Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other recurring expense is the possible detrimental effect on gifts. Again, this is highly speculative. In the past, Harvard has adopted policies which were not popular with conservative corporate executives--for example, abolishing ROTC during the Vietnam War, or refusing to fire a tenured faculty member and former communist during the McCarthy period. In short, we think the financial harm from taking aprincipled stand has been greatly exaggerated...
March 2, 1970. Tonight, a group allegedly from the SDS (that's Students for a Democratic Society, for those of you who are really younger than I want to believe) allegedly set out to allegedly burn down Shannon Hall, the building that housed Harvard's ROTC program. But they were denied free access to the building when campus police aided by Minutemen-like freshman athletes blocked their path. Said the Boston Herald: "The marchers were denied when they confronted a group of freshmen jocks." The aforementioned "jocks" were a group of freshmen who for the most part had been watching...
...Army ROTC...
Both of Stratton's parents are ministers, but she was a predental student at Indiana University in Pennsylvania when she joined ROTC for the physical challenge and the $100-a-month paycheck. She liked ROTC so much that she decided to concentrate on soldiering. She won her commission in June...
...faculty had a majority on the committees, and they used it. The high hopes were dashed. Pressing issues such as sexual integration of the Houses and the presence of ROTC on campus began to vanish...