There's been no move to bring it back since then. "ROTC?" one official in Columbia's Public Information Department asked yesterday. "I haven't had a question about ROTC in years."

Brown

Brown University laid its ROTC program to rest in June 1972--its last ROTC students received diplomas as news of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia swept the country.

The program's death there was hardly unexpected, coming three years after the Brown faculty stipulated that future ROTC programs would be non-credit and ROTC professors would have no voting faculty status. Given those and other guidelines in 1969, the Navy decided in 1972 that it could not continue its ROTC program at Brown. The contract was thus allowed to expire in June 1972.

Brown's ROTC program, founded during the First World War and fortified during World War II, had a modest enrollment until 1969, when anti-war sentiment and the shaky status of the program made it an unattractive option. Enrollment was never mandatory, Kelsey Murdoch, assistant to the President of Brown, said yesterday.

Student antiwar protests were mild at Brown in 1969 and afterwards, and the settlement of the ROTC issue fit with the relatively peaceful tone of the campus. A student-faculty-corporation committee studied Brown's ROTC program, reached a negative verdict in 1972, and submitted its report to the faculty. The faculty then affirmed the decision, restating and updating their 1969 guidelines.

Student concern over the presence of ROTC at Brown predated the 1969 climax, but was not an overriding aspect of protest during that year, Murdoch said. When the Navy ROTC contract came up for revision in 1972, however, anti-ROTC teach-ins moved to the center of student life for several weeks prior to the faculty vote, and about 200 students demonstrated when the faculty met that Spring.

Brown's students still don't want to see ROTC renewed. The Faculty and administrators are no longer talking about it. And the Navy isn't interested in a campus where its status is so circumscribed.

Yale

ROTC is so far gone at Yale that even the administrators no longer remember clearly when it began, when it ended or who was in charge of it.

Course credit for ROTC dropped in 1966 when requirements for the undergraduate degree were revised. "It became clear that (since we had reduced the total number of credits required for graduation) we could safely drop credit from ROTC courses," Martin Griffin, associate dean of Yale College, said yesterday.

During the summer of 1968, Griffin said, when antiwar sentiment was more intense, the question became whether or not ROTC belonged on campus at all. "The question translated itself into whether students could drop the ROTC courses from their schedules in the same way they did regular Yale courses," Griffin said.

Yale's ROTC withdrew voluntarily, Griffin said. "Because of the contractual arrangement with students, they were not satisfied with our allowing students to withdraw from their courses," he said.

He said that there were very few students in ROTC at the time and that "they (ROTC) probably would have withdrawn anyway."

There is no obvious movement toward the resurrection of ROTC at Yale, Griffin said. He added that the few students who wanted to participate in ROTC went to the University of Southern Connecticut for it "on a voluntary basis."