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Tufts University imposed similar restrictions on a newly reinstated Tufts ROTC group, and that organization has sponsored numerous speakers and events, according to Michelle Tinker, head of the Tri-Service Organization of Tufts University...
Within the last year, Tinker said, Tufts ROTC students have succeeded in moving ROTC classes back on campus and winning recognition of the club by pursuing the issues through the student government...
...Tinker said the club is trying to establish a "positive image" by sponsoring United Way fund drives and throwing campus-wide parties with funds from the student government, which allots them approximately $1200 a year...
...difference between our organization and MIT is that they push others to get involved." Tinker said, adding, "the sad difference between Tufts and Harvard is that at Tufts, enough people will come to an ROTC event who don't care about who sponsored it. At Harvard, they would care...
...time when President Reagan is fighting with Congress over his record military budget, whistle blowers in the Pentagon are continuing to sound alarms about the wasteful way past funds have been spent. Last fall a leaked report, prepared by Air Force auditors at Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, showed astounding increases in the price of aircraft engine parts made by Pratt & Whitney: a turbine air seal for an F-111 fighter-bomber, for example, soared from $16 to $3,033.82 in one year. These findings touched off a broader study by the Pentagon's inspector general...