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...seniors in the program are giving a formal dance, and they have decided, as a parting gesture, to put any profits made into an AROTC student fund for the use of following classes. It was necessary to hire a ballroom for the dance, but this required a deposit of $50. The students were asked to make a deposit of $1.00 against the $2.50 ticket for the dance because the seniors themselves did not have the capital. This is certainly not a "cheap advertising trick," but merely a practical way of raising the capital...
...regards the way that the committee went about obtaining this dollar: they may have "threatened" the students with not being admitted into the advanced course, or employed similar tactics to force the deposit. However, this was probably due to overenthusiasm on the seniors' part, and is definitely not the attitude of the administration of the unit. The excitement is due only to the fact that the freshman who wrote the letter lacked the insight to understand this and went off half-cocked. Judging by his attitude towards the unit and the military in general, it is clear that his only...
...dollar which the cadets are being asked to contribute is 1) for those who are going to the dance, a deposit towards the full $2.50 ticket which they will buy later, and 2) for those who are not going to the dance, a contribution to a special "reserve fund" which the AROTC is establishing this year...
...amount to blackmail. In a recent air science class a dance committee representative spoke for about ten minutes to the class and implied that he was going to give the student cadets the "inside story." Simply, the story was that if a student does not put down a dollar deposit, he will be listed as having no interest in the ROTC program and this fact will be detrimental to his being accepted into the Advanced Course. This was the tip-off straight from the Commanding Officer. This situation shows poor psychology and logic on the part of the Air Science...
...cadets have been subjected to various forms of persuasion in the past few weeks. They were first of all told that they were putting down the dollar deposit toward a $2.50 ticket and that the ticket would cost only $1.50. This sounds like cheap advertising tricks which say that an article is free if all you do is pay your postman C.O.D. In a recent class, paradoxically enough, the cadets were told that the dollar was for a reserve fund and had nothing to do with the dance finances. Furthermore, if a student did not go to the dance...