Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROTC loses its academic status, Pell argues, it will be "derogated and reduced to the level of an extracurricular game." Again he misinterprets the college program which is designed to allow students with career interests--politics or journalism, for instance--plenty of time to pursue them outside the regular course structure. It is not clear why those who want to be officers in the military could not do the same...
...raised in Pell's statement, but he gives no evidence to back the threat. Scholarship money is still being given at Boston University, which made ROTC non-credit last year, and Captain Robert Moriarity, director of Naval ROTC at Harvard has told the HUC that scholarships in that program would most likely continue regardless of its status...
Part of the heat being generated against ROTC this fall undoubtedly comes from the war and the gut reaction against a military uniform it has induced. Pell accuses critics of the program of objecting on political rather than academic and administrative grounds, but his own defense of the program is ultimately political too. A supply of well-trained officers is necessary to "the hard-core national interest," he says, and without that supply, "the survival of the nation in a cruel world through the maintenance of adequate deterrent strength will be seriously jeopardized...
...drive ROTC from the campus. But the HUC, HPC, and SFAC, the three student organizations at work on the issue, seem unlikely to recommend that the University sever all relations with ROTC. It would be hard to argue that the student who wants to join an officer's training program should not be allowed to do so. But it is just as indefensible to maintain, as Col. Pell by implication does, that Harvard should be in the business of steering her sons into military management with the lure of a little course credit...
These few will have taken advantage of a Harvard program through which youth groups may receive tickets to those football games where sellout crowds are not expected...