Word: rotc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basically confused pronouncement. The Faculty alone has no business intervening in the status of instructors, if they are henceforth appointed outside its ranks and without regard to its initiative. NO more has it any business legislating about scholarship funds without knowing what students under other FAculties might expect if ROTC stipends were withdrawn. But what bothers me most is the underlying theme of the entire resolution, a desire to go on record against all things military, unaccompanied by rational evaluation of the effects of such action on a large number of non-military people, upon vast questions of foreign policy...
...absolute requirement for the maintenance of such units at the University--the negotiators could come back to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, either with a question as to how to treat that condition or with a flat announcement that the Corporation would offer professorial appointments to the ROTC unit heads, quite outside the structure of this Faculty. (4) The one other alternative I have been able to conceive would be a decision not to accept these recommendations from the the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in their present form, but instead to refer them back to the Faculty...
Since I took no pride of authorship in the CEP motion, the ROTC debate, while unpleasant in many of its respects, has not alone eventuated in what I should consider a vote of lack of confidence. Nevertheless, on issue after issue this winter the Faculty has disregarded the recommendation of its own committees and its own administrative officers, preferring to substitute the quickly formulated product of emotional debate for a considered judgement by people--including many besides myself--who had tried to weigh all the arguments heard at the Faculty meeting, and a number of others as well...
Excuse me for having added this coda on a matter much broader than the ROTC issue as such; but I believe that you and the Corporation are entitled to know the degree to which I now feel out of sympathy with many of the very people for whom I must try to speak, if only so that you may correctly evaluate what I have to say in the Capacity. Yours sincerely, Franklin L. Ford President Nathan M. Pusey Massachusetts Hall
Dean Ford last night confirmed that he wrote the letter to President Pusey on ROTC partially reprinted in yesterday's Old Mole...