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TWENTY years ago this week, the rising tide of activism at Harvard erupted into the most dramatic confrontation in Harvard's history, dividing the student body and faculty, and pitting both against the administration. On April 9, 1969, hundreds of students occupied University Hall, demanding the expulsion of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), the introduction of Afro-American studies courses and an end to the University's encroachment on Cambridge neighborhoods...
...although President Derek C. Bok has never unleashed riot police upon students, Harvard's administration remains aloof and unresponsive to student and faculty initiatives...
...student and alumni divestment movement--in moving from mass protests and the erection of shanties in 1984 and 1985 to the alternative slate of pro-divestment overseers candidates nominated by petition for the past four years--has demonstrated a willingness to continually address the success of its tactics. There is no standard set of tactics that is right for every movement or for every point in history. Without an overwhelmingly polarizing issue such as Vietnam to unite behind, there is no easy formula for increasing political activity. The point is to keep trying...
Another reason has something to do with the perception of college athletics. While the nation is questioning whether the NCAA and scholarship schools emphasize sports over academics, non-scholarship Harvard won a major national championship. The NCAA should spend its time publicizing what a group of student-athletes did one Saturday night in April. Maybe that would help bring back the Collegiate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...next time you read about some college accused of illegal recruiting or a poor graduation rate for student-athletes, find a VCR, get a taped copy of the 1989 hockey championship game and watch Krayer score again. And again. And again...