Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROTC Units on an ad hoc basis and maintains ultimate power of approval or disapproval on course offerings and accreditation. Though the ROTC Units seem to have a great deal of freedom to work with Harvard on curricular matters, cooperation and a measure of freedom do not change the basic condition that Harvard has no assurance that its demands will always be met. It is our view that ultimately the ROTC Departments are the Defense Department, rather than true Harvard Academic or Administrative Departments...
...modified by withdrawing academic credit for ROTC course offerings. This recommendation is not meant to challenge the existence of ROTC programs at Harvard. We do feel, however, that change in the present status is necessary if ROTC is to remain at Harvard and its existence not contradict the basic educational principles of the liberal arts institution...
...granted, there is no legal reason why the contracts cannot be amended. It has in fact proved possible to amend the Army contract to waive, in a given year and with the permission of the Secretary of the Army, the requirement that 100 members be enrolled in the basic course whenever the basic course is given...
...spread, that the Army will need to become bigger and better trained. As Sam Huntington points out: "Instead of small regular forces backed up by a large reserve and mobilization potential, the requirement now is for substantial, ready, professional forces in being." (Samuel Huntington, APSR, 1959, 1154-55). Some basic facts about ROTC underscore these tendencies...
Timothy D. Gould '69, one of the organizers of the symposium, said he will definitely organize a political union, to be called the Coalition for a Democratic University, to continue discussion of "changes more basic to the university." The union's steering committee will be composed of students from the symposium, graduate students, faculty members and interested students in the Houses where chapters of the Coalition are formed. Gould hopes to begin with chapters in Adams and Dunster Houses...