Lowell Forum Will Discuss ROTC

Lowell House undergraduates are holding an open forum with members of their Senior Common Room tonight to discuss the three issues that they say threaten to lead Harvard to a violent confrontation between students and Faculty:

* the legitimacy of ROTC

* punishment for the participants in last week's sit-in

* and students' right to attend Faculty meetings.

Broaden Awareness

Hayden Duggan '68-4, one of the meeting's organizers, said the forum's central purpose is to broaden student awareness of the ROTC issue. "No matter what any of the demonstration's critics claim, more students are talking about ROTC now than ever before," he added.

Great Hostility

"Another goal will be to lessen the great hostility that existed between students and Faculty both at the demonstration and right after it," Duggan said.

However, Duggan, who participated in the sit-in, emphasized that "no one viewpoint will be allowed to turn the meeting into a long diatribe and that, hopefully, as many different viewpoints as possible will be expressed."

"The meeting will be open to everyone but we hope that, rather than attending this meeting, students get together with senior Faculty members in all the other Houses as well," Duggan said.

Administration Attitudes

Another Lowell student who is working on the meeting, Robert F. Wasserstrom '70, said that he hopes the forum will counteract the attitudes of the administration. Wasserstrom said that "Dean Ford on his own initiative has chosen to keep students from discussing the matter by cancelling the Faculty meeting."

In other Houses various groups also are trying to discuss and formulate views on these important issues. A Dunster tutor, John Paul Russo '65, is drafting a statement suggesting to the Faculty that it would be far too severe a punishment to suspend those who sat-in last Thursday. He will present the statement to the rest of the Dunster Senior Common Room this week.