Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fundraisers and development officers must deal with the effect of changes within the University as well. Clifton feels that Harvard's termination of Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program had a discernible effect on many alumni, particularly those from classes which served in either World...
...Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were taken to the island as part of the fraternity's initiation rites and told to play the part of war prisoners withholding military secrets. Playing Fitzgerald...
...wake of the tragedy, Savino was charged with second-degree murder; ROTC headquarters assigned an inspector-general to investigate the incident; St. John's suspended the fraternity pending the outcome of a university inquiry. Even before their full-scale investigations began, both the ROTC and St. John's disputed the police version that the fatal stabbing stemmed from hazing. One ROTC officer suggested that the Pershing Rifles were simply conducting unauthorized training maneuvers. That theory raised the question of why only the pledges played the roles of P.O.W.s. As for St. John's, its spokesman noted that...
...William R. Trott, the colonel directing the MIT Air Force ROTC, said Tuesday he expects more students will enroll after this year, since high school students will know before they come here that they are eligible for ROTC scholarships...
...think it's safe to assume we will get three or four more" Harvard students this year, Richard Murphy, captain of the Army ROTC at MIT, said Tuesday...