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Dates: during 1960-1969
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February 4: The Faculty voted to strip ROTC of its academic credit and take Corporation appointments away from ROTC instructors. By a 207-125 vote, the Faculty approved a five-point resolution from the SFAC which would take away appointments and credit, remove ROTC courses from the Faculty catalogue, end ROTC's rent-free use of Shannon Hall, and replace lost ROTC scholarships with Harvard money. By the same 200-125 margin, the Faculty rejected the CEP's proposal, which would have made individual ROTC courses apply for credit within existing departments. The other ROTC resolution presented--an SDS-supported...
...effect of the Faculty's vote was not immediately clear. Even though the removal of professional appointments might clash with existing laws, Colonel Pell said he would ask the Pentagon to keep the ROTC units here on a non-credit basis. Pell also pointed out that the Corporation's contract with Army ROTC required a one-year notice before either side could make changes in the ROTC arrangements...
February 20: President Pusey sent a letter of Dean Ford announcing the Corporation's decision on ROTC. Pusey first referred to the Faculty's vote to remove academic credit and Corporation appointments from ROTC courses and instructors. He said that the Corporation "sympathizes with and commends" that effort to control the Faculty curriculum, adding, that the Corporation would try to "negotiate with the various military services in an effort to meet the Faculty's desires." But Pusey then said that the Corporation was pleased to see that the Faculty had not voted to expel ROTC. "It would be shortsighted...
...public relations paranoia strictly the domain of Mr. Pusey. Sometime later in the fall, when several student government organizations proposed withdrawing academic credit from ROTC courses, the Committee on Educational Policy, a sort of faculty executive committee, met to draft a resolution of its own on ROTC. When I called Dean Franklin L. Ford after the meeting to get a text of the resolution, I was told that it would not be released until a news conference two days hence, the morning which was slated to discuss ROTC. Ford had long had an arrangement with the CRIMSON whereby he told...
...better than a 2-1 margin the classmates and their families said that ROTC should be denied academic credit at Harvard, but they likewise affirmed their opinion that students should be able to take ROTC courses at Harvard if they wish...