Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, October 7, 1969 Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, October 7, 1 969 "Worth Celebrating"--Detroit News "Mounts to Marvelous Climax" -Michigan Daily f UNION-LEAGUE present -'7PROFESIO'NAL THEATER P .RGRAM Special Perforc 3CIC "".1v3C9 Faculitl Following is the final report of the Senate Assembly's Aca- demic Affairs Committee on POTC. Space limitations forced major abridgements of the re- port. Deletions are marked by ellipscs.-Eds.) The Committee was faced ti t h considerable indif- ference towards its considerations of ROTC at Michigan, on the one hand: and on the other with urg- igfrom individuals who do feel a concern about ROTC and the military, that we expand our in- !estigation, judging the problem in terms of national goals and confronting the moral question in our deliberations and in this Re- port A passionate denunciation of tie role of the military in Amer- ican society can be balanced by an equally passionate argument, " the abandonment of our mil- itary forces in today's world is' morally unrealistic. The members of the Committee hav strong feelings about the r ROTC. war, about militarism, about t h e University's responsibility be- fore the state and the country. But we are not persuaded that either to confirm 'or to reject the ROTC programs on this basis is to accomplish anything. It is argued on the other hand that the University has an over- riding obligation to serve the needs of society, military and otherwise, and that to consider the abolition of the ROTC pro- grams represents an irrespon- sible attack on a vital institution or even a want of patriotism The Committee denies that the patriotism of the University com- munity can be superficially de- fined in terms of its acceptance or rejection of the ROTC units ... The Committee does believe that the unaltered retention of ROTC can be justified only on = these public rather than on aca- demic grounds, for the academic return to the University of the ROTC programs is slight. The Committee therefore has Meet APA after with Company of. AA report come to the conclusion that its obligations are: -to evaluate the ROTC pro- grais within the University as an institution, apart from the cur- rent political climate, and -to determine whether the University can best serve the gen- eral good by abolition of the programs or by reform which would make them consonant with the purposes and standards of the University. Our evaluations takes into ac- count the arguments of those who favor reform, who point out that in accepting and supporting the ROTC programs the University has undertaken a public service. The armed forces draw as many as 80 per cent of their junior officers from the nation's ROTC units --- We also recognize the argu- ments of those who favor sevey- ance on academic grounds, con- tending that the University and ROTC need not have any formal relation with each other. They maintain that, if the Department of Defense relies so heavily on the colleges and universities to produce line officers, not just reserve officers, it is precisely be- cause the military has not faced the problem of an alternative ex- cept in national crisis. The protest that there is no alternative to ROTC is merely a reflection of the fact that the De- partment of Defense has never tried to create one . . . The University should b? made aware of the limits of action if we turn our back and leave t h e training of officers to others. The ROTC programs can be removed from the campus by abrogation of the contracts on one year's notice. We will have washed our hands of them, which some will welcome, but ROTC as an institution will continue elsewhere. The Committee therefore favors the alternative of reformed ROTC programs, which might serve as Mod ,1 for other institutions. It i well attested that ROTC reform . has come about in the past pre- cisely because of pressure upon the units from their host institu- tions, not from the Pentagon. We have now the opportunity to bring somie rforming pressure to bear, because neither the sere- ice academies nor the OCS could easily and quickly bridge the gap if the ROTC programs through- out the count ry wvere . to close. Our recommendations therefore aim at modification of our rela- tionship with ROTC rather than abolition, to the end of recogniz- ing formally the academic weak- ness of ROTC training as it is now constituted, and of accomp- lishing a genuine renovation of the programs. We recommend narrowing the contractural obligations of the University. specifically because the ROTC programs do not appear to us to be academically justif- able: at the same time encourag- ing, through recommendation D below, a reform of the programs that they might become an edu- cational asset to the University and to the citizens exposed to them... We have found that both the law and contracts have been var- iously inte rpreted, and in a n y case our concern is to establish what the future of ROTC should be at the University, not what an outside agent wishes it to be. We offer two alternative recom- mendations, the first providing for renegotiation of the ROTC con- tracts on the basis of several con- ditions, the second calling for withdrawal from the contracts if these conditions are not met. I. We recommend that the Re- gents take immediate steps to re- negotiate the three ROTC con- tracts with the Department of De- fense, to the end that each of the following conditions be met as son as possible. A. By contractural agreement the University grants depmtretnal S ERE E status to the ROTC programs. These are by general agreement recruiting and training programs for the military, not proper de- partmental units. They claim to develop stud.nt character in cer- tain ways. but they are not design- ed to contribute to scholarly re- search or the creation of know- ledge. We therefore recommend that the militaryv departments of the University be replaced by "pro- grans" without departmental status. B. The staff of the ROTC pro- gramns have tended to be men as- signed to serve three years as mil- itarv instructors without either prior or subsequent 'teachings ex- perience. They are shuttled in and out of the teaching world as well as of the University. We therefore recommend t h a t staff members of the ROTC pro- grams be recognized by their mil- itary titles. academic titles being granted only to those holding reg- ular oppintments in a school or college. C. By contractual agreement the University must now provide space for the military programs, as well as t he direct financial support which every department receives - secretarial services, office ex- penses, and building maintenance. Financial support by the Univer- sity for these programs amounts to a hiddten contribution to the DIepartment of Defense. Nyhich al- ready controls an enormous bud- get for its owin purPoses, We therefore recommend t h a t the Department of Defense main- tain its own services, or reimburse the University for services at full cost. Space for the programs should not be provided e x c e p t when the needs of the academic units of the Universit-y have been satisfied, and then at the rental obtaining locally for comparable commercial property. 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