Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advocate the full return of ROTC to Harvard. As an undergraduate in 1969, I was twice suspended from Harvard for occupying buildings with the demand to abolish ROTC. Why is my position changed...
United States involvement in Southeast Asia continues. Our massive infusion of dollars and weapons is criminal and must be stopped. But the absence or return to Harvard of ROTC will have no effect on the course of the war now. Only by weakening Nixon and his policies of aggression can we help the Vietnamese to find peace among themselves...
...working for freedom and justice. Returning democracy to Greece or preventing its overthrow in Chile are achievements that must be wrought by a partnership of a progressive government and an enlightened military. So while we work for the removal of Nixon from the White House, let us return ROTC to Harvard. John Hook...
...Like the work of government professors --Samuel P. Huntington, for instance--who theorized for the Army during the Indochina war, like the work of economists--some of those at Harvard's Development Advisory Service, for example--who advise dicatorships around the world on keeping their economies running, like the ROTC program President Bok would like to see return to Harvard, Curran's work is not solely academic. Its implementation would have immediate, direct effects on other people's lives. That's why Curran was right to call the governors' failure to implement the plan immediately "commendable" in view...
...original blacklist made it appearance in February 1972 when the House Armed Services Committee, with Hebert at its head, ruled that the Defense Department could not train its military personnel at universities that have unilaterally dropped ROTC. The ruling stipulated that personnel could continue to train at any university with "unique and irreproduceable programs...