Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later, 3500 students voted--by a margin of more than two to one--to suspend the strike in view of an announcement that the Corporation would follow the Faculty's guidelines in upcoming ROTC negotiations. The Corporation's statement touched on virtually all the strike's demands, and in regard to ROTC the Corporation said, it will "continue these negotiations [with the Defense Department] adopting the principle that ROTC should become an extracurricular activity and as such should enjoy no special facilities or privileges not ordinarily available to other extracurricular activities...
...ROTC faded out, of the Harvard picture very quietly. And the issue returned just as quietly. In June, President Bok--perhaps encouraged by the experience of a quiet Spring and wealthy alumni--suggested to an assemblage of Associated Harvard Alumni that bringing back ROTC might not be such a bad idea...
...same committees may no longer be standing on this campus, but that doesn't mean that the militant actions of the Spring of '69 are a thing of the past. If ROTC becomes a serious issue again this Fall, University officials may find themselves suffering from deja...
...WHEN ROTC WAS last an issue at Harvard, the Class of 1977 was busily finishing eighth grade, no doubt reluctantly putting aside Batman comic books for the rigors of algebra and civics. Also in 1969, the Indochina War entered Year V of massive American involvement; 500,000 GIs roamed the Vietnamese countryside, spreading waste and devastation, while American warplanes pulverized much of the rest of Indochina...
...ROTC is again an issue here. Harvard's institutional memory is so short that the outlines of the 1969 struggle, the passions that swirled about during the University Hall occupation and the ensuing strike, are only a bit of folklore to most students. The outcome of this Fall's dispute will perhaps be determined by references to the past, but it will not be to a commonly-shared Harvard past. The vast majority of generally non-political Harvard students--whose voice in whether ROTC should return will be decisive--will cast their allegiance according to how they perceived the character...