Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their vote of February fourth. As the Faculty has stated, there are other interested faculties whose views are entitled to considerations. Subject to such consideration we now accept the Faculty's clarification vote of April seventeenth and will continue these negotiations adopting the principle that ROTC should become an extracurricular activity and as such should enjoy no special facilities or privileges not ordinarily available to other extracurricular activities...
...Jared K. Ross-man '71, a member of the SDS strike steering committee, said at the meeting. "The Corporation would like us to believe that we have won, but we have not won. It's clear that the Corporation has every intention of keeping ROTC here--and extracurricular genocide is still genocide. Paine Hall scholarships have not been restored. Afro's demands are not yet met. The Wilson Report says nothing about low-cost housing; Harvard will continue to expand, continue to demolish homes...
...That the principle governing ROTC be that it operate as other ordinary extracurricular activities with no special privilege or facilities granted either by contract or informal arrangement...
...Corporation would want to protect the right of a minority of students to participate in ROTC as an extracurricular activity even if a majority of students and Faculty voted otherwise. What the Corporation would actually do in the unlikely event the Faculty passed such a vote was a point I specifically left open...
Only in the case of ROTC does the dispute edge beyond the realm of compromise. Military training is no more appropriately classed among extracurricular organizations than it was part of the Course Catalogue; if anything, indoctrination has less place in the new category being proposed for it, since undergraduate organizations are theoretically run by undergraduates...