Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last fall 2500 students signed a New American Movement-sponsored petition asking the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life to sponsor a referendum on the ROTC question. The CHUL subsequently rejected that request--unanimously. No one answered a Harvard Republican Club call for people interested in joining a new ROTC program. The issue fizzled...
...present status of ROTC on campus--no ROTC whatsoever--was not attained by a quiet faze-out. While ROTC had led a quiet existence at Harvard since 1916, by 1969 it had become a major issue, one which led to the largest student strike in Harvard history...
...drive to change ROTC's status in the University began in the fall of '68 when countless committees began to debate the merits of academically- accredited Reserve Officer Training Corps units. In early October the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) proposed a plan for curtailing ROTC's privileges, including the removal of academic credit from all ROTC courses. But the resolution had no formal influence, so the faculty-less HUC began to work toward placing the issue on the Faculty docket. Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, offered to introduce the HUC resolution to the Faculty...
Although HUC members wanted to secure a spot for their resolution on the docket primarily as an effort to establish a precedent of regular Faculty consideration of similar student-initiated resolutions, they also wanted to form a united front of student government groups against a credited ROTC program. The HUC appeared before the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee (SFAC), and that appearance prompted two other groups--the Council for Educational Policy (CEP) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC)--to debate the ROTC issue...
...held quiet court but failed to produce any conclusions based upon its hearings into the matter. In early November, however, the HRPC called for the abolition of ROTC's academic status...