Word: rotc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-ROTC movement at Harvard is fundamentally irrational in any case because the existence of the ROTC has no direct bearing on American policy in Vietnam or elsewhere. This movement has no intellectual or moral respectability except in a context of genuine pacifism, which is a philosophy which few student demonstrators profess and which many of them betray by their actions. The anti-ROTC movement is mainly an expression of the kind of youthful identity crisis described so well by Erik Erikson. Apart from the fact that this type of emotional crisis makes it difficult to think rationally about complex...
More importantly, classroom disruptions will inevitably turn the Faculty solidly against not only the strike but against the demands behind it. The Faculty demonstrated, at its meeting yesterday, a willingness to act on important issues behind the strike. It approved a resolution whose effect will be to abolish ROTC, and in so doing has properly transferred responsibility for this matter back to the Corporation. On the question of a black studies program, the astounding tactless decision to defer a vote on Afro's demands until next week should not obscure the Faculty's approval of the spirit of those demands...
...good newspaper copy, and cannot help but obscure the underlying issues behind the current crisis at this University. The Corporation must not be given a chance to wrap itself in the cloak of academic freedom; its future actions should be based explicitly and publicly on the real issues of ROTC, expansion, and the structure of the University...
...support the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in its determination to end the academic status of ROTC, and deplore any attempt by the governing board to evade the mandate of the Faculty. Michael W. Bate '58 Robert L. Brandfon GSAS '62 James F. Gilligan '57 Joseph D. Hinkle L'67 Robert H. Johnson '61 Richard J. Levy '58 James A. Sharaf '59 Ralph F. Fuller L'49 John T. Williams '60 Ernest T. Winsor...
...strange new form came out at one large meeting of SDS, the one last Sunday night. It was the mass distribution of printed orange rectangular pieces of paper, three inches by four, reading, "Abolish ROTC, Stop Expansion, Strike." I think you are supposed to stick it on your car window...