The University of Oregon Reserve Officers Training Corps may be in danger of losing academic credit through the UO if a University Senate notice of motion is passed.

The notice, sponsored by biology professor emeritus Frank Stahl, proposes that the UO stop granting academic credit to military science classes and that ROTC credit not be given to any course offered by any other department. The motion would not prevent ROTC students from taking UO classes, but it would essentially make ROTC an extracurricular activity.

The decision would impact 120 ROTC students, but until next week the ROTC will not have a prediction of the motion’s impact to the program, according to ROTC Office Specialist Cindy Youngman.

ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz opposed the motion and said that students need to have a voice in the decision, as it will directly impact them.

“Students have fought long and hard to earn the right for a seat at the table of decision-making here at the University of Oregon,” Dotters-Katz wrote in an email to Stahl. “While that role is advisory in nature, the scope of our involvement grows when the issue being discussed has a direct impact on students.”

For this reason, the notice of motion has been temporarily withdrawn until student membership on the senate is finalized, according to University Senate President Margie Paris.

“As far as I know, it will not appear on our next agenda,” Paris said.