Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THINGS at Harvard this Fall are likely to seem as surprising as the revived spectre of Harvard ROTC. Few University policies have enjoyed more unanimous support than the Faculty's 1969 recommendation to deny ROTC the privileges of regular Harvard programs...
...Spring 1969, President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey decided to defy the Faculty's overwhelming anti-ROTC vote. The consequences included a building occupation and a brutal police bust leading to 250 arrests and dozens of injuries...
...near-unanimous vote followed a student strike so quickly, a few students and alumni and President Bok have suggested that only political expediency motivated the Faculty's decision. Bok went so far as to tell alumni last June that Harvard's good conscience depends on its willingness to reconsider ROTC...
...Faculty's original academic objections to ROTC still stand -- as the Faculty's apparent lack of interest in reviving the debate indicates. The original votes followed months of comprehensive study by three Faculty committees and the old Harvard Undergraduate Council...
...answer is "ROTC" and his explanations are flimsy, he will have missed one question--and flunked the whole test...