Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DePriest has spent the last year lobbying to get the ban on MIT's ROTC program lifted. The anti-ROTC mood of the '60's was just a fad that's died away, he says. There has always been a military, and it is likely to remain, he adds...
...larger issue of Harvard's relation to the military was not really considered during the Faculty's recent debates on ROTC. Most Faculty members seemed to consider it a question of how much the University can interfere in students' extra-curricular activities--an interference many of them consider a kind of moral imperialism...
...more students decide to enlist in ROTC programs than MIT will accept, Dean Rosovsky said this week, the issue will have to be reconsidered. For now, he said, the matter is more or less in abeyance, because there do not appear to be many students who really want to take ROTC courses...
...DePriest and Steven Peck '79, another student who told the administration he wants to enroll in ROTC, say they know several people who may join. The army and the air force both offer full scholarships, book and lab fees and a $100 monthly allowance, that many students find attractive, DePriest said. In return, however, students have to go on four years' active duty after graduation...
...DePriest, who took basic training last summer and who received provisional permission last fall to join ROTC, said he believes that influence is likely to be slight...