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...allow ROTC on its campus. But SDS too lacked any formal vehicle to put its proposals before the Faculty. Then, on Nov. 20, SDS pulled a surprise move. As it became clear that the Faculty would consider some ROTC proposals in December, SDS announced that Hilary Putnam would present its case for total expulsion...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: ROTC at Harvard--The Fight This Fall | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...wanted to participate in ROTC, the YPSL members proposed a student referendum on whether ROTC courses should have credit. The referendum would not be binding on the Faculty, and its alternatives would not include the SDS demand to expel ROTC. Like SDS, YPSL got a Faculty member to present its proposal at the Faculty meeting; Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government, revealed it would have a place on the Dec. 3 docket...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: ROTC at Harvard--The Fight This Fall | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...week before the scheduled Dec. 3 Faculty meeting, the SFAC finally held a vote. By a vote of 13 to 3, it passed the resolution that Albritton will present Tuesday. An amalgam of the HUC and HRPC plans, the SFAC resolution offers five steps for ending ROTC's academic status...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: ROTC at Harvard--The Fight This Fall | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS Position Papers: Why ROTC 'Must GO' | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...More than 1100 of these young men (ROTC graduates each year) will become career officers to furnish the hardcore leadership for the future. It is very evident that the present mission of ROTC is the production of officers, not merely to expose students to military training." (Memorandum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS Position Papers: Why ROTC 'Must GO' | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

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