Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the June 30, 1971, Faculty deadline fast approaching, the remaining Navy and Air Force ROTC units-an eighth of what they were two years ago-are pulling out in the next two weeks. And nobody's coming around to say they're sorry...
...ROTC has been getting the Cinderlla step-child treatment from the Harvard bureaucracy. Last August, the name of their building got changed overnight and new signs for the "Vansberg Building," whatever that means, replaced "Shannon Hall...
...from the Harvard Archives walked in last month to scoop up souvenirs and knickknacks-wall maps, posters, trophies and records-for an exhibit sometime in the distant future when "someone may come in and think, gee, Harvard once had a ROTC unit here...
There are no more Faculty meetings to attend. The Army ROTC unit, which left last year, had to make a special application for a room in order to hold its commissioning ceremonies for the last 18 graduates one night last week. The Committee on ROTC refused to give the Naval ROTC Commander Harold "Red" Pollack a single room to advise the nine midshipmen who will finish at Harvard next year. Harvard also turned down a last request to list ROTC grades on the student transcript as extracurricular activities...
...officers have been reassigned to new posts. Pollack and Smithlin are going to the Business School on a Navy training program. Others on the staff will split up to different reserve units in the East. One has the pleasure of leaving this postmortem for another at Brown, where the ROTC program will be closing out to meet Brown's June 1972 deadline...