New York, May 16—The very first thing the president of the typical university does, upon announcing that henceforward ROTC students will receive no academic credits, is to assure his audience that the decision of the faculty was reached without any thought to the political situation, absolutely none at all.
That is of course sucker-bait, and the presidents know it, but they have become so much accustomed to dissimulation, which they practice upon the alumni as if they had Ph.D.s in the subject, that they can manage to keep straight faces while saying such crooked things. Sure, anti-Vietnam sentiment had nothing to do with deciding to drop ROTC credits, and the New Hampshire primary had nothing to do with Lyndon Johnson’s retirement. Sure, ROTC doesn’t warrant academic respectability, but Eldridge Cleaver does. . . .
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