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...UNIVERSITY has formally recognized the practice of awarding credit for NROTC courses taken at MIT. The majority opinion attempts to cloak the obvious significance of this act by dismissing it as a legitimization of de facto policy. But any step of this kind, no matter how small, implicitly endorses the program and brings it one step closer to campus...
...appalling that Harvard has chosen to sneak NROTC students down the river and give them credit, appalling that more students hoping to come here might be tempted to accept servitude in the armed forces. It is appalling most of all that the Faculty, which had the opportunity to voice its approval or disapproval, remained silent as stones in this matter of vital importance...
...Brady, former professor of Naval Science, said in 1969 that 75 non-ROTC students were taking NROTC courses. He said he thought most were looking for non-demanding, tuition-free ways to make up failures in other courses...
...beginning, the Service News was put out largely by V-12ers and NROTC students, and its columns were well-padded with special features written by Radcliffe Waves, and Graduate School Communication officers. Most of its advertising came from purveyors of uniforms, its news was army and navy news, and it had no editorials...
...went out and got totally sloshed." Born in the Kansas wheat-belt town of St. Francis, where his father worked for a wheat-silage company, Evans was an Eagle Scout, a math whiz and an all-around athlete. After graduating from the University of Kansas, where he held an NROTC scholarship, he won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. Subsequently he flew 100 carrier missions off Indochina and became the first Viet Nam veteran in the astronaut ranks. A modish dresser (typical garb: white slacks, maroon sports jacket, pink tie and shirt), he is married and the father of two children...