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This is a move that hasn't been seen on campus for at least a decade, says former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Students targeted the University's highest decision-making body in the anti-Vietnam campaign of 1969, and again in an extended campaign against investment in...
But while PSLM has only recently realized the quiet power of the Corporation, Epps says this strategy is not without precedent-it is a natural step in the progression of an escalating campaign.
Epps points to the anti-Vietnam "crisis" in 1969, where students, claiming that Harvard was complicit in the war, protested the presence of ROTC on campus.
While there are significant differences between the campaigns of 30 years ago and today's living wage campaign, Epps draws certain parallels.
"Those were the days of a counter-culture movement against authority," Epps says. "We don't have that today."