AFROTC Unit Not to Argue With Decision

The College's AFROTC cadet staff decided yesterday not to protest its unit's dissolution, but instead, to help maintain "the efficiency" of its cadet corps.

Previously, members of the unit had expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the Air Force's decision to disband Harvard's AFROTC in 1957. One member of the staff had even advocated sending a petition to Washington protesting the action.

But in its first meeting since the Air Force's sudden announcement, the cadet group said it "realized that its mission has been somewhat altered." It will, however, "do everything in its power to aid Col. Waldo B. Jones and his staff in maintaining the morale, academic standards, and efficiency of the corps."

Cadot Col. Peter F. Morrison '56 said the unit will carry on as usual for the remainder of the year with the same discipline and drill programs. The detachment staff will aid freshmen in making transfers to either the Army or Navy ROTC, provided the other units agree to take in AFROTC men, he added.

Last Tuesday, the Air Force announced that units which had not been producing enough fliers and which were thought to be economically "unprofitable" would be dissolved in 1957. Other schools affected were Tufts, Columbia, Amherst, and Williams.