Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROTC is so far gone at Yale that even the administrators no longer remember clearly when it began, when it ended or who was in charge...
Course credit for ROTC dropped in 1966 when requirements for the undergraduate degree were revised. "It became clear that (since we had reduced the total number of credits required for graduation) we could safely drop credit from ROTC courses," Martin Griffin, associate dean of Yale College, said yesterday...
Student concern over the presence of ROTC at Brown predated the 1969 climax, but was not an overriding aspect of protest during that year, Murdoch said. When the Navy ROTC contract came up for revision in 1972, however, anti-ROTC teach-ins moved to the center of student life for several weeks prior to the faculty vote, and about 200 students demonstrated when the faculty met that Spring...
Brown's students still don't want to see ROTC renewed. The Faculty and administrators are no longer talking about it. And the Navy isn't interested in a campus where its status is so circumscribed...
During the summer of 1968, Griffin said, when antiwar sentiment was more intense, the question became whether or not ROTC belonged on campus at all. "The question translated itself into whether students could drop the ROTC courses from their schedules in the same way they did regular Yale courses," Griffin said...