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...ROTC AT HARVARD...
...Harvard Corporation approved a new relationship between the University and the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) that will effectively end Harvard's financial ties to the program.....In place of fairness, the military offers a hypocritical "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows homosexuals to serve, so long as they keep their sexuality to themselves and stay celibate....It would seem sensible to permit ROTC as a valuable program but to forswear funding it as part of a discriminatory institution....We asked the administration to further distance itself from ROTC funding by appointing an independent administrator...
Government Professor Stanley Hoffmann and other members of the so-called liberal caucus of the Faculty managed to win over enough of their brethren to remove ROTC from campus...
This was a major symbolic victory but hardly a major blow at the war machine since the Army's demands for junior officers were already plummeting and ones with Harvard degrees were probably pretty low on the list of desirable candidates. (Three close friends in Harvard Army ROTC spent their active duty stateside killing nothing but time--and the Army gave honorable releases to two of them after only six months...
Then there was the McNamara demonstration. The Draft Resistance Movement. Anti-war marches. Protests against ROTC. And then, finally, the takeover of University Hall in April...