Word: draft
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...draft that the University presented last night, Harvard pledged to provide physical improvements of the neighborhood, free math and science tutoring, and conduct a survey to guide its future educational offerings for Allston residents...
Harvard’s director for community relations in Boston Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 said that the draft committed the University to continuing talks with the neighborhood...
Today, reminiscence of the 1960s conjures images of a more ardent and idealistic era, during which students set down their pens and took up arms against the Vietnam War, the draft that accompanied it, and a host of other injustices. All of this simmering outrage boiled over at Harvard in 1969, when undergraduates seized University Hall in protest of the College’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. For some, accompanying nostalgia for that era is a tangible disappointment in today’s students who, it may seem, have no interest in enduring truncheons...
...claim that political activism is gone from Harvard at all remains open to debate. While it may have been decades since riot squads passed under Boylston Gate, this fact connotes the transformation—not degradation—of undergraduates’ public spirit. The looming threat of the draft played an invaluable role as a catalyst for activism in the Vietnam era; the absence of conscription today makes political activism an entirely different enterprise. Moreover, the omnipresence of news and technology has lessened the necessity for the kind of public demonstration the people behind this letter seem to value...
...produced,” voted fiscal conservative Ronald Reagan into the presidency—twice—in the 1980s. The Peace Corps and groups like it were the second-most popular choice of employment after college for the Class of 1966, when these occupations also qualified for draft deferments from the war, but members of that class and others of the 1960s are now the CEOs beginning to step down from their positions at the heads of those once-terrifying corporations. Blumenthal charged “the ‘bigness’ of modern organizations”, both...