Word: students
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change, you will do everything in your power to encourage Harvard graduates to enter the military. Being educated in the open-minded, liberal environment of Harvard has certainly made me better prepared to deal with the issue of homsexuality should it arise during my military career. Denying a Harvard student a ROTC scholarship does not mean that there will be one less officer in the military, it just means that officer will come from another source...almost certainly somplace that places less emphasis on civil liberties...
...mistakenly reports that Harvard ROTC members receive less ROTC aid because Harvard has no ROTC program on its campus. This is not true, as I pointed out in debate; Scott Frewing, co-sponsor of the resolution, responded by saying that only the Army ROTC program puts Harvard ROTC students at a disadvantage. The Navy and Air Force ROTC programs do not, and unless someone just has their heart set on fighting for the Army and going to Harvard, there's no reason why a potential ROTC student can't choose an ROTC program that gives them the full scholarship...
...this weekend's minority alumni reunion, Edward Dawson '81 remembered the time that President Derek C. Bok fled from student activists in a squad car. A discussion about the University's investments in South Africa had turned into an angry crowd, and Bok felt threatened. "Students were so vociferous," Dawson said...
Dawson said one explanation for the trend towards upper-income families is that there are fewer social pressures on a student from that environment. "It's a lot easier to find the suburban upper-middle-class minority student," he explained...
...Black students also lack role models because of a longstanding dearth of minority faculty members. Black student protestors in 1969 demanded more Black faculty members, and students protested the same problem as recently as yesterday. The problem is a national one, in part because a disproportionately small number of Black students enter Ph.D. programs...