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should carry no academic credit. ROTC cadets are paid, it is controlled by the military, not by the university community, junior and senior cadets cannot drop the course without being drafted, killing has no business being taught at the university, and so on. Bad as some of this is, to oppose ROTC out of a
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Falcipary democracy hit a new low when so many senators were caucusing outside the room that the necessary quorum could not be summoned. Many had gone home, too. Because he thought there was no quorum, President Dave Awbrey had to declare a state of emergency so the election of new senators could be completed. Although he scrounged up a quorum
quo — but don't tell the name too you, read an advertisement in Wednesday's Kansan.
The College Young Republicans are concerned young reformers, the ad said—all under the heading "Oct. 15," the national moratorium date.
CYR man Frank Cook—you can identify him by the peace button on his collar—says
even worse.
Killing and forcing others to kill is the reason for military officers.
ROTC men supposedly are "leaders." What sort of leaders will they be? Men must follow officers. Their alternative is the stockade or brig. To be a leader a man must have voluntary followers. In the army, especially, the role of the ROTC man is
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replaced the British Lion as a symbol of foreign domination. Its preservation beyond our borders depends on crushing military power. Lest someone dismiss this as left wing rhetoric, let me
just one thing. Aren't you afraid someone will
an art teacher at Midwestern State College has been teaching communism in his classroom." The committee gasped. One elderly Republican was so shaken that he dropped his upper plate in his cup of coffee.
cloudy an daaaaay. A tear could be seen on almost every cheek. And the whole damned thing smelled like a moldy buffalo.
"Picasso, gentlemen, is a communist and Prof. Artloeboom has been professing Picasso-
MacArthur also observed that our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor—with the cry of a grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded."
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Today the American military and with it ROTC symbolize
Artleboom?"
"Well doesn't ROTC come under our jurisdiction?" asked the confident Shmultz.
"Well yes, but . . ." began the young member.
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"Don't you see?" asked Shmultz, waving his envelope at the blank-faced committee. "Prof.
Vietnam, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and the various other American duchies around the world the United States stamps its own revolution into the ground.
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Whether they mean to or not, ROTC members and their mindless supporters represent not patriotism—the love of one's country—but chauvinism—the exaltation of one's country over others—which has plunged mankind into war after war since the
Science building and THAT certainly comes under our jurisdiction!" A rousing hand of applause greeted the Senator.
"Brilliant, brilliant," called the old man with coffee dripping from his upper plate. "But
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lew mistaken students who failed to respect the rights of the ROTC cadets, let us look behind the academic facade of ROTC and remember that these men will be violating even more fundamental rights in the years ahead as military officers: the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.