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First, the misleading headline: although SFAC did vote down the radical resolution presented to it, it did not vote to retain ROTC. There are two resolutions on ROTC still on the floor, and others may well be introduced...
Second, the inaccurate and distorted body of the article: it erroneously reported that the opening of the floor to discussion by spectators was intended to be a precedent, which it explicitly was not, although many members of SFAC would like future meetings to include discussion by members of the Harvard community of all points of view. Furthermore, it summarized an hour and a half of debate in the phrase "heated discussion," devoting the rest of the article to a painfully short summary of the various positions expressed, and to five minutes of the meeting that contained one argument against...
...long discussion in SFAC Tuesday was one of the few times that a radical point of view on an issue of concern to the Harvard community was presented and defended in an open forum. We feel that the readers of the CRIMSON were entitled to coverage of the not widely reported arguments about the nature of the involvement of the University--and of ROTC in particular--with American foreign and domestic policies, as well as to a review of the more familiar arguments in defense of ROTC, and of the final vote...
...will present its proposal to abolish ROTC before the SFAC meeting today at 4 p.m. in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
...Supposedly SFAC is a concession won by the student movement after the Dow sit-in--but by discussing ROTC in terms of whether or not it should have academic credit, SFAC is really playing the Administration's ballgame, going along with the attempts to mislead the opposition to ROTC," the proposal said...