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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Educational Policy showed Wednesday that the Faculty is not insensitive to the conflict between ROTC's privileged place on campus and Harvard's academic standards. By chopping one-and-a-half credit courses out of the NROTC program the CEP rightly recognized that uniform regulations and nuances of military leadership have no place in the College curriculum...
...principal point of the article on ROTC is that because the Armed Forces now require highly trained officers and are consequently endeavoring to recruit only career officers on the campus, ROTC no longer fulfills its traditional functions of "civilianizing" the military and producing a large group of reserve officers. I believe the author is not acquainted with the realities of the officer corps in the services...
...were also hired, of course, to teach. But at the inception of the program, when the Harvard people were in Cambridge and the Shaw people were in Raleigh, the tutors were regarded only in their objective function. Only when we arrived on campus did we become racial threats. Only then came the nagging realization that there was something in it for us. Why had we wanted to come? Shaw people could conceive of only two reasons: either we were brought by neurotic missionary impulses or, worse, we came out of cold sociological curiosity...
...climate at Shaw is repressive. The campus policeman, known by students as "Deputy Dawg," is a powerful symbol. Students accuse him of "hunting for trouble." citing his nightly rout of couples from a popular tunnel that runs under a super-highway. A rigidly enforced curfew requires upperclassmen girls to be in the dorm by ten, and they must sign out whenever they leave the campus. A glance at the sign-out book on an ordinary day exposes trips to the laundromat, to the post-office, or to Woolworth...
...administration was offended by the tutors in either role; we did nothing for them but raise the ghost of the Riesman article. We became inescapable reminders that not only was Shaw in most respects no exception among Negro colleges, but nobody on campus--not a dean...