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...wave of antiblack attacks began in early November. During homecoming, two figures in white sheets planted a wooden cross on campus. Few took any notice until the pair doused the cross with gasoline, ignited it and escaped. Williams, a small liberal arts college in a rural corner of northwestern Massachusetts, is not the only school in the Northeast where racial incidents have occurred...
...antiwar protesters sprayed chicken blood over ROTC classrooms at the City College of New York. A year later, vandals trashed the Navy ROTC building at Northwestern in Evanston, Ill., forcing the program to move under Dyche Stadium. Throughout the U.S., armed forces instructors took to wearing civilian clothes when they walked on campus. Recalls one: "There was no sense in being harassed...
...some ROTC courses. Although the faculty remains opposed, Pope argues: "If programs like dance, theater, painting and arts can go for credit, there should be room for credit courses in the cause and effect of war." Most oth er ROTC schools grant the courses at least some credit; Northwestern does so for about half of its Navy ROTC courses...
Financial pressure is another reason for the growth of ROTC. At Northwestern, tuition, room and board cost $8,285. Observes the school's commanding officer, Captain Manuel B. Sousa: "If students here can keep their noses above water academically and pass the physical, it's virtually guaranteed that we can put them on full scholarship." Nationally, 10% of the Army's ROTC cadets receive full scholarships for up to four years. All the services pay for attendance at advanced summer camps; upper-level ROTC members also earn up to $1,000 annually for their campus training. Scholarship...
...Government regulation. He has already said he will scrap the failed Carter wage and price guidelines as soon as he takes office, and some expect him to proclaim a moratorium on the issuance of new rules by Washington's myriad regulatory agencies. Says W. Martin Dillon, chairman of Northwestern Steel and Wire Co. of Sterling, Ill.: "The biggest thing the Reagan Administration could do is just stay out of our hair...