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...HOUSE Un-American Activities Committee has lost its good name. A bill to rechristen it "House Committee on Internal Security" passed the House last week 305 to 79, but only after a motion to abolish the old name weathered a 262 to 123 vote. Richard Ichord (D-Mo.), the new chairman of HUAC (or HISC), had little reason to expect such heavy opposition from the liberals. The "un-American" in HUAC's old name had been a fighting word to them, a chauvinist smear. The New Republic, for example, editorialized: "At present a lot of Congressmen vote funds...
Some of the demonstrators carried anti-ROTC signs and chanted "Abolish ROTC" and "ROTC Must Go." The only apparent reaction to the demonstration came when a passing student ripped down two signs that had been stapled to the Mass. Hall door...
...Abolish ROTC--the only just position...
During the course of this fall, a number of students have expressed the sentiment that the Campaign to abolish ROTC was at best quixotic, and perhaps even disruptive in intent. This leaflet is aimed at showing very concretely 1) that ROTC is a significant issue, one that must be fought and won; and 2) that the response of the Administration to the Dec, 12 "sit-in" at Paine Hall is the direct result of this importance. Most of the information in this leaflet comes from a memorandum sent by Army ROTC to the Committee on Educational Policy(CEP) including...
Earlier this year, the faculty senate at the University of Pennsylvania's college of Arts and Sciences voted to abolish ROTC course credit, starting in two years, with the class of 1974. The university's Engineering and Business schools are now considering how they should deal with the problem...