Word: extracurricular
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There are hushed whispers at Harvard, peaceful objections at Princeton and ROTC courses at three of the eight Ivy League institutions. More than three years after the 1969 outburst of campus antiwar protest, the ROTC program is limited but credited at Cornell and Penn, extracurricular at Princeton and dead and buried at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth...
Princeton President Bowen has been silent on the issue since he took office last year. His last traceable statement on ROTC indicated, however, that he favors retention of the program as an extracurricular activity...
...March of 1969 Columbia's Trustees accepted the committee's recommendation that ROTC be made extracurricular--and thus eliminated, since Congress hasn't authorized extracurricular ROTC programs--so that the university could more faithfully carry out its role as "a free center of inquiry." The 45 students already enrolled in ROTC finished their courses and graduated under the old requirements, but no new students were enrolled, and ROTC quickly passed out of sight and almost out of memory...
After years of demonstrations, referendums and committee reports, Princeton's ROTC program has been stripped of its academic status, but remains as an extracurricular activity...
...notice last Spring inviting interested students to contact the club. And neither the Faculty nor the Faculty Council currently has ROTC on its agenda. Vital Statistics SCHOOL BORN CURRENT STATUS OF ROTC PROGRAM Penn 1918 Credited in the College for Women, the Wharton School and the School of Engineering. Extracurricular in the College of Arts and Sciences. Army and Navy only. Cornell 1919 Credit available in all colleges. Princeton 1919 Extracurricular. Army sponsored. Harvard 1916 Died June 1970 Yale Unknown Died June 1971 Dartmouth 1940s Died June 1973 Columbia 1946 Died after 1969 Brown WWI Died June...