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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard New College will open its doors to students today. The College is offering 17 course ranging from Radicalism in America: Past and present to the Social Relevance of Science...
...fact that the door to the room containing the financial records was broken down by the intruders within hours of the occupation is an indication that time was a real factor to consider. Furthermore, personal correspondence between members of the faculty and past and present deans was lifted from the files in my office and systematic reproduction of such documents had already begun. Excerpts from some of these files have today appeared in the current issue of Old Mole, Boston's self-styled "radical weekly...
...this has been a week of sickening events and discouraging discoveries about how some minds work. If the Harvard community, students and faculty alike, do not recognize that what is not at stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn--if that community sees in the present situation only an opportunity to attack the Governing Boards, the President, or some other part of the institution--there will be little point in pretending much longer that this is a real university. The buildings will remain but the soul will be gone...
...Harvard community is divided over the presence of ROTC at the University. ROTC is maintained at Harvard by a contract between the Corporation and the Department of Defense. That contract has been challenged on various grounds: because it implicates the University in the Viet Nam war and present American foreign policy, and because that contract subverts the spirit of liberal a status unlike that of any other off-education. We wish to focus on the contract, which has infested ROTC with campus or non-curricular activity. The termination of that contract violates no one's civil liberties...
...Terminate all ROTC contracts with the Defense Department and make no new contracts. The present contractual arrangement for the training of officers here constitutes, as President Pusey indicated during his appearance before the SFAC last month, support for the U.S. military and the policies which it carries out. Harvard should not support these policies, and therefore should make no contracts which commit the University to supporting them...