Word: cadets
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...show occasional flashes of intellect. One of his instructors recalls giving a class in which Haig was a middling student and seemed bored. Then he was given an assignment to read various studies about the peaceful control of atomic energy, and prepare a five-minute talk. Most of the cadets droned through dull remarks, says the instructor, but "all of a sudden this Cadet Haig got up and gave an absolutely stunning speech. He understood all the material and he had a gift of presentation"-a gift that Haig was to polish later as a briefing officer for numerous high...
...hundred-eighteen pounder Beller got as far as the quarterfinals, but dropped an 8-1 decision that landed him in the consolation round, which he forfeited to Army Cadet Jim Turner...
...freestyle, Mike Coglin went out in front early only to have Mowry pull ahead in the middle of the race. Coglin turned it on with less than 300 yards left to regain the lead, but the gritty Cadet pushed him right to the finish...
Some rules have been relaxed to make ROTC students feel more at ease. Male cadets need not cut their hair short, and uniforms are required only during field exercises. But the telling development is that the students no longer feel they have to camouflage their armed forces connections. Says Senior Kim Thompson, 22, Princeton's first female cadet commander: "As a freshman, I would never dine in my eating club if I didn't have time to change out of my fatigues. Now I'll go in uniform." Thompson noted a sharp drop in the razzing...
Another boon to ROTC is the fact that patriotism is big again among many students. At the University of Delaware, Cadet Peter Pfeiffer explains, "I thought the Army was a joke. It sounds corny, but now I want to serve my country. I've seen there are a lot of places where you can't do what you want." The program's resurgence is welcomed by the military: 70% of the Army's 98,000 officers came up through ROTC, as did about 30% of the Air Force's 359 generals...