Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, the Faculty Council voted to dump its ultimatum to the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) in favor an ageold stall tactic: they want to study the problem further. Specifically, the council gave its committee on ROTC an extension in preparing its report until next fall...
...backing down from its ultimatum, the University offers a poor precedent for other schools and an empty threat to the Pentagon. MIT and the University of Wisconsin, among other colleges, have considered cutting ties to ROTC...
...THIS should be done soon. The Faculty Council voted nearly two years ago to levy the ultimatum against the Department of Defense. That should have been plenty of time to come up with a funding plan to allow needy ROTC students to attend the school (i.e., deepening the need-blind admissions coffers...
...Faculty Council vote yesterday effectively voided their May 1990 ultimatum recommending that Harvard sever all ties with ROTC on May 2 if the military had not changed its policy banning gays...
Michael said he thinks the committee's delay,and its abandonment of the ultimatum, is a goodsign...