Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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" 'Smash ROTC. No expansion! Fight to win!! came the chant from the WSAers.'
The several hundred students who occupied the building to protest the University's involvement with the Vietnam War effort and its expansion in Cambridge used the Faculty room as their forum during their day-and-a-half-long stay.
The angry debates among students about Black studies, the ROTC--the Reserve Officer Training Corps--and Harvard's expansion into Cambridge were mirrored by the conflicts in the faculty over those issues.
But that situation changed in April 1969, when several hundred students, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), took over the University's main administrative building, calling for an end to campus Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and Harvard's expansion into the community.
Graham, who had emerged as a leader in the Black community in the years preceding the strike, had spent her time fighting many of the same issues the students were protesting--the Vietnam war, Harvard's rapid expansion into the predominantly, Black Riverside neighborhood and the city's lack of...