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...December 12, 1968, about 100 anti-ROTC demonstrators refused to leave Paine Hall, the site of a special Faculty meeting. Fred L. Glimp '50, then dean of the College, warned the students to leave; when they refused, University police collected their bursar's cards, and Glimp promised disciplinary action. The Administrative Board voted to ask the students to withdraw, but the full Faculty--in an unprecedented move--refused to follow the Ad Board's lead. The Faculty placed 57 students on probation--replacing many of the students' scholarship with loans. The fate of the Paine Hall demonstrators became another symbol...
...begun in the early afternoon of April 9. About 300 demonstrators had taken the building to publicize a list of six demands approved at an SDS-sponsored meeting: abolition of Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and contracts; replacement of all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships; reinstatement of the scholarships of students disciplines in the wake of an earlier anti-ROTC demonstration at Paine Hall; a roll-back in rents on all Harvard-owned buildings to their January 1, 1968 level; no destruction of black workers' homes to allow for expansion of the Medical School; and no destruction...
...grounds of the house of then President Nathan M. Pusey '28 on Quincy St., the building that now headquarters the Harvard Corporation. Led by Jessie L. Gill--a tenant's organizer and SDS militant who had been active in tacking the community-oriented demands on to the list of anti-ROTC proposals--the group marched up to the house. Gill then pushed aside a guard and tacked the list of demands to the door...
DePriest has spent the last year lobbying to get the ban on MIT's ROTC program lifted. The anti-ROTC mood of the '60's was just a fad that's died away, he says. There has always been a military, and it is likely to remain, he adds...
...something important, like seat-races, I would make an exception," he once told a Kirkland House oarsman. In its more political manifestations, many students came to find Smithies's firmness objectionable. "People used to go around screaming 'CIA Agent!' and things at me," he recalls. For when anti-ROTC students occupied University Hall in April 1969 and opened the files of then dean of the Faculty Pranklin L. Ford, one of the letters they released to The Old Mole, the underground Cambridge newspaper that folded in 1970, was from Smithies. Dated December 7, 1967, it read: "The Central Intelligence Agency...