Word: rotc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fordham University, 400 students turned out for a mass rally called by the Committee to Abolish S.D.S. Angered by the violent tactics that S.D.S. had used to protest ROTC at Fordham, the students called on the university's president, Father Michael Walsh, to bar the organization from the campus...
Fouraker refused to state his personal position on the ROTC issue and would not comment on the Faculty's Vietnam acte in October. He did say, however, that "if the people in the College have the view that Business School students are maximizing technicians, they are still looking at a stereotype that never...
...Fordham University in The Bronx, 36 students barricaded themselves inside the administration building for seven hours to protest the school's failure to abolish ROTC. The students used lead pipes and buckets of hot water to repulse unarmed campus guards but fled when city police arrived. They left behind ransacked offices and a white bed sheet with the word revolution scrawled across it in red. Six students were arrested, and at least six campus guards were injured, one seriously...
...tell under Blaine's attack for thinking that the university, instead of being "essentially neutral . . . should make itself a political force . . . by counteracting certain forces which they feel as evil-undermining the Armed Forces, for example, by eliminating ROTC or . . . denying the government access to university facilities...
...strange logic-though often used-which holds that university involvement with ROTC and government research is in keeping with a neutral role. but that refusal to be linked with these things is a highly political act aimed at "undermining the Armed Forces...