Marine Recruiting Visit Cancelled Due to 'Lack of Student Interest'

The Marine Corp's second Harvard recruiting appearance this year has been cancelled, John B. Fox Jr. '59, director of the Office for Graduate and Career. Plans, said yesterday.

Fox reported that the cancellation of Major Donald E. Hubbard's recruiting stint is due to "lack of student interest. No one signed up this year. They might feel it is worth while to appear for one or two people, but this man apparently didn't."

Hubbard said yesterday afternoon that he had not known of the cancellation. "I was called and told that there were no applicants and that there would be no need for us on campus. I thought I would let the decision sit in limbo until Friday morning. I'm just down the street and I'd like to come," he said.

Robert Ginn, assistant director of the OGCP, said last night, "I personally called Hubbard Wednesday. I told him that no one had signed up and that I would call him if anyone came in before 5 p. m. Thursday. Otherwise he was not to come."

Student Plans

Students seldom make plans in the middle of the year to go into the service, Ginn said. "If a student is going to be drafted, he knows it in the fall," Ginn said.

Hubbard was not available for comment last night. He said yesterday afternoon, "A threat of demonstration is a factor which makes me not want to cancel. I would rather have a discussion session than a no-show or be declared loser by default."

Gilbert L. Bagot '73, speaking for Harvard-Radeliffe SDS, yesterday called Fox's explanation "obviously not true.

We showed the administration last year that any time a military recruiter would come people would try to stop him. Especially after Laos, the administration did not want a student confrontation with military recruiters."

The Marine recruiter's fall appearance had met with 50 demonstrators in a confrontation at the OGCP building. At that recruitment session, two students had signed for interviews.