Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's negotiating committee and the Army failed to reach an agreement which would allow for the continuation of the program. This is primarily the result of a Faculty resolution limiting ROTC to the status of an extra-curricular organization, removing academic credit, and removing appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from military professors...
...finally passed a resolution asking Harvard to remove academic credit from ROTC courses. The victorious resolution, which had been tabled at a meeting three days earlier, also recommended that ROTC instructors lose their Corporation appointments and that ROTC's privileges be trimmed back to the level of "other extra-curricular activities...
April 17: The Faculty passed a resolution limiting ROTC's privileges to the same level as those of any other extra-curricular organization. The resolution, proposed by Jerome S. Burner, said that ROTC should have "no special privileges or facilities granted either by contract or informal agreement...
...Corporation said yesterday that it is "fully committed to carrying out in both letter and spirit" the Faculty's resolution to deny ROTC any special extra-curricular privileges...
Those of us who are concerned, not with the curricular status of ROTC, but with its use as an agent of oppression in Vietnam and elsewhere, wish to know the simple fact: "Will the United States Army be using the campus to train army officers...