Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty had already voted to withdraw academic credit for ROTC courses, and after the siege of University Hall it passed a resolution forbidding ROTC "special privileges or facilities granted either by contract or informal arrangement." Shortly thereafter, all three divisions of ROTC separately withdrew from the Harvard campus...
...even if the Faculty were to ask for ROTC's return without academic credit, as the council has suggested, the military would probably not return without special arrangements...
...council's resolution is completely meaningless. The question of whether ROTC can exist as an on-campus extra-curricular activity was settled 20 years ago. On May 29, 1968, a special faculty committee appointed by the Harvard Corporation concluded that "The armed services interpret the relevant public law as forbidding them to accept arrangements under which ROTC would become altogether extracurricular, with no contractual intermediation by the University beyond that afforded ordinary extracurricular activities...
...Beijing city government has declared the protests illegal. On Wednesday, Beijing Communist Party Secretary Li Ximing told a special meeting of 10,000 party officials, "We must firmly stop such riots...
Harvard's Black alumni often feel a special sense of leadership duties. "There is a tradition at Harvard that you have a special responsibility," Clark said...