Word: anti-rotc
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...cadets say they feel that their proctors tried to discourage them from enrolling in ROTC during the freshman year. None of them, however, consider proctors generally anti-ROTC. "I would anticipate that a few proctors might talk down ROTC," says Harry P. Kerr '64, Faculty Advisor to ROTC, "but so far there is no real evidence of it. All we have is rank hearsay." At least seven of the thirty or more proctors have been in ROTC; these proctors tend to recommend the program if it adapts well to an individual case...
...Arizona State University (10,000) near Phoenix, where four student leaders resigned from a student-faculty committee studying the issue, charged faculty members with "promilitary" bias. Others collected 750 signatures on an anti-ROTC petition, got another 1,500 signatures at Tucson's University of Arizona...
...University of California at Berkeley (20,000), where student leaders set up petition-signing booths, predicted 5,000 signatures by this weekend. Berkeley's movement reached a high point last October when Freshman Frederick Moore Jr., pacifist son of an Air Force colonel, went on a 59-hour, anti-ROTC hunger strike, took an "honorary withdrawal" from the university...