Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just beginning to wonder why there had been such a lull in the usual progression of politically primitive and crazy Crimson pronouncements. But my prejudices were reconfirmed by the editorial board majority's railing against cross-registration for ROTC at MIT. How nostalgic. It takes me back to my senior year when the ROTC issue brought the student revolution to Harvard. It is interesting, though, that the current Crimson position is even more myopic than that of its predecessors in 1969, and is inconsistent on either moral or empirical grounds...
...second count, it strikes me as both ludicrous and disgusting that a student would not be allowed to cross-register for ROTC, while students are currently allowed to receive academic course credit for part-time jobs or avocations--i.e., the "Independent Work" option...
...reasons for the unacceptability of ROTC, in its function as a training ground for the United States military, should be immediately apparent. Since World War II, the United States military has been the primary instrument of an interventionist foreign policy designed to suppress the initiatives of third world countries towards economic and political self-determination. The full implications of this policy were seen in the fifteen years of war in Southeast Asia where the armed forces conducted a campaign of terror and murder against the Indochinese people. The aggression of the Marines against Cambodia in the Mayaguez incident suggests that...
Students faced with the option of participating in a morally reprehensible institution as a way of financing their education should not remain obvious to the ideological implications of their actions. Enrollment in ROTC is not a value-neutral means of paying for one's college costs...
Given the nature of the Army, no educational institution which claims to have a commitment to human values should have any sort of connection with it. ROTC in its guise as a non-credit, extra-curricular activity is no more acceptable than in any of its previous forms. In reviving the link between Harvard and ROTC, the Faculty has commited an act of grave moral irresponsibility...