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Teachii rv nn\ forps Asst. News Editor Turnabout is fair play. Dr. Peter Becker, 47, was ten ye member of Hitler's Youth Grout with Nazi propagands at ten, bru by the Russian Secret Service al pressionable age was faced \ homeland and the complete ruin Socialist system that had weane< Victimized by the forces of hist J. ? IIT 1 1 iff ww a uuring worm war 11, uecKer, use tables on history by teaching it for HIS TRAGIC background prove future, as his choice of profession childhood experiences. "I fins history, in a sense I think, prim much concerned with Germany's history-how it was possible for many to become National Soc how someone like Hitler was pos and somehow 1 wanted answers this and it seemed that history i provide them." While a Hitler youth, Becker was I 1 -1 1? 1 * n * scuum uesignea ior T.ne political , envisioned 1,000 year Reich. \ cavalry division and caught rare Mussolini, Himmler, Goering ar Adolf Hitler. Becker's exalted image of Hit tered when he actually saw the c was going to a funeral, and was su He didn't even crack a smile... I wi IN 1945, AT war's end, Beck communist leader in Potsdam, Russian forces turned him over to was jailed on charges of being a third-degree treatment for about release he and his family headed u under American control. The wealth of the Americans impoverished young German. " period of affluence...my conscious shortages. When we lived with didn't know what life could really I encountered who seemed to have t Americans, and so I became ver American wealth, and the stori< mother and grandfather who h? r Physic* \ By SUE SHAW Gamecock Staff Writer The required physical exam been replaced by a less expei system used by 150 major col Data Automated Student alternative to the problem of and medical history from the i Jr., director of the Student V Physical exams were being tur students, Hirata said, because finding a doctor, the difficulty and the expense of a physical e) I THE DASH questionnaire b complete. After the data is health center receives a com] out on the student. "Those medical problems will be sen health center," said Hirata. 41 accurate," he said. The system began operatic I required of all undergradu professional schools,) admittc tig as tl ars old when he became a >. He was indoctrinated tally interrogated in 1945 t age 14, and at this imvith a totally ravished of the vaunted National i him. ory that rocked Germany ' professor, has turned the fun and profit. d to be the catalyst of his was a direct result of his illy decided in favor of arily because I was very 1 g* "I had never ki ialist, period of afflt sible, to all my conscious i would . - , war is of short 5 trained in a special Nazi ana military elite of the oung Peter was in the glimpses of such men as id der Fuehrer himself, ler was somewhat shat:hancellor. "He (Hitler) litably somber and gray, as disappointed." er was denounced by a Ger. and the occupying their secret service. He "great Nazi," and given inree weens. Alter his 'est to Bremen which was suitably impressed the I had never known any memory of the war is of rations and shortages I t>e like. The first people I he desirable life were the y curious." js he had heard from his id lived in America for ??Computer il no lo for admission to USC has I noi im ftMrl VtA/VMyV noivc unu mute dCtUItllC L-ria lieges and universities. J History offers a viable getting a physical exam students, Dr. Isao Hirata, m lealth- Center, said, ned in by 50 percent of the ^ 5 of the inconvenience of in making appointments t xam ($20 to $30). akes about 20 minutes to _ a. ? a*_ _ computer processed, me plete, personalized printstudents with significant eened and treated at the DASH is 80 to 90 percent >n Jan. 1 and its use is ates, (except those in jd this spring semester. lerapy TTV /? frojesso several years around 1900, created in Becker to visit the United State At the age of 22, he did-by himi "My immediate plan was to see t know if I was going to stay here. I tation was there, and I was more i leave again." THE FIRST year here, Becker Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., and wa into the army for two years. Althou on, he was stationed for the duratioi of T?1? 1 XT -tr 1 ui vjvTcuiui 9 loiauu in l^icw I orK After his discharge from the ar continue his education. The GI Bill to him, "Without any background, w disposal, without anyone to help n virtually impossible to go to collegt tremendously important aspect." nnwn anv Heenteredth< any "i was going to lence .. . very concerned never wanted to memory of perceived that didn't suffer aft was the doctors ' m\; nhnina '' aa?j VilWiW? MEDIOCRE GRADES in physi suaded Becker that medicine wa dropped out of school and worked f< doing research and evaluation of data at an air force base. Tiring of his employment in Ne1 resume his education, Becker wer University where he received his B. then entered Stanford University c and was awarded his M.A. in history Prnm 1 1 _ J ? m.' A i/iii ounituiu, iic prutwuea 10 Jose State College where he tai part-time while working on his doct dissertation. After a year of resei in Germany, he returned to San . and taught full-time for a year. He eventually was granted his I 1971, but in 1966 he had received an couldn't refuse. Not only did they ( most important, at San Jose State European history in general. U! historian and offered me a more budget, so I of course accepted." BECKER HAD little trouble cof H * - " ine way Decause ne nad picked u