Tag: ROTC

Vets at Columbia, Then and Now

BY LAUREN SCHULZ In 1968, the Vietnam War was raging and so was Columbia University.  Anti-war students ransacked the ROTC barracks and a year later, the program was banned from campus.  Fights broke out on campus over the war.  Students…

ROTC at Columbia?

BY LAUREN SCHULZ New York – Short black hair, petite build, arms at her side, wearing a pressed white shirt and long skirt, Edith Parks, from the School of Continuing Education, stepped up to the microphone after waiting her turn…