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Get Your Guns

Faculty—ROTC
For Everyone

By William Hohenzollerein

In an meeting yesterday,
the Faculty of the College
voted to reestablish academic
credit for the Reserve Officer
Training Corps and decided to
make ROTC mandatory for all
students effective next year.

The FOC, which had only a
few months before decided to
remove academic credit from
ROTC, expressed surprise when
John Hebrew of the history
department moved to reestablish
academic credit for the program.

Mr. Hebrew, who had supported
the earlier motion, stated that he
had a change of mind. "I have
finally seen the light. ROTC
instructors offer perhaps the most
academic courses in the
University."

Colonel Robert C. Farht, head
of the Army ROTC unit, stated
while seconding the motion, that he
was very pleased with Mr. Hebrew's
change of heart. He added that "it's
about time the University stopped
catering to the Commie-Pinkos on
the Grounds and catered to us true
Americans."

After and extended debate of 15
seconds, the nine faculty members
present, all of whom were ROTC
instructors, approved the motion
by a slim seven to five vote.

Following the approval of the
motion, Captain Walter C.
Whiteman of the Naval ROTC
squadron moved to make the first
two years of ROTC mandatory for
all students in the College, effective
next September.

"It's about time the University
stopped catering to the
Commies-Pinkos on the Grounds,"
he stated "The University has to
realize that it has a duty to make all
of our youth true, patriotic
Commie-hating Americans."

"We have to show youth," he
added, "that they must pursue and
destroy the enemy no matter where
he is. It makes no difference if it's
in Vietnam, France, of the Supreme
Court."

In seconding the motion,
Colonel James P. Roberts, of the
Luftwaffe ROTC, stated that he
felt the motion was a good one.

Debate on the second issue was
a little more heated as the air
conditioning in Wilson Hall had
broken down earlier in the evening.
The motion passed unanimously.

David A. Shannon, Dean of the
Faculty, was asked by The Daily
Cavalier reporter, David A.
Shannitzo, Jr., why so few faculty
members had attended the meeting.

"I can't understand it,"
answered Mr. Shannitzo. "I told
them about it February 30," he
added as his army limousine drove
off.

In other action, the FOC
decided to take away academic
credit from the history department.