Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty concluded in February 1969 that government-controlled pre-professional military training on campus violated Harvard's definition of liberal education and any reasonable conception of academic freedom. On that basis, it voted to deny ROTC course credit, Faculty appointments, and the free use of Harvard facilities...
What, then, would be the consequence of bringing Harvard ROTC back to life? Is ROTC any less objectionable now that U.S. military interference in Indochina has officially ended...
With the end of the war, not even military supporters can argue that ROTC cadets will fill immediate defense needs. Representatives of every armed service said this summer that existing programs already meet the need for junior officers...
Retired Army Gen. Hugh B. Hester wrote this summer that ROTC graduates, in fact, make relatively poor army material. Because the U.S.'s real defense needs require great technical expertise, Hester said, the army would do better to rely on trained civilians in emergencies...
...ROTC is also unlikely to generate a "civilian-oriented" military. Those cadets most likely to challenge prevailing U.S. policy -- graduate students who enrolled to avoid the draft -- would obviously no longer play a part in ROTC. Those who would enroll in ROTC above and beyond their regular program under no draft pressure would be unlikely to present `new perspectives on defense policy...