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...students opposed the Vietnam War and lashed out at ROTC, the "alliance between the University and the warmakers" that was a manifestation of the war on campus. They forced their demands on an unsympathetic administration and brought their concerns to an attentive, national press...
Today, the ROTC debate has refocused on the military's ban on gays and its band-aid solution for its discrimination, the "don't ask, don't tell" policy...
...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. Burriss Young '55, who held the same post in 1969. "It was a war where we were being butchered. It had everything bad. Everything that was wrong locked up in the Yard...