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...following are excerpts from the HPC report on the status of ROTC at Harvard...
...HPC, and SFAC have all suggested that some measures be taken against ROTC as it is now constituted at Harvard. Their suggestions are premised on a liberal assumption: the university is "a neutral haven" for scholarship, in which all points of view are objectively examined. In this community of scholars, all pursuing a "liberal education," the military has no place; what one learns in ROTC courses is of inferior intellectual quality and involves a technical training rather than an academic discipline...
Therefore, the HPC, the HUC, and SFAC seek merely to remove accreditation from ROTC. As the HPC statements says: "Our report is not meant to challenge the existence of ROTC at Harvard, but rather to challenge certain inappropriate aspects of its present status (CRIMSON, 11/15/68). Similarly, the HUC in its statement says: "ROTC could regain all of these privileges by applying for them in the same manner as other Harvard organizations must. . . . These positions, then, in no way challenge the function of ROTC, only its academic status...
Although Dean Ford's invitation gave the heads of the HUC, SFAC, and HPC the right to choose which three of their members would attend the meeting, Glazier conducted a straw poll among the old SFAC members to arrive at a decision...
Kenneth R. Kaufman '69, chairman of the HPC, said that he had not made his decision yet, but that the three who went would be members of the "current" HPC, i.e. the one elected a year ago. He said he was choosing among the "few most involved" in the HPC discussion of the ROTC issue...