Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month, where the dean of the Faculty and the masters of the Houses made decisions over brandy and cigars. Students lashed out at authority not only at the national level--at which lies about the war were obvious and frequent and were symbolized by campus manifestations such as ROTC--but also at the level dominated by deans, and college rules and regulations...
...Strike focused on political questions. Students succeeded in forcing ROTC's removal from campus, and in getting an Afro-American Studies Department established. But much of the Strike's drive came from more ill-defined urges to topple figures of authority. W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, and another long-time Yard resident, remembers being thrown out of University Hall by two students--one of whom he knew very well. Young asked, "Why are you doing this?" The student was crying as he seized Young, and said simply, "I've got to, I've got to." The movement...
...also discussed the effectiveness of the strike, many of them agreeing that it was not overwhelmingly significant. "We chanted at the time 'The whole world is watching.' In retrospect, I think it wasn't" Kenneth Glazier '69, a member of the Student Faculty Advisory Committee formed to consider the ROTC issue in 1969 told the crowd...
Susan Peterson, a member of the strike commemoration committee told the audience that the rally organizers are not "hopeless nostalgics. We're not waiting for the sixties to return, but just as this University was complicit in the war through ROTC, it is complicit now in apartheid through its investments," Peterson said
...break 80 was the Crimson's Chip Raffi, the seventh and last man to tee off for the linksters. Raffi finished third in the tournament with 79, three strokes behind medalist Steve Laughlin. Laughlin, a blue-chip freshman who was recruited by Harvard, went to Princeton on an ROTC scholarship. He was only one of five freshmen who played for the Tigers...