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...Cadets Care About Saving AROTC...
...Many of the 146 members of Army ROTC reacted unenthusiastically yesterday when they learned officially that the student leaders in their program are trying to save AROTC...
Nevertheless, a group of about a dozen AROTC student leaders will proceed in their plans to send letters to under-graduates and first-year graduate students to enlist their support for the continuation of the program, due to end next June...
...typical class, Scovell said, 400 fall in the top third of the lottery list and are therefore liable to be drafted. Two hundred of these will be deleted for occupational or medical reasons, he added, and at least 100 of the remaining 200 would prefer two years as AROTC officers to two years as draftees...
Under present AROTC rules, a freshman can join the program without having to commit himself until the beginning of his junior year. At age 19 a student with a high lottery number could drop out of AROTC without being penalized...