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...Petition was circulated through the Harvard community asking people to remove the "stool pigeon" clause that said Navy ROTC students had to report other students "associating or acting with or attending informal or social functions of an attached list of 'subversive' organizations." The petition was sponsored by The Crimson, the Young Republicans, the American Veterans Committee, the National Lawyers Guild, the Teachers Union and was sent to the administration. Harvard loyalty oath declared invalid--wording was wrong...
...international banker and ex-Governor's aide. First Sergeant Terry Horton, 47, retired from the Army three years ago. Currently, instead of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or traveling with the Army drill team, he teaches the 160 boys and girls enrolled in Chamblee's Junior ROTC. "I have a great rapport with the kids," he says. "They respect me, and I respect them." And, he adds, "there is not a day that goes by when I do not feel blessed. I would not change this job for anything else...
Police detective Brian Braswell of Petersburg, Va., thinks he's "three-quarters" prepared for the next Columbine. Last month, the local high school was the stage for a hostage drill complete with blaring fire alarms, 60 kids from Junior ROTC playing the wounded and scared, and an officer portraying a revenge-seeking killer, firing blanks from a shotgun. Braswell's team of officers had to push through waves of fleeing, panicked students and step over wounded children tugging at their pant legs crying "Help me!" Says Braswell: "From Columbine, we've learned that you have no choice...
Smith, who championed bringing ROTC back to campus and focusing the council on student services as a council member last year, decided not to run for re-election out of frustration with what he calls the council's ineptitude...
...This writer is a fourth-year cadet with the Air Force ROTC...