Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson added that the CEP's reapplication scheme might not have the same effect as SFAC's resolution. "This question of outside control of courses comes primarily with policy-oriented courses," Wilson said. "No one really cares if the Pentagon controls courses on navigation or technology...
...more likely solution--the one I hope for," Wilson said, "would be to have the Pentagon designate some standard Harvard courses as acceptable for ROTC credit...
...course, even though our educational institutions can curb ROTC, they will not necessarily do so. Many universities are more than satisfied with the present arrangements. More than 100 institutions continue to maintain compulsory ROTC in the freshman and sophomore years, despite actual discouragement from the Pentagon, which views compulsory programs as inefficient. The B.U. faculty's uneasiness about the relationship between the education and the military is evidently not shared by many American educators...
...whether the CEP plan will have the same practical effect as the SFAC's--ending academic credit for Pentagon-controlled ROTC courses. If Wilson and Wilcox can convince the Faculty that their re-application scheme will pose an effective bar to ROTC credit, they may win backing from liberals who would otherwise support SFAC...
...been apparent for quite a while that the Defense Department is willing to make large concessions in order to keep ROTC. Course credit was abolished at BU last spring and at Penn this fall, and in both instances the Pentagon found ways to keep ROTC on those campuses. Dean Glimp in fact told the faculty that the Pentagon was willing to be "flexible" about course credit; that they realized the potential of student unrest and were willing to make concessions to forestall it. In the context of this "flexibility," the SFAC-HUC-HPC resolutions, regardless of intent, would have...