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...equally interesting and equally saddening that those persons who engaged in disruptive behavior did so, not simply ignoring the First Amendment, but also ignoring the First Amendment, but also ignoring the ever-present example of the Spartacus Youth League. The SYL has attempted to use such tactics for years, and they arouse only antipathy toward themselves and their cause. I realize that the radical-fringe types have little respect for the constitution: I didn't realize, until last night, that they were so stupid...
...Enemies of the ROTC (EROTC) is a coalition of undergraduates who are ideologically opposed to the principles on which ROTC is based and who wish to defend the 1969 faculty legislation that prohibits any special relationship between Harvard and ROTC. Our group is in no way linked to the Spartacus Youth League, which pirated the name "Enemies of ROTC" for its own purposes after our group had already been formed. The distinction between our group, which is in the process of applying for recognition as an official undergraduate organization, and the SYL's unilaterally proclaimed "United Front" should be clear...
...Spartacus Youth League is opposed to ROTC--the direct use of the university for the military training of the future butchers of workers and peasants around the world. Fully 70 percent of U.S. Army officers are recruited and trained by ROTC. Today their "adventures" include a Bay of Pigs II against Nicaragua, arming and training the bloody Salvadoran junta, dropping napalm (invented at Harvard) on Cambodia. Tomorrow they hope to annihilate the USSR...
However, the wet dreams of ROTC and its "friends" need not become our living nightmares. The Spartacus Youth League his initiated a united from, Enemies of ROTC, open to all opponents of the direct use of the university for military training...
Whether or not the Crimson's staff of novelists are intellectually capable of making the distinction between views and deeds, we are, and demand that you print this letter as a correction to your falsehoods. Alden Cavanagh, Special Student Spartacus Youth League