Navy ROTC and veteran-friendly campus earn a national salute

Yale senior Emily Quisenberry steps lively from her room in Grace Hopper College to meet friends outside Sterling Memorial Library on a bright Friday afternoon. She’s got all the gear she needs to greet the rest of her day on campus: cell phone, laptop, backpack — and military fatigues.

Quisenberry’s buddies, more than two dozen of them, also are dressed in camo. As they grab their packs and head to Sudler Hall for their weekly Yale Naval ROTC military science lab, their uniformed presence barely draws notice from fellow students walking by or sitting at outdoor tables.

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