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...outcome, by and large, is encouraging. In passing over the recommendations of its own Committee on Educational Policy to adopt the resolution of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, the Faculty showed itself sensitive to student opinion and willing to break with tradition. The decision will strengthen the SFAC, which only a few months ago appeared beaded for oblivion. And most importantly, it strikes a blow against the privileged position of the military forces at Harvard, something which the equivocal and vague CEP recommendation would not have done...
...have advocated outright abolition of ROTC at Harvard as a way of attacking the pernicious Cold War partnership between the military and the universities which ROTC embodies. The SFAC resolution, while implicitly recognizing that ROTC is a political as well as an academic issue, does not approach this fundamental problem, and so yesterday's decision should not be the final episode of the ROTC debate here. But in the absence of any clear majority sentiment in the Harvard community in favor of complete abolition of ROTC, yesterday's decision was the most that anyone could have asked...
Wilson said that the CEP's plan--forcing ROTC courses to reapply for credit rather than flatly denying credit as SFAC asks--is "a better way, more consistent with Faculty principles, of achieving essentially the same goal as the other proposal...
...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...
Representing the SFAC-HUC-HRPC resolution to deny ROTC academic credit, Kenneth M. Glazier '69 stressed the "impropriety" of ROTC's privileged status on campus. He pointed out that the SFAC resolution leaves open the option for ROTC to organize as an extra-curricular activity...