Fate of military course credit set
ROTC credit to be dropped in 1971
By GALEN BLAND
Kansan Staff Writer
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, by a 193 to 165 mail ballot vote, chose to deny credit, starting September, 1971, to ROTC courses that are not integrated into the regular academic courses of the University.
The results of the vote were announced Tuesday in a College faculty meeting in the Kansas Union Woodruff Auditorium by Eugene Fox, associate dean of the College.
A similar question was defeated by the faculty last year, but this year the question was supplemented by a plan to integrate present ROTC courses into the regular academic program.
Herman Lujan, chairman of the university Senate temporary committee on ROTC, had requested at the last College faculty meeting that the proposal be defeated, but Wednesday he saw the vote as an approval of the plan formulated by his committee.
Lujan said the vote posed no threat to the major points of the plan of integration. Those major points are the substitution of academic courses for ROTC courses wherever possible, attaching a military science section to each substituted course and the use of team-teaching where substitution is not possible. The ROTC companion courses would be overseen by a special ROTC education policies committee.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. did not believe the vote or the proposed plan of integration would damage the ROTC program.
Chalmers said the vote would probably not cause the number of ROTC students to drop. He
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compared the situation with that which developed when compulsory ROTC programs were made voluntary.
He said he found the situation to be in accord with directives by the legislature and statements by the Board of Regents. He had taken steps at Friday's board meeting, he said, to head off a panic at the vote results because the University could live with either outcome of the college vote.
allow from five to 16 hours of credit for ROTC courses.
Some of the military science men are not as convinced as was Chalmers.
Air Force Col. Rayburn Lancaster and Navy Capt. Joseph Marzluff, leaders of the ROTC programs, said they expected the vote would be reflected in enrollment. If their programs are threatened as an outcome of this vote, both expect the regents to get involved to prevent the College faculty from denying the programs to all KU students.
Col. Philip Riedel, head of the Army program, was optimistic about the possibilities of achieving integration and said time would reveal the vote's impact on enrollment.
The College presently permits up to 25 hours of credit from another school or department to be applied toward a bachelor's degree. ROTC credit is included under this arrangement. The eight other undergraduate schools
The resolution passed by the College faculty was: "As of September, 1971, those military science courses which have not been successfully integrated into the departmental offerings of nonmilitary science departments shall not apply toward graduation requirements in the college except for the student currently enrolled in ROTC courses at the University of Kansas."