Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commencement ago the reinstatement of a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Program at Harvard seemed to be a distinct possibility. President Bok told alumni in a June 13th speech last year that he did not believe "our record and our conscience can be fully clear until we manifest our willingness to entertain an ROTC program on terms compatible with our usual standards...
After Bok's surprise statement--his first public discussion of the ROTC issue as Harvard president--and the enthusiastic support of the alumni, students from the left and the right vowed to resolve the issue once and for all by petitioning for a University-wide referendum to reach a definitive position on whether or not Harvard should maintain an ROTC unit...
...fall of 1973, the New American Movement (NAM), a radical organization, gathered 2500 signatures on a petition calling for an undergraduate referendum on the issue of ROTC. But plans for a referendum faltered as the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) refused in October to sponsor the referendum explaining that the faculty had no plans to debate the issue. Bok and Dean Rosovsky both made statements in the fall making it perfectly plain that they did not want to take on the same forces that drove ROTC from its Harvard base in the spring...
...major activity last fall concentrated on a petition calling for a University-wide referendum on whether ROTC should be permitted back on campus. The action was a response to President Bok's implication before alumni last June that the University might countenance a return of ROTC to Harvard. The petition, circulated at the end of September, eventually garnered 2500 undergraduate signatures. However, the CHUL, which was presented the petition, refused to take action on it, saying that ROTC was not yet an issue. By its action, one NAM representative said, the CHUL was "trying to bury its head...
...administration's apparent support for a return of ROTC to Harvard...