CEP Will Discuss ROTC, HPC's Pass-Fail Today

Robert H. Pell, professor of Military Science, will appear before the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy today to discuss whether the senior-year ROTC course should receive academic accreditation.

In an afternoon of fact-finding, the CEP will also hear members of the Harvard Policy Committee explain their views on pass-fail possibilities, the language requirement, and a free fifth course.

The senior-year Army ROTC course, Military Science 4hf, currently receives full half-course academic credit and runs throughout the year. It includes three one-hour classes and a two-hour drill period each week. Although a ROTC cadet must pass this course to be eligible for commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Reserves, the final decision on commissions depends on the opinion of the Professor of Military Science and his staff. The CEP discussion with Pell is simply to decide whether the course should receive full-half course credit.

Military Science 4hf is entitled "Operations and Military Administration" in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences course catalogue. According to the Harvard ROTC handbook, the grading criteria are as follows:

* Operations--13 per cent (duties of the General Staff, companies, platoons, and the entire order and hierarchy of the military organization);

* Logistics--13 per cent (supplies);

* Army administration--13 per cent (the structure of military organization);

* Military law--13 per cent;

* Role of the United States in world affairs--7 per cent;

* Mapreading--5.5 per cent;

* Leadership laboratory, 35.5 per cent (marching skills).

HPC chairman Henry R. Norr '68 and Alan R. Cohen '68 are the two members of the HPC who will exchange information with the Faculty members of the CEP today. Norr plans to read a brief statement explaining the HPC's views on the advantages of a fourth-course pass-fail system.