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...last week's episode, editor Raymond Mungo drafted a centerfold editorial proposing that the university stop giving credit for ROTC courses because they represented a form of indoctrination to a military set of values. The editorial asserted that "since its institution here [at B.U.] in 1919, ROTC has not changed its futile and pathetic stance: that war can solve our problems and that school is the place to train...
Fortunately the News proved able to withstand the onslaught. While teachers and students, organizations of teachers and students, and even a Boston newspaper of two lambasted the News for questioning the academic merits of military training, Mungo and his staff persisted in their right to challenge accepted institutions, rules, ideas and men. That remains the ultimate task of a newspaper...
...proposed paper will be called the B.U. Gazette, and will rival the B.U. News, the university-owned weekly. According to Ray Mungo, associate editor of the News and one of the paper's organizers, the Gazette is an attempt to establish a student newspaper in a university which holds that "there is no role for a specifically student newspaper...
...Mungo said that the Board is "particularly odious" because any vote always comes out "with three undergraduates against everyone else." He feels that however well-intentioned the other eight members of the board are, they can be easily misled on undergraduate affairs...
...There are no set taboos on what to write and what not to write," he said, but "editorials almost always approve of the administration," Mungo said that he was warned never to follow up an article he wrote this fall suggesting large profits being made by the university food service...