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James was a senior in 1969 who had spent the last year agitating for the expulsion of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from campus. The ROTC program represented Harvard's closest connection to the Vietnam War, he says...
...says now he feels the actions of the building's occupiers--ostensibly about Harvard's involvement in America's war effort in Vietnam through its support of the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC)--were a worthwhile protest against a University out of touch with its students...
...Having served as president of a student-Faculty committee which attempted to head off anti-war controversy before the takeover, Glazier said he was permanently disillusioned by the Harvard Corporation's refusal to listen to the Faculty suggestions on ROTC...
...demands, but the most important andmost widely supported was the first: that theUniversity abolish ROTC immediately. To manystudents, Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corpswas the most egregious of the University's ties tothe military. The students inside the buildingvoted to offer only nonviolent resistance shouldpolice storm the building...
Before the year was out, the protestors hadsucceeded in winning major changes from theadministration. The Corporation finally agreed tokick ROTC off campus...