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...behalf. He also secured a place in a Navy reserve unit, though Bill never applied for the opening. The story appears to explain why Clinton remained a civilian for 10 months, though classified 1-A. The following year he obtained a formal deferment by agreeing to join an ROTC program in which he never enrolled. Clinton ultimately avoided service by drawing a high number when the lottery system went into effect...
Clinton, famously, applied to the University of Arkansas Law School ROTC as part of his casting about to avoid the Vietnam War. He had intended to go to Fayetteville because the local law school is a great place for forming political connections -- and everyone, by the time he was at Oxford, knew Clinton was permanently running for office. "We would kid him about it, but no one found it offensive," says Peter Hayes, now a historian at Northwestern University...
...group's activism culminated in the springof Gore's senior year when SDS took overUniversity Hall to push for the removal of theReserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and theexpansion of Black Studies at Harvard, among otherissues. The students' confrontation with theadministration ended when then-President Nathan M.Pusey '28 had the police disband the protest byforce...
...faculty kicked ROTC off campus in 1969. butthe University continues to accept ROTCscholarship money and lets Harvard cadets travelto MIT for Classes and drills Opponents of ROTCcharge that the military's policy on gays violatesHarvard Principles of nondiscrimination. But manysay ROTC cadets would not be able to affordHarvard if it weren't for their Scholarships...
Prior to this spring's deadline Dean of theFaculty Jeremy R. Knowles appointed a jointstudent-faculty committee to investigate theissue. But the ROTC committee failed to completeits investigation by the end of the year,preventing the faculty from taking action on thetwo year old ultimatum...