Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February, the faculty voted to make ROTC extracurricular--which would probably have meant ROTC would leave Harvard altogether. It also agreed to set up a standing committee on Afro-American Studies, with a degree program to follow. The Harvard Corporation withdrew ROTC's academic credit, as the faculty asked, but it set about trying to negotiate a new extracurricular ROTC contract...
...February 4, with nine specially-invited students present (the first "open" Faculty meeting in Harvard's history), the Faculty voted, 207-125, to approve the SFAC proposal, with-drawing academic credit from all ROTC courses. The SFAC resolution made no mention of the possibility of according extracurricular status to ROTC, a move supported by the Corporation. And at that time Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, declined to speculate on ROTC's future at Harvard. But Col. Pell said that the Faculty's decision "would ultimately drive ROTC from the campus...
Then, on April 17, three days after the Soldiers Field meeting, the Faculty resolved that any Harvard ROTC unit should be no more than an ordinary extracurricular activity "with no special privileges or facilities granted either by contract or informal agreement." The Bruner Resolution, adopted by a 385-25 margin, provided that "existing contracts inconsistent with-this principle be terminated as soon as legally possible and that scholarship funds be provided where need is created by this decision...
...newsletter, currently staffed by four student volunteers, will be four pages long and in three sections. "The third section, in a way the most important one, will be an opinion-forum page on the issues of the arts at Harvard, such as the lack of support for extracurricular art programs here," Kayden said...
While the referral program is Evans's official extracurricular activity, his service to numerous black students at Harvard as unofficial advisor is probably the most important. As one undergraduate put it, "I cannot imagine Harvard without him." Evans is fully aware of the role he plays in Harvard's black community and speaks of the necessity of having more black faculty and administrators to share the load. "It's difficult; one person can do just so much. We lost nine black faculty and admistrators last year, and though some were replaced the numbers still moved in a negative direction...