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...April 1969, several hundred students occupied University Hall for almost two days before then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 sent in 400 police officers to evict them forcibly. A three-day student strike followed the bust, and the turmoil led to faculty acceptance of the protester's demands, which included the abolition of ROTC on campus and the creation of an Afro-American Studies Department...
...discussion began with a slide presentation accompanied by original 1969 WHRB broadcasts, illustrating the building sit-in aimed at the expulsion of the Harvard Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) unit. The crowd hissed as the image of then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 appeared on the screen above the panel, and cheered at the flashing picture of students inside University Hall...
Nathan M. Pusey '28, the 82-year-old former president of Harvard, offered his perspective on recent events at the Law School to a Crimson reporter in a recent interview. Pusey, who drew fire for calling in the police to arrest student protesters 20 years ago, compared the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School to the student protesters of a generation ago. CLS, a radical school of legal thought that stresses the law's biases toward the economically privileged, has divided professors at the Law School and prompted Bok's intervention twice in recent years...
...Pusey said, "That faculty in the last 10 years has been going through the kind of thing that Arts and Sciences did way back then [in the 1960s] because of a group in there that feel that law is something that the powers-that-be use not for justice's sake but for their own advantage and that law itself is evil. They're real out-and-out Marxists, these people...
...This is one of the most interesting documents relating to Harvard and [the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)] that has come our way so far," wrote the Mole. In the letter, Ford told Pusey that he disagreed with the anti-ROTC position passed by the faculty, and suggested a number of ways that the Harvard Corporation could get around their opposition...