<p>What can you tell me about rotc students at Cornell? How are they treated?</p>
<p>could you be a little more specific?</p>
<p>how are they treated by other students? how are they treated in rotc? how are they treated by upper classmen? how are they treated by employers? by teachers?</p>
<p>I'm curious about how fellow non-rotc students feel about rotc students. I've read rotc units aren't particularly welcome on some campuses. As a potential rotc student, I am wondering what the prevailing attitude is on campus.</p>
<p>If you're worried about the sort of nonsense Yale ROTC students have had to put up with (driving themselves to Storrs CT to drill), you won't find that to be the case at Cornell.</p>
<p>While Cornell's administration has shirked a little bit in honoring it's men and women who've committed to ROTC, (they just this year decided to have a memorial service on Veterans' Day at Lyon...), the student body is generally neutral to supportive of people in ROTC.</p>
<p>I was at Appel just yesterday, and there were several students in ACUs, eating breakfast just like any other student, with other students. ROTC cadets are regular students, RAs, etc....
You'll see them in the uniforms of their service, all about Cornell (but mostly around Barton), there are people in Army cams, Navy suits, MARPAT.....
They go to class, study in the libraries....It's not like people shy away to the sides of a hallway as they walk through, and it's not like the only people they talk to/talk to them are in ROTC.</p>
<p>Two of my RCA's during Summer College were in ROTC (sadly, one of them was killed in a car accident), and everyone, I mean everyone, liked them. That might be more of a testament to the sort of people they were, but they lived the values of their service.
If you're contemplating ROTC, you can contact ROTC officials at Cornell, they'll be more than happy to help.</p>
<p>My impression is that most students here are neutral about ROTC students. I personally do not treat them any differently than I do other students, and I don't see why anyone else should either.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that Cornell was one of the few top schools not to disband its ROTC units in the face of the Vietnam War protests. Military classes were required of all male Cornell students until mid-century, and as a result, Cornell produced more students to become commissioned officers in the Great War than any of the service academies.</p>
<p>It's a non-issue.</p>
<p>Do not worry. In general, Cornell students separate between those that serve in the military and those that lead the military. So I doubt you are going to see people ragging on ROTC students. I mean Cornell students are better than that. If anything, ROTC students are respected because they have to take additional courses besides their regular courses and have a very tiring exercise regimen. You are not going to see people throwing paint on uniformed ROTC students.</p>