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From grade school to graduate school level, groups of militant students have been effectively demonstrating their ability to disrupt and even shut down U.S. institutions of learning. On campus and off, more moderate types have been asking with increasing frequency: What about the law? Do the militants have a right to prevent other students from enjoying their rights? Last week, in a decision that firmly upheld a peaceful protest in Des Moines by five public school demonstrators, the U.S. Supreme Court also suggested that the Constitution does not protect demonstrations when they are disorderly and disruptive...
...latter. To idealistic students and professors, ROTC has come to symbolize the university's "complicity" in alleged U.S. militarism, particularly the Viet Nam war. As such, it provides radical students with a highly visible target The ROTC, in fact, is a key target for the next wave of campus protests...
...intellect and imagination. By faculty vote, ROTC will be stripped of academic credit and relegated to an extracurricular activity at Yale and Harvard. Dartmouth is considering whether to reduce the number of ROTC courses that qualify for credit or to drop credit altogether if ROTC is not moved off campus and limited to summer training camps. Similar recommendations are pending at Cornell and Stanford...
...away its academic credit is to liberalize its curriculum. Instead of asking faculties to accredit military courses, in fact, the Pentagon plans to accredit more academic courses for ROTC, such as economics, psychology and political science. Purely soldierly skills may increasingly be taught at summer camps rather than on campuses. The problem, though, is whether such compromises will satisfy the ROTC's fervent critics. The trouble is that more and more campus idealists seem to view all armies as evil, including armies that defend free societies...
When French universities erupted last year, the usually inflexible Charles de Gaulle startled many Frenchmen by declaring that he understood why the students wanted more say in their affairs. Last week Richard Nixon (who, ironically, was about to visit De Gaulle) took a very different approach toward campus disorders in the U.S. Despite his trouble establishing rapport with young Americans during his campaign, the President tackled dissident students head on. In a publicly released letter, he lambasted demonstrators in general, giving no hint of any distinction between their valid and invalid aims...