- 28 September 1973 Harvard Crimson article "A
Survey of ROTC's Status in the Ivies".
- 21 February 1975 Harvard Crimson article "Dartmouth
Faculty Rejects Proposal to Reinstitute ROTC".
- 18 April 1994 Harvard Crimson article "Dartmouth
Decides To Maintain ROTC Ties".
- 14 May 2001 Dartmouth Review article "Be
All You Can Be in the ROTC" by Alexander Talcott
- 28 September 2001 The Dartmouth letter "Recognizing
ROTC"
- 2 October 2000 Dartmouth Review column "Colleges' Housing Hypocrisy"
by Steven Menashi
- 3 October 2001 The Dartmouth article "More students express interest in ROTC"
- 14 November 2001 The Dartmouth article "Apathy
replaces the controversy that surrounded ROTC during the Vietnam-era, few
students choose ROTC today".
Reader
letter.
- 10 April 2003 The Dartmouth article "As war continues, students prepare for military service:
College ROTC trainees take conflict in stride".
- 12 January 2004 The Dartmouth article "Far
from Hanover, military alums reflect".
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6 February 2004 Dartmouth Free
Press column "Student
Soldiers at Dartmouth" by Welton Chang.
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20 February 2004 Dartmouth Free
Press column "ROTC:
Five Years of Obscurity" by Welton Chang.
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5 March 2004 Dartmouth Free
Press column "Life
in the Dartmouth ROTC" by Welton Chang.
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5 May 2005
The
Dartmouth article "ROTC may receive full college grants from Army".
Note: A student-initiated request may lead to an upgrade of ROTC
funding and status at Dartmouth.
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30 June 2005 The Dartmouth article "ROTC
garners student support; admin. split". Note:
Dartmouth College President James Wright is described as supporting ROTC in
private but being "afraid of the faculty". A poll showed students
supportive of ROTC but opposing the "Don't
ask, don't tell" law.
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19 October 2005 The Dartmouth
article "Assembly
divides over ROTC statement". Note: A proposal would increase the ROTC scholarships and open them to students who were openly gay.
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6 January 2006 The Dartmouth article "ROTC
cadets to receive full financial support". Note: The Army is matching the arrangements already in place for ROTC students at other institutions such as Harvard and Stanford.
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22 February 2006 Wall Street Journal editorial "Veritas
at Harvard". Note: The Journal notes how ROTC was one
of the issues of contention between President Summers and the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, and notes a similar conflict faced by former Dartmouth
president David McLaughlin.
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18 May 2006 The Dartmouth article "Three
seniors to accept ROTC Army commission". Note: The
three "are ranked among the top five percent of 4,500 Cadets on the National
Order of Merit List".
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5 February 2008 The Dartmouth column "Now
Help ROTC" by Phil Aubart '10. Note: With the advent
of Dartmouth's newly generous financial aid program, Aubart describes what
happened to him as an ROTC cadet. "I started receiving the ROTC
scholarship in winter term my freshman year. I then lost all of my financial
aid, even money from fall term when I was not receiving the ROTC scholarship
— I was stuck paying 100 percent tuition my freshman fall." He notes
that "Over 100 schools across the country grant free room and board to ROTC
scholarship recipients" and suggests the same for Dartmouth.
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22 February 2008 The Dartmouth article "ROTC:
Band of Brothers or 4-Letter Word?" Note: The article
describes the history of ROTC at Dartmouth and the current small ROTC
program.
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20 May 2008 The Dartmouth article "Student
veterans build solidarity in new group". Note:
Veterans at Dartmouth have established the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans
Association.
- 13 October 2008 The Dartmouth article "Groups
support return of ROTC to Ivy League".
- 22 October 2008 The Dartmouth article "Iraq
veteran, writer Fick ‘99 celebrated in HBO series". Note:
"Fick remembers hearing a speech by Tom Ricks, then the Wall Street
Journal’s Pentagon correspondent, in which Ricks advocated ROTC recruitment
on college campuses. When asked how he could condone militarizing college
campuses, Ricks insisted, “No, you’re wrong, it will liberalize the
military.”"
- 27 September 2009 Boston Globe article "ROTC’s ranks surge with new recruits: Sense of mission, scholarships drive trend". Note: Army ROTC enrollment is up 26% from the recent low in 2005-6, during the Iraq war. There has been a 75% increase in the number of ROTC scholarships but Norwich University president Richard Schneider, a Vietnam veteran and retired rear admiral in the Coast Guard Reserve said "This isn’t driven by money. It’s driven by a deep commitment to the republic." At Norwich, the number of freshmen with Army ROTC scholarships jumped more than threefold this year, to 87 from 27. Norwich is unusual in that the university has a special fund to pay room and board for ROTC students, in addition to tuition and fees paid for by the military. Nationally, 51 percent of ROTC students now receive federal scholarships.
- 19 November 2009 The Dartmouth article "College one of few Ivies with ROTC". Note: "The College gives the ROTC program a $10,000 annual training budget and a place to meet, according to Maj. Lawrence Forsyth, assistant professor of military science for Army ROTC at Dartmouth. Dartmouth’s chapter is a satellite of the program at Norwich University, meaning the faculty who train students commute from Northfield, Vt.
Twelve students are currently enrolled in the ROTC program
... Military classes are given for academic credit at Cornell, [Lt. Col. Steven Alexander, professor of military science and leadership at Cornell] said.
At Princeton, however, administrators will not consider offering academic credit for ROTC participation because of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, according to Col. John Stark, professor of military science at the university.“As long as this policy is in place, they will not even discuss the possibility of accreditation,” Stark said. “Last year, I sought to achieve academic credit, but now I am going with the status quo until the national policy has been changed.”
Dartmouth does not offer academic credit for ROTC courses, Forsyth said."
