Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue of ROTC's return was never decisively resolved one way or the other in 1973-74. It just fizzled out as every issue seems to be doing in this post-strike...
...Faculty voted overwhelmingly in April 1969 to deny ROTC the privileges of regular Harvard programs. And it seemed then that the issue was closed and ROTC was gone for good...
...March 1969, President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey decided to defy the Faculty's vote. The Corporation will "do everything possible to keep ROTC," Pusey announced at that time. The result: one building occupation, 250 arrests, scores of injuries and a heightened polarization between liberal Faculty and students on the one hand and the Corporation and Administration on the other...
...logical that Bok and Rosovsky did not want to resurrect the ROTC issue during the 1973-74 academic year because the events of 1969 were too vivid in their memories. CHUL did not want to take action because it also feared the consequences of opening a wound that had just begun to heal...
Rosovsky took office last summer, announcing from the start that he wanted the Faculty and Faculty Council to be concerned with educational issues, not political ones; he had unpleasant memories of the days when the Faculty used to debate things like ROTC and the Indochina war in its meetings...