Word: draft
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...University Hall by Vietnam War protesters, the school ended official recognition of campus ROTC activities, an affront not only to our nations defense, but to the many students whod voluntarily signed up to serve our country. Apparently these protesters wanted even more young people to be subject to the draft, because that was the likely result...
...Harvard College and Harvard Business School alumnus, who graduated into the teeth of the Vietnam War in 1968 when the draft was in effect, and who was forced to lie at that time about my sexual orientation in order to enlist in the U.S. Navy, I resent to this day that I was forced to be dishonest in order to serve our country. Please be vocal in working to allow all citizens to serve in the military without compromising personal integrity...
...committee, one of six in the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, met in full last Friday for the first time this academic year to discuss a new draft report on general education circulated among the committee members last week. Several members of the committee, christened the “Gang of Five,” met throughout the summer to compose the new report, laying the intellectual and practical foundations for undergraduate education at Harvard...
...draft report recommends replacing the current Core Curriculum’s 11 fields of study with three broad disciplines—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology—and requiring students to take three courses in each of the two areas most different from their concentration. The report also outlines year-long “portal” courses that students could take to fulfill the requirement for one of the three areas, according to a copy viewed by The Crimson last month...
While the “Gang of Five” met in person only a few times over the summer, e-mails were circulated regularly and several authors contributed to the draft report, which is significantly longer and more thorough than the much-maligned report released to the Faculty Council last March...