Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triple by Cadet first baseman Fettis and a two-run homer by third baseman Tom Kieger got Army off to a two-run lead, which they increased in the fourth and eighth innings...
...itself is unpopular, and most students would rather gamble on the uncertainties of the draft than join cadet programs, which include at least two years' active duty as a military officer. Besides, the current college generation takes an anti-Establishment view that scoffs at polished buttons and stiff-necked discipline. A military regimen has become an unappealing burden to add to academic chores...
...Coeds & Cadets. Outside of the service academies at West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs and New London, only three colleges remain as all-male institutions in which every student must be a cadet: The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute and Vermont's Norwich University. Three others (Texas A. & M., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Pennsylvania's PMC Colleges) have made the cadet corps optional for men. To the dismay of combat-toughened alumni, they have also admitted coeds to all civilian courses. The seventh school, North Georgia College, has always enrolled women. The combined cadet enrollment at the seven has suffered...
...accepted full-time nonmilitary students in 1958, finally added an all-civilian branch, called Penn Morton College, in 1966. The trustees fought for two years over what to name the combination, finally agreed on PMC to please those alumni who wanted some suggestion of a military designation. Although cadet applications have been dropping for four years and some 100 beds in cadet dorms are now vacant, total enrollment has climbed...
Potted to Pot. The PMC cadets still rise to reveille at 0700, freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student...