January 9, 2011
After Repeal of 'Don't Ask,' Elite Colleges Rethink ROTC
Eileen Barroso, Columbia U.
On Veterans Day in 2010, student military veterans and ROTC members led the first of planned weekly flag raisings at Columbia U.
Victoria Migdal, a cadet at Harvard University, is something of a novelty on her campus of 6,600 undergraduates.
Forty years ago, hundreds of cadets strode the paths of Harvard Yard. Today Ms. Migdal, a junior majoring in neurobiology, is one of only four undergraduates in Army ROTC, and one of 19 across the services. She trains at the neighboring Massachusetts Institute of Technology because Harvard, like Columbia, Yale, and several other elite universities, expelled ROTC, an
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