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...also argued that a leadership program it set up at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, although separate, is entirely equal. A traditional women's school that features Apple Day and genteel residence halls with brass chandeliers, carpeting, cable TV and microwaves, Baldwin offers two hours of rotc a week for freshmen, but none of the character-building deprivation or bonding possibilities of barracks life. There is also no Bachelor of Science degree or alumni network similar to VMI's, which has always been touted as the key to cracking the Virginia establishment. Last week VMI put itself...
...allow me to retort. Harvard students are grown up enough to vote in the national elections of a country of 260 million, which the administration needs to be reminded is larger, more important, and even--gasp--wealthier than our precious University. Those of us in Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs are grown up enough to train to kill and, if necessary, die for this country. But the administration is probably right: I'm not grown up enough to choose where I live...
...drive is clearly within the council's mandate and therefore tractable; it is not controversial and not confrontational; and it provides a tangible service to the community. Its psychological feeling is a far cry from the frivolity of poorly-attended live concerts and beer fests, from the divisiveness of ROTC debates, and from the hopelessness of council claims to give students voice in tenure decisions and university investment policy...
...overcommitted as Johnson. He also participates in army ROTC, in addition to his academic and athletic responsibilities...
...presidents of the two clubs have participated in debates sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP) in the past. The first joint event between the clubs was a debate on the Reserve Training Officer Corps (ROTC) and gays in the military last year, Ho said...