Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Republican Club (HRC) launched a campaign last week to revive ROTC at Harvard...
...singled out for special criticism the day the occupation began when The Old Mole, a Cambridge-based radical newspaper, published a confidential letter taken from his files in which Ford implied that he would like to undermine a Faculty decision to strip ROTC of academic credit...
...many Harvard students have been drafted since the abolition of student deferments two years ago. Schendel said. He said that students who thought they were about to be drafted usually joined ROTC units...
Liberty Loans, Red Cross and ROTC took up space in the paper during the War along with a suggestion that the University conserve fuel by scheduling all appointments and official functions an hour earlier. The not-quite-original idea was never implemented--another straw ballot allowed that students opposed it, 680-383--but the same effect was achieved throughout the country by the Congressional adoption Daylight Savings Time in 1918. When the draft age was lowered in the spring of 1918, the stall was even more drastically depleted, and the paper gave up publication on June...
...such a point that it seemed unlikely that students and administrators could ever see eye to eye on the role of the University. By April 1969, the situation was unsalvageable. While SDS and others demanded an end to military and military-industrial recruiting. Harvard expansion into poor communities, the ROTC program, and other connections between the University and war-related activities, administrators walked a fine line of distinctions and differentiations in seeking to reach a satisfactory balance of demands. The wheels of bureaucracy move with excruciating tardiness, and this bureaucracy could not move fast enough to satisfy one segment...