Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petitions calling for a student referendum on the return of ROTC to Harvard will circulate in dining halls today, spokesmen for the New American Movement (NAM) said last night...
...sponsored petitions receive signatures from over 50 percent of the student body, NAM plans to the solicit aid from the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) in order to organize an official vote on whether undergraduates want the return of ROTC on campus...
...resurrection of ROTC would be remarkable if only for the strength it would lend such anti-democratic forces. ROTC has no place at any free, socially conscious University. But at Harvard, Bok's judgment of the Faculty and his analysis of the University's conscience represent a particularly grave insult...
...Vietnam war or Gulf Oil's alliance with colonialist Portugal, Bok refused, arguing that the issues required more careful study. No one, he said, would want Harvard's president to make glib pronouncements. But Bok said in August that he made his June speech without reviewing Faculty reports on ROTC, without knowing whether enough students wanted ROTC back to provide the minimum enrollment for establishing a unit, without consulting Faculty for their recollections of 1969, or reviewing reports of that Spring's events to see if his charges were true...
...University bore the pain of a searching review of whether ROTC belonged at Harvard. It did not belong at Harvard then. ROTC still does not belong on any civilian campus. In good conscience, Harvard should stand firmly by its position. In good conscience, Bok should make more thoughtful statements...