Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students at colleges throughout the country should have particularly fond memories of Hebert as the man who led a fight in Congress to keep the Reserve Officers Training Corps on the campuses. He sought to exclude colleges who did away with ROTC from government programs in order to punish them...
...faculty warn of the hazard of "Faculty submission" to intrusion by the government. Lawrence L. Besserman, assistant professor of English and head tutor in the department, says that some faculty have augured that quiet acceptance of the files legislation will only provide a helpless precedent, ultimately even for "forced ROTC...
Everyone agrees that if there has been any event over the last half century that could have dissuaded past supporters from keeping up the money flow to Harvard, it was the expulsion of ROTC in 1969. Yet, friends of Harvard--many of whom attended the College as ROTC students--though they may speak bitterly of this affair, generally say that it did not significantly affect the long-term giving patterns of more than a few alumni. The current discussion of sex ratios among the undergraduate population, while a topic of concern for many alumni--especially those with sons nearing college...
...national play to Harvard student politics in 1965, when hundreds of students surrounded Robert McNamara outside of Quincy House and forced him to answer questions about the Vietnam War. The headlines continued, reched a climax during the Strike of 1969, when students angered by the bloody eviction of anti-ROTC protestors from University Hall shut Harvard down, but began to recede...
...distinguish the Provisionals from the Officials chiefly by their attitudes: CHUL members are more likely to be interested in Harvard politics for its own sake; the Extracurriculars more often because they think that it reflects national trends that they're interested in. In the more politicized time of the ROTC controversy, when people had to make their arguments explicit and defend their premises, the differences came out quite strongly. Most of the Provisionals, then centered around Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), wanted ROTC kicked off campus because they thought an organization like the United States Army didn't have...