Word: pelle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of pre-professionalism is revelant only in a liberal arts institution. In his October 4, 1968 statement, Colonel Pell said...
...objections to ROTC units at Harvard are based on opposition to the American government's policies in Vietnam and other nations in the underdeveloped world. Because we see this policy as an expansionist and counter-revolutionary one, our objections to ROTC are definitely political and go beyond what Colonel Pell rightly calls "academic/administrative issues" such as merely depriving ROTC of course credit. The "right" to be trained by ROTC as an officer in the United States Armed Forces is an opportunity, in Colonel Pell's words, to "stand at the head of a platoon of 44 other young Americans...
...POSSIBILITY that dis-credited, ROTC might withdraw the substantial financial aid it provides students here is raised in Pell's statement, but he gives no evidence to back the threat. Scholarship money is still being given at Boston University, which made ROTC non-credit last year, and Captain Robert Moriarity, director of Naval ROTC at Harvard has told the HUC that scholarships in that program would most likely continue regardless of its status...
Part of the heat being generated against ROTC this fall undoubtedly comes from the war and the gut reaction against a military uniform it has induced. Pell accuses critics of the program of objecting on political rather than academic and administrative grounds, but his own defense of the program is ultimately political too. A supply of well-trained officers is necessary to "the hard-core national interest," he says, and without that supply, "the survival of the nation in a cruel world through the maintenance of adequate deterrent strength will be seriously jeopardized...
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...