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Using a large media blitz, ROTC has become increasingly prominent and popular on the nation's campuses in the past decade. In exchange for enrollment in a college ROTC unit, passing grades, and at least three years of duty after graduation, the armed services will provide a student with military training, uniforms, books, a $100 per month stipend, and a commission in the service after graduation...
...response to student demand, the first Army unit on campus was created in 1915 when 1200 students joined an extracurricular drill team a few days after its creation. The Navy soon followed with its own ROTC program in 1926, and the Air Force established ROTC at Harvard...
...relationship between Harvard and each ROTC unit has since been governed by a contract signed by the University and the particular service concerned. With slight variations, the Army contract of 1966 has served as a prototype for all three branches of the armed forces. Under the terms of the 1966 contract, the Army agreed to staff and fund a Department of Military Science which would offer courses at no cost to Harvard or its students. It also promised to commission successful ROTC graduates, and to pay ROTC cadets a $50 a month allowance...
...February 4, 1969, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted 207-125 to strip ROTC courses of any academic credit and to rescind the appointments of all ROTC instructors. At the time there were 133 midshipmen in the Navy program and more than 100 in the Army unit...
...fire burning out of control in the gentle, rolling Ukrainian countryside and steadily releasing radiation into the air. That makes the catastrophe unimaginably worse than the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, where a containment building kept most radioactive material from escaping out of the plant. The Chernobyl unit, by contrast, lacked such a protective structure...