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...students protested the presence of Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) participants on campus and Harvard Medical School's planned expansion into Roxbury...
Still, students at Harvard were working harder during the war than ever before. V-12 participants and those in the ROTC were required to take a fifth course every semester in physics, engineering or naval history...
...would not go away, of course, and my roommate, Jack Adikes, and I and perhaps a dozen others constituted the ROTC unit, commanded by a Connecticut insurance man called back to service. We had blue-labeled uniforms and marched up and down in a semblance of close-order drill. Then, late in the year, several of is went off to Commonwealth Avenue to sign up, joining something called the Enlisted Reserve Corps. It gave us a one to start our serial numbers (draftees got a three) and let us volunteer for induction as soon as practical in terms of course...
...ground-breaking period in Harvard's age-old history: established power was thrust aside in an institution which generally demanded--and received--respect for traditional authority. Many of the issues which this campus is grappling with today--minority representation in the Faculty, the University's continued affiliation with ROTC and the desire to assure individual rights without inviting victimization--first boiled to the surface, in dramatic fashion, during and after the takeover...
...military does nothing right. Whether it is sexual harassment or Marines blood-pinning each other, there is no question that in recent years the military has seen its share of problems. On campus, if I hear anything at all, it is yet another story about the controversy surrounding ROTC, an organization which violates Harvard's anti-discrimination policy due to the Department of Defense's "don't ask, don't tell" rule...