Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard to continue producing officers for the Viet Nam war or for use against black rebellions at home for political reasons." Pusey flatly denied that the university planned to destroy the housing. He also noted that Harvard had recently taken account of student objections by stripping ROTC of course credit, but was prevented from abolishing it entirely by "contractual obligations" to the Government. He began his statement by challenging the rebels' sincerity: "Can anyone believe the Harvard S.D.S. demands are made seriously?" He ended it on the same note: "How can one respond to allegations which have no basis...
...never seriously expected that the campus really would explode in the way it did. The rights of dissent and discussion are sacred at Harvard, and in the past six months, the faculty has been alert to accommodate student requests that it recognized as legitimate. In addition to abolishing course credit for ROTC, the university readily agreed to establish a program of Afro-American studies when Negro students insisted on it. It is, moreover, in keeping with the Harvard way that basic decisions are not, as at less democratic universities, made only by a small inner circle of deans. Proposals...
...Corporation regarded the Faculty vote on academic credit and Faculty status as controlling...
...unfortunate that police should club Harvard students, but no more or less so than that they should club anyone else. Suppose that some ROTC cadets had seized the hall to protest withdrawal of credit from ROTC courses. Suppose that they had similarly ejected Deans and rifled files, and had been removed by a similar police operation. Would there be the same anti-administration feeling as now exists...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted that academic credit should not be given to ROTC courses and that ROTC officers should not be considered regular members of the Faculty. A committee appointed by the Corporation is working not to thwart this Faculty vote but to carry it out. The SDS demand that Harvard violate its contractual obligations bears not relation to the vote of the Faculty...