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To: Webster Groves who wrote (304442)2/23/2011 8:55:23 AM
From: ValueproRead Replies (5) of 306849
 
"I was unaware that any land-grant colleges, or even any public colleges, had banned ROTC on campus, as you asserted."

During the Vietnam War era, and partly in response to student protests, violence and bombings of ROTC facilities, many schools ended ROTC programs. Some of this extended from the fact that healthy male students were required, by provisions of the grant, to take at least one year of ROTC, though I don't think that requirement continues to exist.

After the war, ROTC was not restored, ostensibly because the military discriminated against homosexuals, but I think it was more just that an overwhelming anti military sentiment still prevailed on campuses.

But times change. Here's a recent editorial about the pending restoration of ROTC at many places where it had been banned.

VP in AZ
{Former cadet at a Land Grant school)
(Vietnam Vet)
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