Word: rotc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evaluates those six demands as a basis for negotiation, it seems clear to me that they were never meant seriously. The community was asked to support them on the basis of the Corporation's alleged disregard for the Faculty vote removing academic credit from ROTC courses as soon as that could be legally effected, and withdrawing academic status in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the officers of the three ROTC units. The ROTC negotiations now in progress are in fact following precisely the lines laid down by the Faculty vote, on the explicit instructions of the Corporation...
...officer training, and specifically said "break all existing contracts." What's important about this, I think, is not so much the specific terminus ad quem cited, but the relationship in the community's mind between that, which, incidentally, is a demand to ignore the Faculty's vote to retain ROTC but on essentially an extracurricular basis, or at least, to turn it around, to remove curricular credit and let ROTC remain on whatever term could then be worked...
...important thing here is the continuing insistence of may people in this community and indeed in this Faculty, that the Corporation has instructed officers of the University to renegotiate the ROTC contract on some terms other that those voted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This is not true, and I challenge anyone who reads the instruction, first of all, to reply to my formal notification of the Faculty's vote to the Corporation, or the instructions that Dean Glimp relayed to the community through his statement last Monday in the CRIMSON, I challenge anyone to say that anything...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted that academic credit should not be given to ROTC courses and that ROTC officers should not be considered regular members of the Faculty. A committee appointed by the Corporation is working not to thwart this Faculty vote but to carry it out. The SDS demand that Harvard violate its contractual obligations bears not relation to the vote of the Faculty...
...question of replacing ROTC scholarships by other scholarships is not real issue, for this question would be resolved by the scholarship committees of the various faculties if and when the need for such consideration becomes a reality...