Two Attempts To Save ROTC Get No Additional Consideration

The University ROTC Committee decided yesterday to take no further action on two separate attempts to keep the ROTC program at Harvard.

Richard R. Baxter, professor of Law and chairman of the committee, proposed on April 6 to present the results of an alumni poll of ROTC graduates before the Faculty. Malcolm Marshall '41 and Franklin Cunningham '41, the ROTC graduates who organized the poll among ROTC men in the classes from 1926 to 1965, said that only 38 men out of 1000 favored removing the program.

But Thomas C. Schelling. professor of Economics and member of the committee, objected to Baxter's proposal and said he did not want to present the ROTC alumni responses to the Faculty "unless we think they are grounds for reopening the ROTC question or something of the sort."

Baxter called yesterday's meeting to resolve this issue, at which the Committee also discussed a petition drive by John Scovell, a second-year Business School student and Army ROTC Battalion Commander: Scovell received 1620 signatures (20.4 per cent) favoring retention of ROTC out of 7929 students at the College, Law School, and Business School.

When Marshall found out his alumni poll would receive no further attention from the committee, he said, "In a year or two, when things simmer down a little, there night be a little more rationality about this."