Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter to your readers, published October 2, 1973, I stated, "mass military forces now are not only completely unnecessary, but even dangerous." Military forces such as provided through the ROTC, Reserves and National Guard, are dangerous because their primary purpose is not national defense, but the promotion of the military mind in an age when international cooperation and peace are absolutely essential...
Unless the propaganda program that mass military forces are essential is abandoned, nothing can prevent this nation from becoming a warfare state. The ROTC and Reserves are part of this massive brain pollution program. The military-industrial-financial complex is the most powerful lobby in the history of man. It should not surprise any informed person that the Armed Forces Committees of both houses of Congress, which are dominated by this lobby, should support laws to prevent any Federal funds from going to educational institutions which have abolished ROTC. Both committees, however, are willing to restore such funds...
Shane's Response: Silber does not appoint the hearing examiner directly; he does appoint the Advisory Judicial Council which, in turn, appoints the hearing examiner. The ROTC poll was "highly publicized" only after it had taken place. Neither faculty nor students knew of the poll in advance. There was no public discussion beforehand of the poll or Silber's arguments in favor of ROTC. The Faculty Senate Council, which, as Bennett says, represents "the entire BU faculty" resolved in April to table any discussion of ROTC until this Fall. Mr. Bennett is correct about the drafting committee...
...terms. It argues that the poll would have sampled student opinion on Harvard's research for the American military and influenced Bok and the Corporation in their dealings with the Defense Department; but it doesn't explain how or why that opinion would have emerged from a vote on ROTC...
...CHUL has or seeks the right to limit what undergraduates may think about. It was the committee's opinion that the student body wants no part of ROTC. Since this is also the present attitude of the Faculty, a referendum on the subject would be unnecessary and possibly destructive. The CHUL is not guilty of letting sleeping dogs lie: Its decision was not to unearth a rotting corpse...