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...HUC is now involved in a discussion which should have a significant impact on our community. There is basic agreement among HUC members concerning those broad concepts endorsed Monday night, which thus far include 1) popular election of student representatives, 2) a student review board for each department to assist in tenure decisions, 3) student participation on faculty-administration committees only when assured of the right to participate in the decision itself, and 4) student-Senior Common Room participation in the nomination of Masters. I sincerely hope that we will be able to realize our goals once our proposals...
...CRIMSON report of Monday's meeting left the impression that some members were more interested in radical rhetoric than in results. The HUC is now in the process of establishing a firm commitment to real and responsible student participation in decision-making. We can do this only with a further commitment to following through on our proposals with hard-work and well-reasoned arguments. Neither shallow nor egocentric argumentation will achieve the desired ends; our means must be much more realistic. Maintaining a seriousness of purpose, maturity, diligence, and perseverance is more in keeping with the progress made by student...
Meanwhile, the CEP met yesterday to discuss a milder attack on ROTC. Six undergraduate representatives--four from the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC) and two from the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC)--presented arguments for removing academic credit from ROTC courses and denying ROTC instructors their corporation appointments...
Both the HRPC and the HUC had passed resolutions earlier this month asking for changes in ROTC's academic status, and the HRPC issued a ten-page report on Sunday attacking "the role of the military in a liberal arts institution...
Colonel Pell indicated in a written statement to the HUC that academic credit is a definite inducement to take ROTC programs. Is academic credit an inducement at Harvard? Of 142 NROTC members, 79 per cent take Naval Science as a fifth or sixth course. All 49 members of the Air Force program take Aerospace Studies as a fifth course. ROTC grades are, however, counted in computation of a student's rank list group, and a grade in a ROTC course will substitute for any lower grade...