While saying that the Faculty would probably discuss bringing ROTC back, professors and administrators have said that would not expect the Faculty to agree to the restoration of an on-campus ROTC program.
"Clearly there is very little likelihood that the faculty would vote to recommend reinstatement of ROTC," said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 in an interview Monday.
But even if the Faculty were to ask for ROTC's return without academic credit, as the council has suggested, the military would probably not return without special arrangements.
Because it is the military's normal policy to start ROTC programs only on campuses where academic credit is given and where military instructors are granted faculty tenure, even Faculty approval of the council's resolution would likely do little to bring ROTC back.
Whether ROTC's return is realistic or not, the council will debate the issue again tomorrow night when it will offer its members a menu of resolutions and changes to suit any political taste: from the sweeping to the moderately conciliatory.
The Services Committee has forwarded four resolutions for debate Sunday. One would repeal the original resolution, another would make ROTC's return contingent upon the end to its discriminatory policies, a third would deny faculty positions to any military instructors, and the last would mandate that any new campus organizations comply with Harvard's anti-discriminatory policies.
A fifth resolution, introduced by Hornstein and Dana M. Bush '90, would call for an end to anti-gay rules in the military, but would not make ROTC's return contingent upon those changes.
After last Sunday's often unruly session, council leaders are taking extra precautions to insure that speakers' rights are protected at tomorrow night's meeting. And the council has announced that its session will be moved from its regular location in Sever Hall to a larger room in Emerson, in anticipation of what may prove to be the largest crowd and the most heated debate in council history.