The Yale College faculty last week declared war on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. It voted to take academic credit away from ROTC courses and to strip officers commanding the units of their professorial rank. Swift approval by the Yale Corporation seemed all but certain.
Yale thus joins other colleges that have made ROTC an entirely extracurricular affair. Although Yale has given academic credit for ROTC for more than 50 years, Arthur W. Galston, professor of biology and chairman of the faculty course of study committee, insisted that the decision was based...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
