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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many critics fault ROTC on strictly academic grounds. As they see it, such boring trade-school courses as "military staff operations" have no more business being part of the college curriculum than the officer-instructors sent by the Pentagon-who must be accorded the rank and privileges of a full professor-have being part of the faculty. While overlooking the presence of similar non-military courses (accounting, physical education), the critics also tend to forget that universities themselves approve the ROTC instructors, many of whom are rising young officers who take graduate courses on the side. At Columbia, for example...
Close-Order Rituals. Hannum's point is apparently lost on many critics, who see no disparity in arguing against ROTC while arguing for a volunteer army. Such an army might well need a larger supply of ROTC officers, even if only to curb the growth of a real U.S. officer caste. Meanwhile, wherever ROTC is made extracurricular, the almost certain result will be diminished enrollment. Ultimately, the military might have to turn elsewhere for officers...
...report without deleting the offensive words. "But when the story came up from the composing room and we saw all those words in cold print for the first time, we chickened out," he says. "It's one thing to hear it in conversation, another to see it in the paper. We used dashes...
...Spectorsky calls "shock value or the nervous laughter they might produce, but if the editorial context calls for them, we use them." Atlantic and Harper's both feel that their audience is ready for rough language. "With our literary and sociological claims," says Atlantic Editor Robert Manning, "I see no reason why we should not make judicious use of those words if they make the difference in portraying an extreme feeling." Harper's Editor Willie Morris feels even more strongly: "We're not encouraging shock for the sake of shock. It has to be essential...
...would have understood the depth of his rage when he used the term chienlit (literally, "crap in bed") in referring to last spring's student-worker uprising? "As one who savors a good obscenity," says Roy M. Fisher, editor of the Chicago Daily News, "I would hate to see it cheapened by overexposure...