The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 13, 1978, Page Page 3, Image 3
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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*
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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been replaced by a less expei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
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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.
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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