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John D. Solomon ’85, who covered the controversy for The Crimson, said that while the Solomon Amendment was an issue on campus, it wasn’t the biggest area of contention with regard to the military at Harvard because it did not affect many students.
And that April, Boston-area colleges, including Harvard, tried to organize a Week of Resistance to oppose the Solomon Amendment. Harvard planned to host a debate on the law, but it was canceled because the law’s architect, Representative Gerald B. H. Solomon, did not attend.
Even when the activism gained more traction, it never involved large number of students because Harvard’s administration made overtures to those affected by the Solomon Amendment.
The move seemed to placate most students: a 1983 Crimson survey of 127 male undergraduates that asked whether universities should provide aid to students who do not register for the draft found that 65 percent thought Harvard’s proposal of offering loans and extra employment was an adequate...
As the reasons for the military’s tense relationship with Harvard and other universities changed in subsequent years, so too did the provisions of the Solomon Amendment.