Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's been no move to bring it back since then. "ROTC?" one official in Columbia's Public Information Department asked yesterday. "I haven't had a question about ROTC in years...
Brown University laid its ROTC program to rest in June 1972--its last ROTC students received diplomas as news of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia swept the country...
...program's death there was hardly unexpected, coming three years after the Brown faculty stipulated that future ROTC programs would be non-credit and ROTC professors would have no voting faculty status. Given those and other guidelines in 1969, the Navy decided in 1972 that it could not continue its ROTC program at Brown. The contract was thus allowed to expire in June...
...Brown's ROTC program, founded during the First World War and fortified during World War II, had a modest enrollment until 1969, when anti-war sentiment and the shaky status of the program made it an unattractive option. Enrollment was never mandatory, Kelsey Murdoch, assistant to the President of Brown, said yesterday...
Student antiwar protests were mild at Brown in 1969 and afterwards, and the settlement of the ROTC issue fit with the relatively peaceful tone of the campus. A student-faculty-corporation committee studied Brown's ROTC program, reached a negative verdict in 1972, and submitted its report to the faculty. The faculty then affirmed the decision, restating and updating their 1969 guidelines...