November 20: Even though the SDS anti-ROTC position had lost in the SFAC, a Faculty member said he would present the resolution at the Faculty's next meeting. Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, said he would argue that ROTC had no :moral or political legitimacy" at Harvard.
A milder resolution, aimed at removing ROTC's academic credit, remained in the deliberative machinery of the CEP. After CEP members heard students from the HUC and the HRPC present arguments for ending academic credit, Dean Glimp said he would conduct a special weeklong survey of ROTC's status at other colleges and report back to the CEP.
Admissions office figures showed that Harvard was more popular than ever, as freshman applications were up 42 per cent over last year's figures.
November 21: The nine Harvard students arrested in the welfare mothers protest were found guilty on charges of conspiracy and sentenced to three months in jail. Trial judge Elijah Adlow '15 offered the students a one-year suspended sentence if they promised to stay away from future demonstrations, but changed the sentence to three months non-suspended when the students appealed his decision.
Several more Harvard students were arrested at another MBTA fare demonstration. Late in the afternoon, the District Attorney released all the students charged with blocking a passage, while retaining some non Harvard students on charges of disrupting a meeting.
There was still another arrest closer to the Yard. Sophomore Jared K. Rossman was arrested when he sold cut-rate vogurt on the steps of Lehman Hall.
November 22: Black students who had been working with a special Faculty committee to lay plans for a new emphasis on Afro-American studies at Harvard reacted to printed reports that the committee's chairman--Henry Rosovsky--did not plan to recommend an autonomous Afro-American Studies department. In an official statement, Afro said that a new department would help attract gradu-