The Service Academies: Military, Naval, Air Force, and Coast Guard (/imported-20110121194859/2008/9/2/attending-us-service-academies.html) provide excellent education and training for students intending to serve in the armed forces upon graduation. ROTC programs are another means to the same end: /imported-20110121194859/2011/4/8/the-rotc-reserved-officers-training-corps-scholarship.html. Then, there is a hybrid of the services academies and ROTC: the senior military colleges.
To some, Occidental College excites: Barrack Obama spent a year there; Jack Kemp, the former vice presidential candidate and quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, also attended. To others, it stirs no more emotion than drinking lukewarm coffee at a PSTA meeting. Whatever your view, the campus is gorgeous; it rises to the top of Eagle Rock and offers beautiful glimpses of LA, with robust eucalyptus trees and buildings by the master architect Myron Hunt, who also designed the Huntington Library.
