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[Identification of item], Committee on ROTC Records, University Archives, Duke University.
The University Committee on ROTC Records were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1972 (A72-67), 1973 (A73-159), and 1977.
Processed by Valerie Gillispie
Completed July 21, 2003
Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, July 22, 2003
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The University Committee on ROTC was formed in 1970 at the request of Duke President Terry Sanford. The Committee was established to review the status of the ROTC program at Duke, and to determine whether the program should be abolished, modified, or maintained. Some students and others had complained that ROTC did not fit into the curriculum at Duke, that its coursework did not allow students to think critically, and that Duke symbollically supported the war in Vietnam through its sponsorship of ROTC.
The members of the committee were Aubrey W. Naylor, Thomas G. Wilson, David Pace, Chip Rawlings, and A. Kenneth Pye. In May of 1971, the committee recommended that the ROTC program be continued, although modified, and offered a number of recommendations. ROTC is currently still in operation at Duke University.
Collection includes correspondence, minutes, testimony, reports, printed materials, reports from other institutions, student course evaluations and questionnaires, notes, and other materials related to the Committee's investigations during 1970-1971. One of the Committee's major endeavors was a survey of students who were enrolled or had previously been enrolled in ROTC courses. These student evaluations make up approximately half of the collection.
The materials are organized by accession number.
These and related materials may be accessed under the following subject headings in the Duke University Libraries online catalog.
Some of the materials included in this series are course evaluation forms and testimonies. Although most of the documents do not contain personally identifiable information, some student names are included. Researchers who use this collection must agree to protect the anonymity of these students by completing a "Request to Conduct Research in Personally-Identifiable Student Records" form. Contact the University Archives for further information and instructions.