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Academic council reaffirms position on voluntary ROTC Citing "the marked increase in student concern" over compulsory ROTC, the academic council early this week confirmed its stand of last year that military science should be made voluntary for male students. Acting on behalf of the council, chairman Michael Galligan re-stated the conclusions of an "extensive survey of student opinion" taken last year and submitted to the president's committee for core curriculum reform chaired by Paul Harney, S.J., academic vice-president. At that time, the council told the committee that the survey revealed that it y/as "the almost unanimous opinion of the students that male undergraduates no longer be required to participate in the Reserve Officer Training Program." The council, after observing the increased interest in ROTC brought about by a petition to make the program voluntary which circulated for the past two weeks, decided to reiterate its position. "The council believes that only those courses should be required of all candidates for graduation . . . that directly advance the academic and intellectual growth and development of the student . . . Insofar as the training re ceived in ROTC has as its end the learning or acquirement of particular skills related to military service, we do not think it directly supports the primordial goal of the university." Quoting John Henry Newman, the council believes that goal is "the true and adequate end of intellectual training, thought or reason exercised upon knowledge." Believing that "the question of military service is a pressing problem for male undergraduates," the council recommends that ROTC be retained on a voluntary basis, and that "the undergraduate (Continued on page 2) Short semester Administrators register satisfaction with calendar SAn f KZAllL foglmorzn Vol. 62, No. 9 November 17, 1967 SK 1-3118, SK 1-3119 Push tor voluntary ROTC leaves administrators cold The furor over compulsory ROTC has produced no appreciable effect upon the upper echeleons of the university administration. "It is up to the university to decide whether or not the need for leadership filled by the ROTC program is enough to make the program a requirement," said Colonel Vernon Gilbert, head of the military science department. The administration apparently feels no need to hurry its decision on compulsory ROTC. "The recommendation of the first Core Curriculum Committee concerning voluntary ROTC was never accepted by the faculty," said Paul Harney, S.J., academic vice-president. Instead, a second committee was formed to make recommendations to Charles Dullea, university president, drawing its material from the CCC report and faculty reaction to it. This committee, chaired by F-alther Harney and including Edward Stackpoole, chairman of the original CCC and assistant professor of English; Edmund Smyth, S.J., former dean of arts and sciences and presently associate professor of history; Albert Smith, S.J., assistant professor of philosophy; and George Lerski, associate professor of political science, is now in the process of evaluating the core curriculum. "We are doing this in two phases," stated Father Harney. "The first phase, that of deciding a philosophy of the core curriculum, was just recently completed." This was done after some 12 or 13 meetings held throughout the spring semester of 1967. The report is presently being compiled by Father Smyth. "The second phase," said Father Harney, "is to evaluate the core curriculum according to this philosophy." It is this second process that concerns the military science program. "I do not feel that attacking the core curriculum piecemeal is the proper approach," said Father Harney. Therefore, the university's decision on compulsory ROTC (Continued on page 2) By Mike Doogan Foghorn News Editor Despite the hue and cry which has appeared in letters to the Foghorn, the university administration has received no formal complaints about the revised academic calendar. "I haven't heard any complaints about the new system," said Paul Harney, S.J., academic vice-president. "The only complaints I've seen I've read in the Foghorn." The main complaint about the new calendar is that it does away with dead days. This, according to letters received, is detrimental to all students in hot pursuit of the almighty grade. "The new calendar does away with dead days," said Robert Sundarland, S.J., dean of men and one of the originators of the new calendar. "Td some students this is bad, to others good." However, according to Father Sunderland, there are fewer freshmen in academic trouble after their first midterms than there were in previous years, and the feeling among the Phelan Hall staff is that there is more study and more serious attitudes than in the past. The new calendar does more than just eliminate dead days. It cuts the number of vacation days in the fall semester from four to two and lengthens the Easter vacation from two class days to eight class days. The main feature of the new calendar is the longer break between semesters. This year, the break is 27 class days, while last year the two breaks totaled 18 class days. The new system eliminates the four class days and the finals which fell between the Christmas vacation and the semester break last year. "This was the period labeled as the 'lame duck' period by teachers and students," said Father Sunderland. "The new calendar has 65 class days (as opposed to 68 class days in the fall semester of last year), but they are all prior to finals and Christmas vacation, offering a continuity to both students and teachers." The criticism of the new system brought universal reaction from administration nabobs. As expressed by Richard Vaughan, S.J., dean of arts and sciences: "It's really (Continued on page 4) memonam Beckwith B. Clark, lee turer in mathematics, died in his sleep Sunday morning, November 12. Funeral J services were held Novem- • ber 15 at the Laswell Mor-; tuary in Daly City. Clark received his B.A. in j math from USF in 1964 and ; had been teaching at the university since that time. He took a degree in bacteriology from Stanford University in 1932. He is survived by his wife and his two daughters, his mother, brother, and sister. So much for Beethoven 0hlysesh0pp/n6\ oays til the next annual PtAtyOSMASHtl For those of you who may have missed it (shed a tear), we are providing a replica of the mammoth piano smash. This event, the Peers' and Spirits' contribution to the USF cultural scene, took place in Harney plaza and added loads of bad taste to an otherwise mediocre pep rally. It is comforting to know that whenever things are going badly there are groups willing to leap into the breach with infantile antics and make them worse.
