
freshman at the University.
“My senior year of high school I started get
ting interested in ROTC,” Fryer said. “My
brother became involved in ROTC and he’s two
years ahead of me, so that kind of encouraged
me.”
Fryer received a military scholarship from
the Army his sophomore year and currently
serves as the executive officer of the Bulldog
University ROTC often uses
Fryer as a source of Inspiration
for it’s new cadets.
Battalion of University ROTC. He acts as a
staff coordinator of the different sections of the
battalion.
Capt. Chip Brown of University ROTC said,
‘Hell do very well. He’s got a lot of drive and
initiative. He’s an extremely positive person.
He’s very committed and anything he wants to
go out and do he will get done.”
University ROTC often uses Fryer as a
source of inspiration for it’s new cadets, to show
them it’s possible to participate in ROTC and
still maintain a high grade point average,
Brown said.
Part of that inspiration has to be the fact that
Fryer is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma honor
society and the Alpha Epsilon Delta National
Premedical honor society.
Being able to go to medical school isn’t the
only reason Fryer joined ROTC.
“I love strategy and tactics. If I wasn’t inter
ested in becoming a doctor I would probably go
into a branch like infantry or armor,” Fryer
said.
Armor is an Army branch involving tanks.
Brown said Fryer expressed interest in
serving as a doctor in a more elite type of Army
force, like an airborne combat team.
Fryer has been to airborne school and has
jumped out of a plane five times. It is one of the
things he has done that he finds exciting in
ROTC.
‘There are so many exciting things to choose
from. I like to repel and when I got here it was
the first time I really rock climbed, and that
was great, being out on the face of a rock,” he
said.
As part of earning his commission as an of
ficer, Fryer attended the advanced officer
training camp for cadets last summer.
“Camp was very challenging, it was six
weeks, it was intense. I met a lot of exciting
people there. I enjoyed that part of it," he said.
Derrick Paul, a hotel and restaurant man
agement senior who has worked under Fryer in
ROTC, said, “He’s a realy cool guy who gets the
job done and is fair. What more can you ask
for?”
Paul said he had no doubts Fryer would do
well in medical school.
“His grades are always up,” he said, “and
they don’t just hand you an acceptance to Be
thesda.”
Fryer looks forward to going to USUH and
says that even if he hadn’t been accepted he’d
still be going to a medical school. Even if he had
never joined ROTC he said his life would still be
full of activity.
Tm just that type of person.” he said. “I’d
find something to fill the void. If I didn’t have
ROTC I’m sure there’d be something else I’d
concentrate on.”
Expert testifies on Valdez skipper’s sobriety
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The
prosecution rested its case today
against Joseph Hazelwood after a
defense lawyer tried to poke holes
in an expert’s testimony that the
skipper was drunk while in com
mand of the Exxon Valdez.
Richard Prouty acknowledged
his method of calculating back
wards to determine someone’s
prior level of intoxication is a sub
ject of dispute among experts. He
also said his results would have
been different if he had different
facts about Hazelwood’s liquor con
sumption before he boarded the
tanker.
Prouty said he was told by pros
ecutors that Hazelwood drank five
shots of 100-proof vodka in a period
seven hours before he boarded the
ship on the night it ran aground.
Defense attorney Dick Madson
asked if Prouty*s conclusions would
be different if Hazelwood had only
two or three drinks of vodka with a
lower potency beginning just four
hours before boarding the ship.
Witnesses gave different accounts
of Hazelwood’s drinking on that
day.
Prouty said the figures would
definitely be different, and would
not reach the 0.14 percent blood al
cohol level he concluded Ha
zelwood had at the time of the
grounding.
Prouty was the state’s 45th and
final witness in 4Yi weeks of testi
mony.
Hazelwood’s lawyers contend
the defendant wasn’t drunk when
the tanker rammed a reef March
24, setting off the nation’s worst oil
spill.
Prouty, chief forensic toxico
logist with the Oklahoma medical
examiner’s office, said he used a
combination of figures to “calculate
backwards” from blood and urine
tests done on Hazelwood 10Fa
hours after the grounding.
He said Hazelwood’s blood al
cohol level would have been .14
percent at 12:05 a.m. when the
tanker ran aground in Prince Wil
liam Sound.
The legal limit in Alaska for
driving a car is .10 percent. The
Coast Guard has a limit of .04 for
operating a commercial vessel, but
jurors weren’t told of the regula
tion because Hazelwood is charged
under state law, not federal.
Evidence on whether Hazelwood
was drunk has been inconclusive,
but the issue remains a key factor
in the prosecution’s efTort to prove
he was reckless.
Hazelwood, 43, of Huntington,
N.Y., is charged with criminal mis
chief, reckless endangerment, op
erating a vessel while intoxicated
and negligent discharge of oil. He
could get up to 1V< years in prison
and $61,000 in fines.
Barriers discussed at
African culture forum
By LYNN BARFIELD
Contributing Writer
A panel of Native African and
Black American students were
given a rare opportunity to dis
cuss cultural barriers Tuesday
night at a forum sponsored by
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in
the Memorial Hall ballroom.
AKA members were joined by
members of the African Student
Association, who provided enter
tainment and an exhibit of tradi
tional African clothing
The discussion started with
the topic of misconceptions that
Africans have about black people
in America.
African students said most of
the images they saw of black
Americans before they came to
this country were in movies and
television. But once they came to
the United States and to the Uni
versity, they were able to see how
black Americans acted and inter-
grated with society.
Both sides felt that the media
instigated stereotypes of both
groups and that these stereo
types are hard to dispel.
The groups also shared their
experiences with racism. Cerille
Nassau, a senior political science
major whose father is a native Li
berian, conveyed stories to the
African students about his child
hood in Columbus, Ga., and how
he experienced racism.
“My family was the only black
family in an all white neighbor
hood,” he said. “Most of those
people didn’t know how to act to
ward black people because they
felt they were superior to blacks.”
Some black African students
said they felt black Americans
discriminated against them.
Black African students said
that they had more white friends
than black American friends.
Panel members, Bernardo
Cuaresma, a senior forestry
m^jor, and Jean Quedrogo, a
graduate in French from Burkina
Faso, pointed out to the audience
that neither of them have black
American friends.
“You, (the audience), are dis
appointed in the white people
and racism; you should be disap
pointed in the black race also,”
Cuaresma said.
The audience was also enter
tained by Simeon Hau, a grad
uate mathematics education
student, who performed a native
African war dance that was pop
ular during battle.Many believe
that the ‘step’ dances performed
by black Greeks originated from
African dance steps.
Alires Almon, a senior indus
trial psychology msyor and a AKA
memoer, and Malcolm Wiseman,
a junior physical education
major, performed step
movements for Hau.
Ant wan Joseph, a sophomore
engineering major, felt the pro
gram was constructive, but “we
need more interaction with each
other to further understand our
diverse cultures.”
The forum was one event in
the sorority’s annual AKA Week.
There will be a discussion of
‘The Dissappearance of the
Black Race” as part of AKA Week
tonight at 7 p.m. in the lobby of
Creswell Hall.
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