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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences may not be able to make a final decision on whether the University should sever all ties with ROTC, acting Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. said yesterday...
...faculty committee examining Harvard's relationship with ROTC told the Faculty Council yesterday that it will have difficulty meeting the original May 1 deadline for its final report, said Fox, who is administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...letter that Clinton composed in a chilly room at the end of 1969 was addressed to Colonel Eugene Holmes, the director of the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas. In three typewritten pages, Clinton explained why he did not enroll in the university's ROTC program as he had previously agreed to do. Getting into ROTC at the university's law school would have given Clinton a four-year draft deferment, but he told Colonel Holmes that he had decided to take his chances with the draft...
Clinton was never called for the draft. His stated intention to enter an ROTC program had already given him two months of exemption. The Nixon Administration cut back on the draft. When the new draft lottery system began on Dec. 1, Clinton drew a very high number (311), and so was never summoned...
Several news organizations, including The NewYork Times, have suggested Clinton misled hisdraft board and never intended to enter ROTC orthe University of Arkansas Law School. Accordingto these news organizations, the governor optednot to enroll in the officers' training programonce it became clear that he would not be drafted...