Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRESIDENT Bok said last week that his opinion on ROTC "would not be formed on the basis of a referendum." Bok, as anyone else, is entitled to choose whatever criteria he likes to judge the legitimacy, morality, or effectiveness of on-campus military training. But the Faculty, and the University, is entitled to know whether the students--the largest sector of the Harvard community--want the U.S. military to train its junior officers here...
Like Bok's, our opinion will not be formed by the referendum. Solid arguments exist against reinstituting Harvard ROTC regardless of popular demand. But a referendum will raise the issue of ROTC in public -- more effectively than Bok raised it last June in his Commencement speech to alumni...
...while the Faculty debated ROTC, protest against the Vietnam war dramatized the University's role in supporting the U.S. military. Napalm was invented in Harvard's labs. Much of the anti-personnel technology used on the electronic battlefield was developed from projects conducted by Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics...
Only three Ivy League schools now have ROTC in any form. Cornell, as a land-grant university, is required to continue the program...
Princeton's trustees issued a report last week in support of reinstating Army's ROTC. A student-faculty committee, however, concluded that "a strong case" existed against ROTC at Princeton...