Word: curriculum
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...several years now Howard students have asked Administration officials for a larger role in deciding curriculum and regulations on their campus. In an incident two years ago President James Nabrit refused to crown a student-elected homecoming queen because she wore an African hair style. Last year a two-year ROTC requirement was abolished--but only grudgingly, after students held massive demonstrations including a boycott of classes...
...themselves, the revisions voted Wednesday cannot be faulted: the CEP added some solid college courses to the NROTC requirement as well as sifting some of the chaff from the curriculum. But a reform like this carries the danger that the Faculty will feel spared of reconsidering the larger questions around ROTC. Just as fourth course pass-fail for the moment pushed any wide debate on Harvard's grading system aside, the NROTC revisions threaten to bury the issue of whether ROTC has any place in the Harvard curriculum...
Dean Glimp, who was chairman of the Faculty committee that recommended the NROTC changes, defends ROTC's place in the curriculum as part of Harvard's responsibility to the community. Pushing ROTC out of the Harvard program, he argues, would be making the college insular at a time when it should be becoming involved. The analogy might hold if ROTC had not become what it is--mechanism for military recruiting and a narrowly pre-professional program. Harvard gives no academic credit for journalism courses, pre-law courses, or pre-business courses; it should give none for pre-military courses either...
Even in last Wednesday's reforms there was a hint of how shaky any compromise of ROTC with the rest of Harvard's curriculum must be. One of the CEP's recommendations was that seniors in NROTC be required to take a course in American military history or national security policy. Glimp dismissed the difficulty of reconciling what professors May, Kissinger, and Hoffmann teach with what naval officials would like to see their future officers learn. He explained that during some years such a course might not be given, and the College could not promise to create one to satisfy...
Howard officials agreed to create a student judiciary committee to review charges against 37 students for disrupting a University program on March 1st. The Admininstration declared "unnegotiable" the student demand for the resignation of Howard President James Nabrit. They also said that the students' fourth demand for curriculum changes "will require further discussion...