Word: extracurricular
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Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology and author of the Faculty's April 17 ROTC resolution, said in a letter to the CRIMSON that the intent of the Faculty vote was to phase out ROTC, leaving "at most an undergraduate extracurricular group with none of the special privileges and facilities required by a regular ROTC operation...
Dean Glimp was quoted in Rap-Up 2 as saying that the head of ROTC might have a position similar to that of the Director of Athletics. Bruner said that the Department of Athletics was not an example of the type of ordinary extracurricular activity that the Faculty was referring to in its resolution...
...need not now go through another period of indecisive "interpretation" by negotiating committees. It was the intent of my resolution, of the seconding speeches, and, I believe, of the Schelling Amendment to phase out ROTC in its present traditional form, to leave in its place at most an undergraduate extracurricular group with none of the special privileges and facilities required by a regular ROTC operation. It was not the intent of the Faculty to create a "front" for ROTC, but rather to make possible some sort of bridge between students and various service training functions to be carried on outside...
...reported in the CRIMSON of April 21, that rent-free occupation of Shannon Hall would be inconsistent with the principle of the Bruner resolution. I would also urge that the provision of Shannon Hall by the University even for a generous rent would be inconsistent with the principle. Ordinary extracurricular activities do not have such privileges and facilities, nor the financial backing of the Department of Defense...
...ROTC has been reduced in status to an extracurricular activity, with no more and no less privilege that SDS," Chalmers added, to the cheers from the crowd. "If the strike ends we will not return to normal--we are moving into an era of change. But change must be made not with haste...