Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since army enlisted men already have the opportunity to attend Universities at the army's expense, Harvard ROTC would not be broadening available educational opportunities. It would only return military training to civilian campuses...
...addition, Harvard ROTC failed to affect either the ultimate composition of the army or of the Harvard student body. Few Harvard cadets received any substantial ROTC scholarship, and virtually no ROTC scholarships are granted for need. Thus, the program promoted, and would continue to promote, little upward mobility -- either at Harvard or in the military itself...
...ROTC would make almost no contribution to democratizing the military or fulfilling any genuine defense needs which may exist. It would only enhance the U.S. military's prestige, increase its credibility on other campuses, and legitimize Harvard's other military-related activities...
...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...