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Publication Date | 1967-11-17 |
Volume | 62 |
Issue | 9 |
Newpaper Title | San Francisco Foghorn |
Issue Title | San Francisco Foghorn Volume 62 Issue 9 |
Number of pages | 12 |
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Notable content | ROTC. Apartheid. |
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Transcript | Academic council reaffirms position on voluntary ROTC Citing "the marked increase in student concern" over compulsory ROTC, the academic council early this week confirmed its stand of last year that military science should be made voluntary for male students. Acting on behalf of the council, chairman Michael Galligan re-stated the conclusions of an "extensive survey of student opinion" taken last year and submitted to the president's committee for core curriculum reform chaired by Paul Harney, S.J., academic vice-president. At that time, the council told the committee that the survey revealed that it y/as "the almost unanimous opinion of the students that male undergraduates no longer be required to participate in the Reserve Officer Training Program." The council, after observing the increased interest in ROTC brought about by a petition to make the program voluntary which circulated for the past two weeks, decided to reiterate its position. "The council believes that only those courses should be required of all candidates for graduation . . . that directly advance the academic and intellectual growth and development of the student . . . Insofar as the training re ceived in ROTC has as its end the learning or acquirement of particular skills related to military service, we do not think it directly supports the primordial goal of the university." Quoting John Henry Newman, the council believes that goal is "the true and adequate end of intellectual training, thought or reason exercised upon knowledge." Believing that "the question of military service is a pressing problem for male undergraduates," the council recommends that ROTC be retained on a voluntary basis, and that "the undergraduate (Continued on page 2) Short semester Administrators register satisfaction with calendar SAn f KZAllL foglmorzn Vol. 62, No. 9 November 17, 1967 SK 1-3118, SK 1-3119 Push tor voluntary ROTC leaves administrators cold The furor over compulsory ROTC has produced no appreciable effect upon the upper echeleons of the university administration. "It is up to the university to decide whether or not the need for leadership filled by the ROTC program is enough to make the program a requirement," said Colonel Vernon Gilbert, head of the military science department. The administration apparently feels no need to hurry its decision on compulsory ROTC. "The recommendation of the first Core Curriculum Committee concerning voluntary ROTC was never accepted by the faculty," said Paul Harney, S.J., academic vice-president. Instead, a second committee was formed to make recommendations to Charles Dullea, university president, drawing its material from the CCC report and faculty reaction to it. This committee, chaired by F-alther Harney and including Edward Stackpoole, chairman of the original CCC and assistant professor of English; Edmund Smyth, S.J., former dean of arts and sciences and presently associate professor of history; Albert Smith, S.J., assistant professor of philosophy; and George Lerski, associate professor of political science, is now in the process of evaluating the core curriculum. "We are doing this in two phases," stated Father Harney. "The first phase, that of deciding a philosophy of the core curriculum, was just recently completed." This was done after some 12 or 13 meetings held throughout the spring semester of 1967. The report is presently being compiled by Father Smyth. "The second phase," said Father Harney, "is to evaluate the core curriculum according to this philosophy." It is this second process that concerns the military science program. "I do not feel that attacking the core curriculum piecemeal is the proper approach," said Father Harney. Therefore, the university's decision on compulsory ROTC (Continued on page 2) By Mike Doogan Foghorn News Editor Despite the hue and cry which has appeared in letters to the Foghorn, the university administration has received no formal complaints about the revised academic calendar. "I haven't heard any complaints about the new system," said Paul Harney, S.J., academic vice-president. "The only complaints I've seen I've read in the Foghorn." The main complaint about the new calendar is that it does away with dead days. This, according to letters received, is detrimental to all students in hot pursuit of the almighty grade. "The new calendar does away with dead days," said Robert Sundarland, S.J., dean of men and one of the originators of the new calendar. "Td some students this is bad, to others good." However, according to Father Sunderland, there are fewer freshmen in academic trouble after their first midterms than there were in previous years, and the feeling among the Phelan Hall staff is that there is more study and more serious attitudes than in the past. The new calendar does more than just eliminate dead days. It cuts the number of vacation days in the fall semester from four to two and lengthens the Easter vacation from two class days to eight class days. The main feature of the new calendar is the longer break between semesters. This year, the break is 27 class days, while last year the two breaks totaled 18 class days. The new system eliminates the four class days and the finals which fell between the Christmas vacation and the semester break last year. "This was the period labeled as the 'lame duck' period by teachers and students," said Father Sunderland. "The new calendar has 65 class days (as opposed to 68 class days in the fall semester of last year), but they are all prior to finals and Christmas vacation, offering a continuity to both students and teachers." The criticism of the new system brought universal reaction from administration nabobs. As expressed by Richard Vaughan, S.J., dean of arts and sciences: "It's really (Continued on page 4) memonam Beckwith B. Clark, lee turer in mathematics, died in his sleep Sunday morning, November 12. Funeral J services were held Novem- • ber 15 at the Laswell Mor-; tuary in Daly City. Clark received his B.A. in j math from USF in 1964 and ; had been teaching at the university since that time. He took a degree in bacteriology from Stanford University in 1932. He is survived by his wife and his two daughters, his mother, brother, and sister. So much for Beethoven 0hlysesh0pp/n6\ oays til the next annual PtAtyOSMASHtl For those of you who may have missed it (shed a tear), we are providing a replica of the mammoth piano smash. This event, the Peers' and Spirits' contribution to the USF cultural scene, took place in Harney plaza and added loads of bad taste to an otherwise mediocre pep rally. It is comforting to know that whenever things are going badly there are groups willing to leap into the breach with infantile antics and make them worse. |
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