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More than a decade after it was forced off campus, the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) is staging a comeback. Through cross-registration at MIT. 41 Harvard students are enrolled in the Army ROTC--a 65 per cent jump from last year--and 29 are in the Air Force program. And this week, on the 12th anniversary of the occupation of University Hall, some ROTC officials are confidently predicting that Harvard will have its own detachment again within six years...
Although this year's enrollment figures are particularly dramatic, ROTC has been growing steadily since the Faculty voted five years ago to allow cross-registration in the MIT program. Col. John S. Kark, professor of military science at MIT, says the number of Harvard students in ROTC is now enough to meet Army "viability standards" for a separate detachment. "We have more Harvard students [in the Army program] now than we did in the last several years of the Harvard detachment," he adds...
Navy ROTC, which was the largest of Harvard's three detachments in 1969, now has no Harvard students in its program, Lt. Commander Edward J. Welsh, the Navy's regional ROTC recruiter, says...
Last week, for example, all Harvard male undergraduates received applications for the Marines' Platoon Leaders Program, a training course similar to ROTC...
ROTC's original purpose was to provide a contingent of officers in reserve in case of war, but in the f1960s, its emphasis shifted to training a group of career military men. The Navy ROTC program was the most popular one at Harvard in the sixties, with an annual enrollment of about 130. The Army program also had more than 100 students, and the Air Force detachment contained about 30 cadets...