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...Yale College faculty last week declared war on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. It voted to take academic credit away from ROTC courses and to strip officers commanding the units of their professorial rank. Swift approval by the Yale Corporation seemed all but certain...
Yale thus joins other colleges that have made ROTC an entirely extracurricular affair. Although Yale has given academic credit for ROTC for more than 50 years, Arthur W. Galston, professor of biology and chairman of the faculty course of study committee, insisted that the decision was based "solely on the academic merits." Galston and his colleagues have apparently just discovered that "ROTC is like singing in the Whiffenpoofs-a perfectly fine activity, but one that we don't think merits any academic standing." Not all professors were even that dispassionate. J. P. Trinkaus, another biologist and master of Branford...
...undergraduates enrolled in ROTC think of the modern military as a low-level trade. Most are convinced that the faculty is being inconsistent. Says Hewitt Chapman, a junior taking Navy ROTC: "I think the faculty is playing politics. There are plenty of other courses that don't deserve credit, and the faculty shouldn't decide on the basis of political prejudice which ones...
...other developments, the American Legion will conduct an investigation into the reason for the denial of ROTC course credit at Harvard and Boston University...
...earliest possible time, the Committee should organize and add to Harvard course offerings, a colloquium or colloquia open to students interested in Afro-American Studies. It should work with other Departments and other Committees to insure that concentration credit will be awarded for these colloquia...