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This commentary does not represent the views of the Navy or its ROTC program. Nor do I claim to speak for any other ROTC student. These are my own personal opinions. Each ROTC student has his or her own opinion of the events of the last few days. As members of an open, reflective university community, all faculty, students and staff have a responsibility to avoid stereotyping. One of the most terrifying things I have seen this week is broad-brush categorization of both student activists and students enrolled in ROTC programs. That should stop right...
...sales, Japanese manufacturers may be pulling ahead by some measures of supercomputer performance, notably processing speed. Earlier this month NEC introduced a new series, called SX-3, billed as the world's fastest supercomputers, even though the machines will not be available until June 1990. Cray discounts NEC's claim to top speed, contending that such measurements are based on "theoretical peak performance" figures rather than a practical application. NEC insists that the SX-3's key elements have been tested...
...unrest is why the authoritarian leadership permitted it to get started. One possibility is that with Mikhail Gorbachev due in Beijing on May 15, China's rulers were loath to set the stage with a crackdown. Some cynics speculated that conservatives plan to use the spasm of protest to claim a new liberal victim, possibly Hu's successor, Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. But a Western diplomat in Beijing disagreed, suggesting that the era of fall-guy politics has ended. Said he: "Can they let another guy go down the tubes, given the growing cynicism of the Chinese people...
...would somehow lose its academic integrity and have to "forfeit control of what is taught in the classroom" by letting ROTC return to campus makes no sense. First of all, several prominent Ivy League institutions--such as Dartmouth, Princeton, and Pennsylvania--now have ROTC on campus, and few would claim that these schools have somehow become "militarized" and lost their academic credibility. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would never let ROTC "control an academic department." If the Pentagon insists on making such demands, the faculty will simply vote to keep it off campus...
...Some claim that since ROTC students must take a prescribed set of courses, they are unfairly being "coerced" into taking an academic program whose validity is questionable. But most of the courses they must take (Physics, International Relations, Military Strategy) are already accorded academic legitimacy by several departments here. Moreover, plenty of other scholarship programs give money on the condition that the students who receive this aid will take courses in specific fields...