University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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Determined Men in Khaki Tackle URugged” Courses The sine of an angle is the let me net now — oh. ves the wide of I he triangle opposite it divided by the side adjacent no, that's not right—l ll have to look it up again. 'Phis might very well he one of the air crew students at T. C. studying the day’s trigonometry lesson. After a few solid hours of math lessons, the weary student might turn to the next day’s physics lesson or geography or well, just read the next few lines and forever withhold complaint about the grind of your own college days. “Courses designed to eliminate wash-outs that’s the explanation that the army assigns to its college training program: a much needed refresher say the air corps men. Both necessary and a refresher, the army course is “rugged.’ Physics, to give the potential pilot a knowledge of the forces that are at play in making his machine the precision instrument it is. To us of the student body, it might seem rather tough taking as much as live hours of physics a day: it’s become routine to the air crew students. Geography, to prepare the pilot for the strange laud he may have to light in: history, to fulfill the requirement — “The democratic heritage should he firmly planted in the thinking of our soldiers. Speech, physical education and medical aid are more major require- ments. Well, students, there you have it a panorama of what the Army ir Corps is doing with its future pilots here at Iowa Teachers. We of the student body may he justly proud of tin role our college and faculty are playing in making the college man of yesterday tin pilot of tomorrow. hr. I.am hen son, T. C. debate, professor, lec- tures to his neto class, the Army Air Crew students. P-«r 16

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Meal - time is a busy lime for every one! Air Students Busy Crew from Reveille to Taps Across the ram pus from ihe Wave «hip we find the army air corps ami llirir routine. Routine here mean falling out of hod at 05:15 ami answering reveille roll call liflecn minutes later. Retween 05:30 ami the first elans at 07:00. the air crew student must have his room ready for inspection, his clothe properly cared for. and breakfast eaten. These men. like people on other parts of the campus, found that living four in a room did have an advantage, for the work can he divided one man mops the floor, another cleans the mirror and lava- tory, and so on. Each man makes his own hed. army style, with one blanket placed over the hed and drawn tightly, with no wrinkles, and the two large com- fort are rolled, with one being placed at each end of the hed. Clothe and shoes must he properly placed ready for inspection. From seven through four more hours, the army air corps students are in classes, hut at eleven, they arc again ahead, for noon mess call is at eleven. After mess comes the first mail call of the day. fternoon classes begin at 12:30 and last until 16:30. Mess call comes again at 17:00. After mess, the students return again to Scerley and Raker for the last mail call of the day. Supervised study begins at 18:30 and lasts until 19:30 every night except Saturday and Sunday surely no one has a question on why these future pilots need to study after looking at their schedule. Little explanation is needed for the time from 19:30 to 21:00 that's ree time. 21:15 spells the end of a day of army routine for the air corps student and the beginning of eight hours of sleep. p « i s

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'’Tree” Hours Precious for Joe-Soldier College Man ' 11 work and no play if certain!} not the air corps way! For while the men of the ftOlh College Training Detachment study hard. they also find time for a few hours of relaxation on our campus. The social life of the college air crew student is quite different from the “college man in mufti. Classes are over for the T. C. future fivers at 7:30 lights out at 9:00 an hour and a half in which to have a coke at the corner drug store with the coed he met last week. n hour and a half to dance to the juke hox in the “Hillside. to relax in the Commons w ith the student he met at the student army dance last Saturday night, to stroll around the verdant Iowa Teachers campus, an hour and a half of free time a day for the air crew student to have his social life. Hut it on the week-end that the future flyer takes part in the social life of the college most. Three o'clock classes for tin week are over, inspection finished, passes issued, and those men who don't have to walk ofT “gig are free for the weekend: and it seems as though the air crew student's week-end i- the same as any other student's. Rarely has there been a Saturday night which has not seen a student-army party at tin Commons and the air crew men look part in all of them in quantity and quality; Saturday night might also see tin air crew student and a T. C. coed viewing the latest Hollywood epic or dancing at the Electric Park. On Sunday, the air crew student, if he desires, may skip break- fast ami sleep late. But in the afternoon he once more enters into tin social whirl at lea at I .awl her Hall, open house, invitations to dinner, or an «‘veiling dinner date. Ilec thine in : in the Common , n In nr my. ☆ I’ajr 17