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Others say they gained experience that could not be obtained in the lecture hall...
Thirty years ago today, members of Students for a Democratic Society stormed University Hall and evicted administrators. Their protest of the United States' involvement in Vietnam was eventually squashed by local police, but they did succeed in winning at least one victory--the eviction of the Reserve Officers' Training Program (ROTC) from the Harvard campus...
Though it was not one of the six demands they originally presented to the administration, the students who took over University Hall were also fighting for a department of Afro-American Studies, a demand the University agreed to later that year. Today, the department is one of the best in the country. The fight begun in 1969 isn't quite over yet, though: students have been asking for an ethnic studies program for years, to no avail...
...most important institutional change brought on by takeover was a change in the administration's attitude. The University's response to the 1969 takeover put into sharp relief its disdain for students: Nathan M.Pusey '28, president of Harvard at the time, was willing to send local police into University Hall to drive his own students from the building...
...events at Harvard in the spring of 1969 have an undeniable cultural significance. In Harvard parlance, the University Hall takeover is practially synonymous with the '60s, with all that decade's social and political connotations. But on this anniversary we should also remember the real and lasting changes to the University the protestors...