ROTC Graduates Poll for Support

Two former ROTC cadets at Harvard have begun polling other ROTC graduates to gain evidence that the group supports the revitalization of military training on campus.

Franklin L. Cunningham 41 and Malcolm Marshall 41 have mailed questionnaires to more than 1500 graduates of ROTC classes from 1923 to 1965. They claim that, of 700 responses, an overwhelming number favor reinstatement of ROTC at Harvard.

Cunningham said yesterday that the poll was undertaken to gain support for undergraduates and graduate students who have campaigned this year for a revival of ROTC.

Cunningham and Marshall-who asked polices to return a portion of the questionnaire to Dean Dunlop-have also sent letters to all University faculty members informing them of their findings. They say they will press for consideration of their poll at an upcoming Faculty meeting.

Dunlop said last night, however, thatthe Faculty would not consider the ROTC issue in the immediate future.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted last June to phase out all ROTC programs by June 1971 after a ROTC negotiating committee disclosed that these programs could not be continued without academic credit. The Faculty had voted in February to deny academic credit to the ROTC program.

A campaign is now in progress to reinstate military training programs in the graduate schools, and Dean May, a member of the ROTC negotiating committee. said yesterday that the ROTC issue could conceivably be reconsidered in terms of sponsorship by a graduate faculty.

John Scovell. a second-year business student and leader of the group of Army ROTC cadets who have petitioned the Law and Business School deans to consider sponsorship of ROTC programs, stated that over half of all ROTC students were enrolled in graduate schools.

Ten per cent of the Law School's students have signed a petition supporting a Law School sponsored ROTC. Dereck C. Bok, dean of the Law School, said that if an arrangement agreeable to the armed forces were reached. he would "pursue the matter" further. Lawrence E. Fouraker. dean of the Business School, was unavailable last night for comment.