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Aside from Congressional resentment, official Republican policy could also pose a fundamental threat to needy students. Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan, who would be Speaker of a Republican House, sees the tax credit plan which passed the Senate last year as the final solution to student aid problems. The plan also received prominent mention in the GOP platform...
Ford's proposal would allow anyone who pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax credit" is a difficult phrase to resist, though, and only sustained opposition from the Johnson Administration killed it in the House last year...
...meeting last night, Lance E. Lindblom '70, and James E. Sedney '70 touched off a long and heated debate when they submitted a report on ROTC status at Harvard which included a three-page letter justifying academic credit from Colonel Pell, head of the Army unit at Harvard...
...defense of academic credit, Colonel Pell said "it is a historic fact that stu- dents were persuaded and influenced to take ROTC, when they otherwise didn't have to, and perhaps were disinclined to do so, because they could also receive academic credit toward their degree...
Pell said that dissatisfaction with academic credit for ROTC is linked to antiwar sentiment--a political, not academic issue that should not involve ROTC status. "The minimum military skills a student is taught in college," he said, "are not radically different from many other skills taught in the typical institution of higher learning today...