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...HPC concludes that it is inappropriate for Harvard to grant academic credit to the three ROTC Departments for the following reasons...
...discussion of the status of ROTC at Harvard reveals that many of the existing conditions are the result of the need to conform to certain minimum conditions required by Public Law. The HPC recommends that academic credit for ROTC courses be withdrawn as a first step in a long-term project of analysis, within the Harvard community, of issues involved in the existence of ROTC programs at Harvard. This report has not considered the main financial aspects of ROTC's status nor the political issues involved in ROTC's existence at Harvard. We have directed our attention to educational policy...
Although no votes were taken, the CEP agreed to invite student representatives from the HUC and HPC to its next meeting. The HUC initiated the discussion of ROTC on campus last month with a resolution calling for abolition of academic credit and Corporation appointments for faculty in ROTC. The HPC is in the process of issuing a separate audit of the ROTC program...
Take away the hawkish bombast, and Pell might have a point--if there really were a movement here to drive ROTC from the campus. But the HUC, HPC, and SFAC, the three student organizations at work on the issue, seem unlikely to recommend that the University sever all relations with ROTC. It would be hard to argue that the student who wants to join an officer's training program should not be allowed to do so. But it is just as indefensible to maintain, as Col. Pell by implication does, that Harvard should be in the business of steering...
...HPC is particularly concerned with the basic policy question of ROTC's privileged pre-professional status. Currently, undergraduates may take essentially vocational ROTC courses but are prohibited from enrolling in courses at the med, ed, law, divinity, and business schools. A discussion of ROTC is on the agenda for Wednesday's HPC meeting...