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...goals of higher education is to instill an appreciation of other cultures and races. But the outbreak of racial antagonism that has plagued campuses from Dartmouth to Berkeley over the past few years has jeopardized that objective. Last month the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin took a first step toward restoring some measure of racial civility. If the state legislature approves the plan adopted by the regents, students caught hurling racial epithets in a threatening manner will be expelled from school...
...Stanford, students participating in ROTC are also sent to neighboring colleges, says Capt. Dennis W. Miner. He says that Navy ROTC students must spend at least an hour commuting to the University of California at Berkeley for instruction, while Army and Air Force ROTC units meet at the University of California at Santa Clara and San Jose State University, respectively...
...state-funded schools established as land-grant colleges, charters included provisions for military science education, leaving students with little say over the matter. So at Berkeley and Cornell--which is also partly private--some ROTC programs maintain on-campus presences, despite the efforts to remove them...
Students at Cornell and Berkeley tried in the late 1960s and early 1970s to "boot" ROTC from campus, says Miner. But since the school is partly state-funded, the ROTC units were preserved...
Born in Worcester, Mass., Hoffman studied psychology at Brandeis University in the placid 1950s, then went on to graduate work in the headier atmosphere of the University of California, Berkeley. By the mid-1960s, after a stint as a traveling pharmaceutical salesman, he was living among the hippies in New York City and devoting himself to opposing the Viet Nam War. "Personally I always held my flower in a clenched fist," he once wrote...