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...matter of interest, Harvard's freshman enrollment in Army ROTC dropped 37 per cent this year, also more than the national average; but the loss was more than compensated by a record-shattering gain of 308 per cent in Military Science III enrollment--largely students from the Harvard Law School...
...matter of faculty status for service officers assigned to ROTC duty, this is a requirement of law. It follows that no one in the Department of Defense could possibly have the authority to waive that requirement. The Congress could change the law, of course, but the purpose of the provision in the first instance--insuring a respectable position and status for the ROTC program on every college campus, insuring that the program is not categorized as a college game--would be sacrificed. Is such a change necessary or desirable from the viewpoint of the military departments? It is extremely doubtful...
...fact that two-thirds of the Army ROTC enrollment at Harvard consists of law (graduate) students and the fact that only 20 per cent of the undergraduate students actually use ROTC for degree credit make the question of academic credit essentially irrelevant. If this be the case, then it becomes the principal argument against any precipitous change in the amount of credit granted at this time. It must be noted that any diminution of the ROTC image at this time will represent only step one in the anti-ROTC radicals' ultimate goal of totally discrediting and destroying ROTC...
...that many of the nation's colleges and universities will soon tend to change their relationships with the military by abolishing academic credit for ROTC courses and by generally withdrawing official university sanction from ROTC activities. Certain aspects of ROTC's position on the campuses are now specified by law (e.g., the full professorships for the militarily-appointed commanders of ROTC units), but these requirements could likely be lifted under pressure from the colleges. The armed forces need the skilled manpower provided by the colleges more than the colleges need ROTC money...
...PUBLIC LAW requires only that 1) the senior officer of each ROTC Unit hold the rank of full Professor 2) that course offerings be included in Harvard's curriculum and 3) that Harvard and the ROTC Units meet all the stipulations of the contracts between Harvard and the Secretaries of the participating Military Services. The withdrawal of academic credit would not specifically challenge the law, but would challenge the stipulations of the contracts. At the joint consent of Harvard and the Military Services, the contracts could legally be modified...