Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test case in 1971 brought a non-credit ROTC course back to Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. This fall, however, Arts and Sciences students are receiving four hours of credit for the course. There was no student opposition to the change...
...Pearce Williams, chairman of the History Department and instructor of the ROTC course, estimated that about 200 Cornell students are ROTC cadets, and that about 25 of them are in the Arts and Sciences college...
Columbia set up a Naval ROTC program in 1946, inspired by the recommendation of its president, left-over fervor from World War II, and satisfaction with a wartime on-campus midshipman training program and arrangements for the Navy to use Columbia facilities during...
...ROTC was never compulsory and never very big at Columbia, and in the 1960s it tapered off even more. It was a minor issue in the agitation that led up to Columbia's great 1968 strike, in which student opposition to alleged Columbia encroachment on the Morningside Heights community was far more vocal and influential. Nevertheless, after the bloody end of the strike, in which police clubbed, beat and arrested the students occupying Hamilton Hall, the Columbia Faculty set up a committee to study ROTC...
...March of 1969 Columbia's Trustees accepted the committee's recommendation that ROTC be made extracurricular--and thus eliminated, since Congress hasn't authorized extracurricular ROTC programs--so that the university could more faithfully carry out its role as "a free center of inquiry." The 45 students already enrolled in ROTC finished their courses and graduated under the old requirements, but no new students were enrolled, and ROTC quickly passed out of sight and almost out of memory...