Same as Vikng, U of I is/was a land grant university and used to require all fresh soph students (male) enroll in the ROTC. Kids who had taken ROTC in high school were made corporals or sargents. It was 1961 and most treated it as a big joke as we hup-2-3ed around the Quad. By 1962 the Student Peace Union had formed and used to picketed the marchers. As 1962 drew to a close and I felt Uncles cold, clammy hand closing aound my young arse I began to pay more attention to the military instruction