forms replacing d nger req "We expect the full impact with the 1 year," Hirata said. The new admission fee has been DASH. "Whether the student fills c he's paid for the service," Hirata s can fill out forms at the health cei mitted to USC before Jan. 1, 1978, pa r exorcises specter c an overwhelming urge language and ii s. " Bremen. "The o self. , all was over the he country, and I didn't . Becker denies Jut certainly, the temp- history. "I try ( inclined to stay than to that, although th< which shape thei the ideals which worked for Eastman- sometimes centi s subsequently drafted One cannot ur [gh the Korean war was government and ti at Fort Dix, N.J., and one goes back inl City^ of these ideas." my, Becker decided to was of great assistance Concerning the ithout any means at my mistakes of hist< le, it would have been tremely complex 5. So, the GI Bill was a factors, say A, I recognize these t i University of Chicago, come up 200 yea become a doctor...I-was years ago and w I with survival, and I be hungry again. I had . "BUT, UNFOI one of the groups that . events are so nu er the war in Germany duplicate themse , and this guided me in there. Now, that but the similarit; j , . history in a very cs and chemistry pers not for him, and he Becker decrie< 3r a year in New Mexico choose accountai rocket flights and test lieu of the libe available to a hi w Mexico and eacer to th*?t hii?in?*icoc it to North Texas State phasizing the tr A. in history in 1960. He aspects and taki >n a Wilson Fellowship, expense of liber /1961.? : San "He (Hitler) was going to i "rai funeral, and was suitably rach somber and gray. He didn Jose 1 11 ** even eraek a smile ... *h.D. from Stanford in very complex offer from USC "that I business ought I USC) pay me well, but Becker has no I was merely teaching some editing an SC wanted a German leave this fall ii than adequate library German war ec His leisure tir >ing with English along music. "My gre p a fair amount of the ioctors appointment! uired for a t0 USe ^e D ^SH *** <?>*?- A HEALTH RIS1 T**S? lifestyle habits, si ** DASH printout. 44 , , what habits have i _ / - ...:~- ?> .. Hirata. ,llw< fer^;:=* r" | The profile rant ^ factors in determi h :z. ; health risks conti snrh fls ririnlrino --"O. dangers of his pr< S * The profile also i ^ _ ? to increase his lif student stops smol to his life expecta In addition to D, 'student advocate problems and coit reshman class next The student advc guides students to \ adjusted to include Health Risk Profil >ut the form or not, profile shows sign aid. New students Student affairs, titer. Students ad- Health Center coi y $9.00 if they want initiate these prog >/ Nazi Ger ts idioms from Amerk nly time I had any troub i telephone," he said, having a definitive philc ;o make the students of ey live in the present, the ir lives were created a 1< i govern our jlives and iries old," he said, iderstand either the An democracy or many ot to European history and propensity of human bci ary, he said, "historica If they could all be : } and C, then it would I hree factors again. Lat rs later, we could say il hy should it work now? VTUNATELY, the fact merous that they woulc Ives for us to see we h? does not mean there aw y is limited, so that we general way, but not in i the tendency of Americ nts, scientists and manag ral arts major. "The story major are limited do themselves a great < aining of accounting ai ng people with that kind al arts majors. So they know son i counting, about mam knnwlpdop in a conco it may change oven 't vances in the fieli whereas liberal matriculate with the i comprehend, and to material, which is pre to be interested in." t published any major w< d translations, and will n order to finish his n onomy of World War II. TIP is HpvntnH fn CiiMmtv ?~ Viv T vvvu VV O TV AllIII latest form of relaxation See 1 8? kdmist sprvirv ho coiW iiv uuiu. K profile, which analyzes ich as smoking, is inclu On the basis of that alon shortened your life expe< ts the potential health r ining life expectancy. F 'ibuting to motor vehic are listed to alert the s sent lifestyle, according ndipatfts tn thp ctiiHnnt w e expectancy. For exf [ing, a gain of 2.2 years i ncy, Hirata said. ASH, the Health Center ' in its first floor lol tplaints concerning med tcate program which beg. those who can help, dis es and screens those sti ificant health problems. Health Education and nbined their financial rams. W1 A A Muu,ny ~ans stationed in le with English at sophy of teaching today understand forces, the events >ng time ago, and our attitudes are lerican system of her things unless looks for the roots ings to repeat the 1 events are exreduced to three be fairly easy to er on, when they ; didn't work 200 ors in historical I have to almost &ve already been 5 not similarities, can learn from fl Kiwifin '' v. ?.7. an businessmen to ;erial graduates in number of jobs It seems to me disservice by emid other business of training at the lething about acU..A 11 lgciucui, UUl UieiT is limited in time: night or with add of knowledge, arts graduates ability to digest, to ' work with very jcisely what any nrlrc Kn* kn? UUl lldd UUI1C take a sabbatical nanuscript on the ling, reading and is reading, it is a BECKER, page 5 sion the students' . ded with the e, it tells you :tancy," said isks that are por example, le acciaenis, tudent to the \ to Hirata. hat he can do imple, if the will be added has placed a I )by to hear ical care. an last week, tributes the 1 idents whose i the Student \ resources to I