Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Powell speech sparked a symbolic Faculty vote on Harvard's ROTC policy, as well as the balloons and some prominently placed pink triangles on Commencement...
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical student political group, made six demands concerning ROTC and Harvard's expansion into working class neighborhoods...
...units of ROTC cancelled their contracts. Harvard got an Afro-American Studies department. And the administration suffered a devastating attack which it had earlier that same year declared to be "impossible" at Harvard...
...Demands 1. Abolish ROTC completely by breaking all existing ROTC contracts and not entering into any new ones. 2. Replace all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships. 3. Restore all scholarships to the Paine Hall demonstrators. 4. Roll back rents in Harvard University-owned buildings to the level of January 1, 1968. 5. No destruction of 182 Black and white workers' homes around the Medical School. 6. No destruction of University Road apartments for the construction of the Kennedy School...
...Cornell has a lot to brag about that Harvard cannot touch: a coeducational policy that stretches from its founding; a healthy mix of pre-professional and liberal arts students, including hotel-school students; and a rural environment with beautiful gorges, waterfalls and tracts of forest. There is a proud ROTC heritage here and a supercomputer, a distinct architecture and the continued imprint of Ezra Cornell's educational ideals. Frankly, Cornell has a lot to say for itself, without the constant Harvard comparisons. Does the comparison fall in the Ithaca forest if no one in Cambridge hears the sound...