Word: rotc
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...front-page article in The Wall Street Journal yesterday sparked a contentious but informal debate among Undergraduate Council members over the future of Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Harvard...
...although we may not realize it yet, this is a moment of truth for Harvard University as well, and for its oh-so-sophisticated student body. For 30 years now, since the Vietnam War drove ROTC from campus and made love of country seem unfashionable and out of date in fair Cambridge, Harvard students have maintained a fashionable, post-patriotic pose that regards national pride with suspicion or outright disgust. The Harvard-spawned ruling class, fanning out across New York and Washington and Hollywood each year, often seems to disdain the people and the nation that it aspires to govern...
Harvard students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) are unlikely to be affected in the coming activations. The military has only rarely called up officers-in-training, either ROTC or students at the nation’s militaryy academies...
Although last week’s events have caused the ROTC program to ask its students to not wear their uniforms as a security precaution, everything else is “business-as-usual,” according to ROTC student Brian Smith...
Charlie Cromwell ’02, an Army ROTC member, failed to get through to military personnel in Washington...