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...despite the change in the ROTC debate, several campus leaders of 1969 say they see parallels between student objections to ROTC then...
...students in 1969, the attack on University Hall was not just a protest against ROTC, or a stab at University Hall. It embodied the anger of a generation--anger at the 1968 deaths of Martin Luther king Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy '48, anger at a conformist society and anger at the images of slaughter in Vietnam splashed all over the evening news...
...wasn't just ROTC as ROTC. It was the whole bloody thing," remembers Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriess Young '55, who held the same pot in 1969. "It was a war where we were being butchered. It had everything bad. Everything that was wrong was locked up in the Yard...
...months later at Paine Hall, students crashed a Faculty meeting that was to consider Harvard's curricular ROTC ties. At the Time, ROTC students attended military science classes taught by military-appointed professors on campus. The protest forced the Faculty meeting to be canceled...
...Faculty voted in February 1969 to rescind ROTC's academic status and make it an extracurricular activity...