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Suppress Votes

It is obvious that Mr. McClellan's
proposal to reject the Special
Committee on ROTC's recommendation
in the faculty meeting would
have passed if the ROTC instructors'
votes had been disallowed.
The Cavalier Daily, in fact, took
care to make this point obvious.
This raises the question, again, of
allowing the ROTC instructors
voting privileges.

Obviously, their votes should be
discredited, removed, and suppressed.
What easier way to pass
resolutions than by eliminating
some of the opposition? And while
we are eliminating ROTC, and
demonstrating against DOW and
IBM, why not burn General Foods
to the ground? After all, a soldier
cannot fight if he cannot eat! This
all makes an equal amount of sense.

But the faculty is not concerned
with such large issues. Their purpose
is simply to destroy ROTC at
the University, as a gut reaction
against our country's foreign policy
- to hell with the ROTC Committee
which was appointed to learn
something about the program. Of
course, the Committee was subversive
and reactionary.

After all, what normal professor
would allow unannounced critics to
visit their classrooms. There has to
be something wrong with such an
open door policy used in obtaining
information.

But now, since the "death to
ROTC" faction had the foresight to
adjourn the meeting before they
could be defeated, they will not
have an opportunity to mount a
better attack; beginning with Mr.
Israel's statement that ROTC would
not leave if degree credit was
withdrawn (despite what the ROTC
Committee learned) and also beginning
with Mr. McClellan's political
maneuvering, despite his assertion
the next day that "History and
political science are two different
things. I personally prefer history."