Brown ROTC Coverage

15 October 1971 Harvard Crimson article "ROTC May Return to Ivy Schools".
28 September 1973 Harvard Crimson article "A Survey of ROTC's Status in the Ivies".
17 October 2001 Brown Daily Herald article "Harvard alumni petition university for reinstatement of ROTC program"
29 October 2001 Brown Daily Herald article "Despite recent events, ROTC not likely to return"
29 October 2001 Brown Daily Herald editorial "Not on our campus"
4 December 2001 Brown Daily Herald column "Brown should create a new, improved ROTC chapter" by Edward Mahaney-Walter.
6 February 2003 Brown Daily Herald article "Brown student participation in ROTC is expected to grow".
20 November 2003 Defense Business Practice Implementation Board meeting minutes. Note: The participants in the Defense Business Board meeting discussed "implementing ROTC programs at top tier schools". Dov Zakheim mentioned the effort to restore ROTC at Columbia and said "I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and he is extremely interested ... We would like to get on the campus at Harvard. The President of Harvard has showed an interest in this." Bill Carr raised the possibility of restoring ROTC at Yale, citing the difficulty of Yale students traveling to ROTC programs at other colleges. He also discussed the tradeoff between getting top tier cadets and paying the high cost of ROTC scholarships to top tier schools. The group recommended to "approach Harvard's President first and if successful, then approach Yale, Columbia and Brown".
16 December 2004 Wall Street Journal article "At Ivy League Schools, ROTC, Long Banned, Plots a Comeback: Push May Stir Up Old Passions On These Elite Campuses; A Beachhead at Harvard". Note: The article discusses the movements to bring back ROTC to Harvard, Columbia, Yale and Brown, backed by the efforts of the Defense Business Board and a request from the military. See letters on 10 January.
21 January 2005 Associated Press article "Decades after Vietnam, ROTC making return effort to Ivy League". Note: The article suggests that the "Captain and a Sergeant" the military plans to post on the Harvard campus will be to run "a recruiting office".
15 February 2005 Brown Daily Herald article "Interest in ROTC minimal at Brown despite debate at other Ivies". Note: Currently there are only two cadets. Another student said "People at Brown are the type of people who should be filling the military in large numbers... I think the military is an institution we should be dedicated to repair and bring into the 21st century."
27 April 2005 Brown Daily Herald article "Brown and the military: 33 years after ROTC, Brown and the military still on unsteady terms". Note: Lt. Col. Steven McGonagle, professor of military science at Providence College said his Brown cadets are "the very best leaders of my battalion here," calling them "really world-class people and great leaders."
28 April 2005 Brown Daily Herald OpEd "Pro-ROTC doesn't mean pro-war" by Brian Barbata '68. Note: Barbata asks "why not "support our troops" by providing them with the best and brightest leaders?"
15 March 2007 Brown Daily Herald column "Reconsidering ROTC at Brown" by Brian Barbata '68. Note: Barbata notes that "For schools like Brown to blindly resist ROTC is a very short-sighted, non-productive stance which clearly has no effect other than to contribute to the gradual downgrading of the officer corps."
19 March 2007 Brown Daily Herald letter "ROTC should be welcome at Brown" by Paul Kechijian MD '61. Note: Kechijian observes that "Men and women interested in ROTC who attend Brown would enrich the University's diversity" and "Brown graduates who serve in the military would bring a diversity of concepts and ideas that might greatly benefit the military".
18 April 2007 Brown Daily Herald Opinion article "Brown and the ROTC?". Note: The article announced a panel discussion to take place that evening on ROTC and issues of the civilian-military divide.
26 April 2007 Brown Daily Herald article "Student group stirs up ROTC debate". Note: Jason Carr '09 and Josh Teitelbaum '08 are founding a pro-ROTC group "to take steps toward breaking down the campus community's isolation from what they say is an important social institution".
26 November 2007 Brown Daily Herald article "ROTC exchange with [Providence College] down to a lone student". Note: The article profiles the lone Brown student enrolled in ROTC, Adam Swartzbaugh '09. Keeping down the numbers is a lack of interest on the part of the Brown community and the attitude of the admissions office towards military service.