Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several groups charged that the Corporation had, in fact, overruled or attempted to circumvent the Faculty proposal to eliminate ROTC privileges at the University. They demanded that ROTC be abolished immediately. Amid protest, President Pusey and other Ivy League presidents tried ardently to negotiate new contracts with the Defense Department...
...THEN the confrontations really began. On April 8, 300 students forced their way onto the grounds of the President's house on Quincy Street to tack onto Pusey's front door a list of six demands, two of which were directly related to the continuing presence of ROTC on campus. The demonstrators demanded that Harvard abolish ROTC immediately by breaking all existing ROTC contracts and not entering into any new ones, and that the University replace all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships...
...climax came on April 9 when several hundred anti-ROTC demonstrators occupied University Hall and ejected all Administration officials and staff members, some by force...
They also insisted that a binding eferendum of students and Faculty be conducted to determine the future status of ROTC, and that the Corporation be restructured to include representatives of the entire teaching community including teaching fellows, students, Faculty and Administration. With no response to heir action from the Administration, several thousand students rallied in Soldier's Field and voted to extend the trike by three days...
Then, on April 17, the Faculty esolved that any Harvard ROTC unit should be no more than an ordinary extracurricular activity "with no special privileges or facilities granted either by contract or informal agreement." The Bruner Resolution, adopted by a 385-25 margin, provided that "existing contracts inconsistent with this principle be terminated as soon as legally possible and that scholarship funds be provided where need is created by this decision...