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Both Dunlop and Rosovsky contrast nicely with the presidents under whom they served. Pusey needed a strong man in the Faculty, and found in John Dunlop the aggressive labor-relations background needed to overwhelm torn Faculty alliances. In the Bok Administration's early days, Dunlop kept the Faculty leashed while Bok established his footing...
...that the Class of '72 left behind was just a little different than the one to which its members had come as freshmen, that change was a direct result of the protest in which they had participated. Yet just one year after the Class of '72 bid Harvard farewell Pusey's successor--the man who presumably had inherited the job because of his reputation as a crisis handler, one he had earned as dean of the Law School during the '69 strike--threatened to wipe out the reforms of 1969 by encouraging the return of ROTC...
Several groups charged that the Corporation had, in fact, overruled or attempted to circumvent the Faculty proposal to eliminate ROTC privileges at the University. They demanded that ROTC be abolished immediately. Amid protest, President Pusey and other Ivy League presidents tried ardently to negotiate new contracts with the Defense Department...
...THEN the confrontations really began. On April 8, 300 students forced their way onto the grounds of the President's house on Quincy Street to tack onto Pusey's front door a list of six demands, two of which were directly related to the continuing presence of ROTC on campus. The demonstrators demanded that Harvard abolish ROTC immediately by breaking all existing ROTC contracts and not entering into any new ones, and that the University replace all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships...
...entrances to the Yard were sealed and only freshmen with bursar's cards were admitted. But at dawn, the day after the occupation began, more than 400 police--called by President Pusey and Dean Ford--raided the building and arrested 250 participants in the takeover. About 75 students were injured...