Word: indochina
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...PEOPLE tried to rationally explain Harvard, a new dean of the Faculty warned in 1963, it "would come down in a shower of blood." But the events of the next five years--especially the rising tides of the civil rights movement and American involvement in Indochina--induced increasing numbers of students to disregard Franklin L. Ford's warning and try to make sense out of Harvard anyway. To some of them, Harvard made considerable sense--but not so much for its service to education or truth. Harvard, they felt, was training students to accept and eventually help run a system...
...such discontented students, the unexpectedness and brutality of the Bust appeared to confirm radical contentions: students really were powerless. Real power remained in the hands of a corporate state which would use whatever force it needed to quell student demonstrations just as it used whatever force it needed in Indochina. And the supposedly liberal university's respect for tolerance and orderly procedure was just a facade to be cast aside when its administrators felt threatened. "Nobody believed that it would happen," Epstein said of the Bust. "It was what mobolized the students more than anything, the knowledge that they really...
...Strike was built around a set of specific demands. Students wanted the Reserve Officers Training Corps off campus--they maintained that having ROTC at Harvard meant aiding an American Army engaged in unconscionable repression in Indochina. ROTC served as a symbol of University service to the American government--a far cry from the liberal ideal of free, politically neutral inquiry to which Harvard administrators gave lip-service. Students wanted a voice in running the University. They wanted to elect part of the Harvard Corporation, and help run the departments in which they studied, starting with Afro-American Studies, the newest...
...Indochina war just kept on getting bigger, and to increasing numbers of students it seemed to provide blatant, explosive proof that there might be some truth to analyses like Barrington Moore's or Mario Savio's--that Savio's "managerial tyranny" with little interest in truth or anything else worth respecting was trying to manage their lives, and generally succeeding. SDS, continuing its block-by-block organizing around local issues in Roxbury and North Harvard but increasingly returning to its predecessor Tocsin's roots in antiwar organizing, doubled its 100 members in the fall...
...November to join 25,000 antiwar marchers in listening to such speakers as Coretta Scott King, 81-year old Norman Thomas and 30-year old Carl Oglesby president of SDS. Some of the students defied the march's organizers and carried signs calling for immediate American withdrawl from Indochina. The next fall, a thousand people at registration signed SDS's interest cards...