Text of HUC Resolution On Harvard ROTC

Concerning the discontinuation of the present status of the Reserve Officers Training Corps on the Harvard campus, the Harvard Undergraduate Council:

(1) Requests the Harvard Faculty to withdraw credit from the courses offered by the three branches of ROTC at Harvard;

(2) Requests the Harvard Corporation to withdraw its appointments from instructors of these courses;

(3) Asks the Corporation, in accordance with the above two requests, to withdraw description of the ROTC courses from the Course Catalogue, and to withdraw the automatic allotment of space in Shannon Hall reserved for the ROTC courses.

ROTC could regain all of these privileges by applying for them in the same manner as other Harvard organizations must. ROTC could accomplish this by applying to one or another regular Harvard departments in the same way that SDS did with Soc Rel 148 and HEP did with Soc Rel 136. In this way, ROTC could receive course credit and corporate appointments if its courses warranted such recognition. Presumably, the said departments would wish to consider both the political and academic implications of the ROTC courses, in the same manner as the HUC has done.

It is the sense of the HUC that these changes should be effected beginning with Fall, 1969 with the class of '73 for the four-year program, and the class of '71 for the two-year program. These are contingent on the maintenance of financial aid to the ROTC students who show need. This aid should be maintained by ROTC. If not, the HUC hopes that the Harvard Financial Aid office will give these students special consideration.