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1972 & Beyond
ROTC
1972–1977
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1972 & Beyond
ROTC
February 17, 1972
“Navy to boycott Stanford graduate courses due to ROTC ban”
Palo Alto Times.
72 & Beyond: Navy Boycott (pdf, 1.3 MB)
March 2, 1972
“ROTC Decision Broadly Based”
Letter to Editor from Provost Miller, Palo Alto Times.
72 & Beyond: Miller letter (pdf, 610 KB)
May 31, 1973
ROTC to end in June
“More than a half century’s association between Stanford and the Reserve Officers Training Corps will come to a close June 16 …” Stanford University News Service.
72 & Beyond: ROTC to End (pdf, 1 MB)
August 1, 1973
“Values of ROTC”
Speech by Provost William Miller, as reprinted in the Congressional Record.
72 & Beyond: Values of ROTC (pdf, 2.3 MB)
December 11, 1973
“ROTC reinstatement petitioned” by “some Stanford University professors."
Palo Alto Times, December.
72 & Beyond: Reinstatement petitioned (pdf, 724 KB)
January 8, 1974
“Faculty Senate To Consider ROTC Reinstatement”
The Stanford Daily.
72 & Beyond: Senate Considers (pdf, 1.6 MB)
January 9, 1974
“Lyman Would Favor Modified ROTC Plan”
The Stanford Daily.
72 & Beyond: Lyman would favor (pdf, 835 KB)
January 11, 1974
“Proposals to restore ROTC at Stanford received little apparent support during a Faculty Senate …”
Stanford University Press Release.
72 & Beyond: Little Support (pdf, 4 MB)
c. 1974
“Stop ROTC: Military on Campus”
Opinion, The Stanford Daily.
72 & Beyond: Stop ROTC (pdf, 1.9 MB)
January 11, 1974
“Faculty Senate Defers Decision on ROTC”
The Stanford Daily.
72 & Beyond: Senate Defers (pdf, 1.1 MB)
January 25, 1974
"The Faculty Senate has indefinitely postponed a request that it consider initiation of new ROTC…”
Stanford University Press Release.
72 & Beyond: Indefinitely Postponed (pdf, 4 MB)
March 7, 1975
“Stanford polled on interest in ROTC”
Palo Alto Times.
72 & Beyond: Polling (pdf, 1.2 MB)
May 28, 1975
“Stanford Students enter ROTC Program at SCU”
San Jose Mercury.
72 & Beyond: ROTC at SCU (pdf, 2.7 MB)
May 29, 1975
“Seven in ROTC Off Campus”
The Stanford Daily.
72 & Beyond: Off Campus ROTC (pdf, 584 KB)
November, 1975
“Where is ROTC?”
Argument for a return of ROTC Stanford’s Direction, New Founders League.
72 & Beyond: Where is ROTC (pdf, 7.4 MB)
June, 1976
ROTC—A Return to Stanford
Stanford’s Direction, New Founders League.
72 & Beyond: ROTC Return (pdf, 9.1 MB)
October 26, 1977
“ROTC Program: yesterday, today, tomorrow”
“Alumni group hopes to reinstate ROTC,” “ROTC at Stanford : sit-ins and strikes,” and “Student interest in ROTC on the upswing,” The Stanford Daily.
72 & Beyond: Yesterday Today Tomorrow (pdf, 12.8 MB)
July 18, 1978
“Alums view ROTC return”
The Stanford Daily.
72 & Beyond: Alums view (pdf, 2.9 MB)
December, 1979
“The Time for R.O.T.C. is Now”
Stanford’s Direction, New Founders League.
72 & Beyond: Time is Now (pdf, 12.9 MB)
November 23, 1983
“ROTC Enlistment Rising Among Stanford Students”
Stanford University Press Release.
72 & Beyond: Enlistment Rising (pdf, 665 KB)