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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (56040)	2/21/2007 5:10:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57110

ROTC was required of all students? "All MALE students. If you could probe you were female, you didn't have to show up at 7 AM on the drill field on a cold winter morning in summer uniform and freeze your tail off." That is so out of the park that the SAT requirement had to be a 400 minimum. "The requirement was that you had to graduate from an in-state HS with C or better average. The saying was that they had to take you, but they didn't have to keep you. The slaughter in the freshman year was something truly to behold!" Also, out-of-state tuition was ridiculously low. It was common to be able to move there, rent an apt, pay living expenses AND college tuition and still pay less than in-state tuition in your home state." Who would go to a college that had a ROTC enrollment as a requirement? "El cheapos. You didn't have to go into the military on graduation and many found successful ways of avoiding the draft. (Remember, this was THE national sport in those years.] You got a decent college education (remember, the dorks didn't survive the freshman year and soon were cannon fodder) and often no military service, particularly if you graduated in engineering because you could get a job with a deferment. The college Prexy was an unreconstructed southerner who was sure ROTC built MEN." If you say it was so I believe you but that's so out there I'd have to presume the Admin was a trifle fouled up. "See above re the Prexy. There was an anti-war riot while I was there. It was described the next day in the papers as a 'panty raid'. :-) I think the firemen with hoses and the Sheriff's Deputies knew different. :-) They were called in when the campus cops couldn't control it and merchant's windows were being broken and cars set afire."