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...There was another happy symbol at President Faust’s inaugural, and it was the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) color guard, which led the procession out of Tercentenary Theatre. The status of ROTC at Harvard is suspended in a troubled balance of forces, both historical and moral. Today Harvard ROTC students can stand guard over our president, and yet Harvard pretends ROTC isn’t there, except to deny it support...
...Strike may have had the support of a multi-ethnic constituency at Harvard, but many of the affirmative voters were motivated by the other issues in question, particularly the elimination of the ROTC program in order to demonstrate the University’s opposition to the Vietnam War. Ten years later, when the Coalition for Awareness and Action included strengthening the Afro-American Studies Department in a list of objectives for a second student strike, the response was underwhelming. “Afro-Am?” one sophomore said in a 1979 article published in the Crimson...
...line of students in the military will march at University President Drew G. Faust’s inauguration on Friday, a symbol that may warm Harvard’s historically icy relations with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). At the request of Harvard cadets, Faust agreed to allow seven students from the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force to lead the closing procession in Harvard Yard in a flag-bearing ceremony known as a color guard. In June, Faust and then-Interim President Derek C. Bok drew fire from The Wall Street Journal for not attending the annual ROTC...
...Department of Defense functions. Not only do we agree with their assessments about the American academy in general, but we are also concerned about the situation at Harvard. Since the social uprisings of the late sixties, Harvard has distanced itself from the military. The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) was banished from Harvard in 1969, the same year as the student takeover of University Hall to protest the Vietnam War. With it went the close ties between Harvard and the military that defined the institution during World War II and even into the Kennedy administration. While bringing ROTC back...
...federal law mandates that universities receiving federal funds allow the military access to their campuses, but the ROTC has chosen not to open an office at Harvard. Harvard cadets participate in the program at MIT, which was officially approved by Harvard's faculty under...