Interim ROTC to Get Official Appointments

Jerome S. Bruner, speaking for the ROTC negotiating committee, said that ROTC instructors probably would hold Corporation appointments in the Law or Business Faculties for the next two years.

Bruner made the statement Friday in an open discussion about the recommendations which the negotiating committee will present to the Faculty on June 9.

The negotiating committee issued a statement Friday asking that ROTC be terminated by June 30, 1971; that academic credit be denied in the interim; that ROTC instructors not hold appointments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and that students in the program be allowed to complete the program.

The negotiating committee will ask the Faculty to change three parts of their April 17 resolution about ROTC, according to members of the committee at the discussion.

Besides asking for appointments for ROTC instructors, they will ask that ROTC not be terminated as soon as legally possible, which would be by June 1970 for all three services. This measure is to allow juniors and seniors presently enroled in the ROTC programs to finish in the program. Sophomores, however, will not be able to finish the program at Harvard.

The third recommended change in the Faculty resolution will be that ROTC courses be described in a bulletin to be issued by the University. "We realize that official listing of courses by the University violates the principle of extracurricularity," one of the members of the committee said