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Dec. 1, 2011

Hindsight: 72 Years Ago

UC and military training

On December 3, 1934, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision in Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California (293 U.S. 245 (1934)) to uphold the state's right to force students in the University of California system to take classes in military training because "instruction in military science is not instruction in the practice or tenets of a religion."

During the prior year, several male students newly enrolled in the UC system who were memb...

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