Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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According to Faculty legislation passed in April, 1969, ROTC on campus must "operate as other ordinary extracurricular activities with no special privilege or facilities granted either by contract or informal arrangement...
...ARAC members charge that ROTC has been granted "special privilege" because it has held official functions on campus while not complying with the anti-discrimination pledges other officially recognized groups must agree...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said that ROTC did not have official extracurricular status on campus, but said that the College had made "special provisions" to allow the drills to take place periodically. He said it was the same kind of arrangement which allowed the military to recruit on campus...
...disarming modesty. "I'm fortunate to be on a great team," he says. "You can't have great success unless you have a solid, dedicated bunch of players behind you. We keep pecking away with our , possession-type offense, taking what the other side gives us. It's nothing special. Other quarterbacks are stronger and faster than I am." True enough -- Denver's John Elway, Miami's Dan Marino and Philadelphia's Randall Cunningham all have more natural talent -- but no one uses his abilities as effectively. "Joe may not be the best in any one category," says Bill Walsh...
...than Noriega, who often came off as a tin-pot dictator. Yet the similarities were striking. Like many of their kind, both described themselves as reformers, Ceausescu as a leader independent of Moscow, Noriega as a Panamanian nationalist. The U.S. was not above using both when they served its special purposes. Richard Nixon welcomed Ceausescu's help in negotiating the first opening to China; under Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought Noriega's assistance in aiding Nicaragua's contras. But in Ceausescu's 24 years of iron rule and Noriega's six, both eventually proved once again Lord Acton's thesis...