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...CRIMSON reporter ignores the real issue of U.S. government suppression of Vietnamese people and American blacks. We object to ROTC not because we dislike Harvard, but because we object to the unjust and brutal policies pursued by the government around the world. ROTC is an instrument of these policies, hence we object to ROTC. It is clear that merely denying ROTC academic credit and reducing it to extra-curricular status, or redistributing its courses in other departments, would not eliminate ROTC's capacity to secure human resources on this campus. Peter Bilazarian '69 for the SDS Anti-War Committee
...helping to dramatize that fact, the welfare mothers and their supporters were trying to do something which needed to be done. They are not criminals or conspirators as Governor Volpe would like us to believe. A charge of conspiracy for such a protest as this one is absurd and unjust...
...existed on a single issue: parietals. The group's switch to a more idealistic question--ROTC, this semester-- is the best example of its current renaissance. Just as many Harvard students have, to some extent, left their famous apathy behind in search of seeking peace of mind in an unjust world, so HUC members have changed their focus from an issue of personal freedom to one of more abstract social morality...
There are many ways to express opposition to unjust laws and unfair conditions. The sit-ins and freedom rides of the early 1960's were moving expressions of opposition to segregation laws. In addition, marches such as the 1963 Civil Rights March and the 1968 Poor People's March, helped the passage of more just laws. Democracy is infinitely perfectable--and infinitely imperfect, it does not thrive when its citizens are passive about injustice...
...events after the police "bust" point to the same conclusion. The emotions excited by the brutality must have polarized opinion. There would be a tendency to put unjust blame upon those who called for police intervention rather than those--chiefly from SDS--whose deliberate efforts to provoke disruptive turbulence made it almost inevitable that police action would be required. Despite these complex cross-currents, the extent and persistence of the ultimate reaction against the University Administration is adequately explained only by the presence of strong but latent dissatisfaction quickened by the violence of events...