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Members of the Harvard Republican Club staged a small protest in front of the Science Center yesterday to push for the University to change its policies on students in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, who currently do not get course credit for ROTC classes taken at MIT. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Harvard originally banned ROTC from campus 40 years ago, amid anti- Vietnam War sentiment. Since then, Harvard has continued to ban the program citing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prevents openly gay people from serving in the armed forces...
...Rachel L. Wagley ’11, one of the protesters and secretary of the Harvard Republican Club, said policies toward ROTC should not be affected by the military’s treatment of people who are openly...
Petraeus took the stage at the IOP following a lengthy introduction, which included a presentation of flags by the Harvard ROTC Color Guard as well as speeches from Harvard Center for Public Leadership Director David R. Gergen, Harvard Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood, and student veterans Maura C. Sullivan and Seth W. Moulton...
...barged in at noon on April 9th. One picked up and carried a dean outside, and another punched an assistant dean in the face. The students evicted all the administrators and let in hundreds more protesters throughout the afternoon and night, until the number mushroomed to 500. They wanted ROTC to be eliminated, since the draft was taking so many students away to Vietnam. They were also angry about what they felt was an out-of-touch administration--the most salient example being the 1968 Commencement, which was held in Sanders Theatre with only the summa cum laudes attending...