Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing has diverted our attention from Harvard's role in support of U.S. imperialism. A discussion of ROTC can bring these issues to the fore again. A referendum can only broaden people's awareness of Harvard's continuing complicity in anti-democratic movements at home and abroad...
Students should sign the New American Movement petition which calls for the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life to conduct a referendum on ROTC. The petition does not commit its signers to vote for or against Harvard ROTC, but it may serve to raise issues that should be discussed. Students are entitled to debate Harvard's proper relation to the military, and the University deserves to know if the opinion of its President, its most visible spokesman, in any way represents the sentiments of the Harvard community...
...important to the University to get rid of these five students? Hardly. But it is important to intimate activists so that the return of B.U. ROTC will provoke no organized protest. Nothing is so frightening as the successful exercise of arbitrary power. Even an overwhelming CLA faculty vote last month "insisting" that the hearings be halted has failed to deter the administration in prosecuting the five students...
...administration is trying Ostrow retroactively under a disciplinary code muscled through in April by B.U. PresidentJohn Silber. The code aims to avoid such embarrassments as Ostrow's earlier acquittal and to forestall future protest over recruiting and ROTC...
Silber's handling of the code -- like his secret poll on ROTC after school ended last Spring -- reveals a president-faculty relationship totally alien to the experience of Harvard. Harvard's Faculty is the President's most prestigious and politically most significant constituency. Had Nathan Pusey not crossed the Faculty on ROTC in 1969, Derek Bok might now still be dean of the Law School...