Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowed a voice, now, through student-faculty committees and even, as the University's non-reaction during the 1972 occupation of Mass Hall showed, through demonstrations. But after students have had their voice, the Corporation still does what it wants to. Last year President Bok even suggested that ROTC should come back--speaking as a private citizen, not a university president, he hastened to explain...
...strike was a good thing--it raised important demands, and it helped maintain the pressure that brought changes ranging from ROTC's abolition to coeducation at Harvard--and the spirit of 1969 was a good thing, a spirit that is still crucially important now, though it's in short supply. Student concern for democracy--and that means opposition to foreign and domestic policies like Richard Nixon's now just as it did then--is still a crucial part of any meaningful education. And students should still be concerned with building a democratic university, ruled by students and faculty and alumni...
...department's exectutive board. Derek Bok, chosen president of Harvard in part because the Corporation thought his handling of mild protests at the Law School promised a new responsiveness to students and a new understanding of the issues they raised, announced last year that he'd like to see ROTC back at Harvard. And 1969's far-reaching discussions of university governance died quietly, their promise of a democratic Harvard independent of large corporations and their war machine broken and half-forgotten...
...only a few students were present on campus. At that time President Bok, speaking before alumni gathered in balmy Cambridge to observe the annual Commencement rites, said: "I do not believe that 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 institutional standards...
...surprise statement and the enthusiastic support it received from alumni led to immediate speculation that he had plans to urge the Faculty to reconsider ROTC. But a month later Bok said he had no such plans. "I would like to feel sure we had made an unbiased judgment," he said. "But I have no strong motivation to get it back. I don't know if enough students are interested to warrant bringing it up, and if no one on the Faculty wants to discuss it, I'm not going to push them...