Word: vietnam
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...issues and events that affected the Class of 1974 ran the gamut. Political issues like the Vietnam War and the draft were at the forefront, but Harvard students were also tackling the problems of diversity on campus and a rapidly changing relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe...
...Piltch's senior year, the "hotbed" had cooled. The end of the Vietnam War and disillusionment with the Nixon administration made for an apathetic student body more concerned with rising energy costs than social injustices...
James was a senior in 1969 who had spent the last year agitating for the expulsion of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from campus. The ROTC program represented Harvard's closest connection to the Vietnam War, he says...
...friends who I went to high school with who were killed in Vietnam," he says. "Everybody in that period had to ask themselves some pretty fundamental questions about what they believed and what they were going...
...seems to me [that] the student movementactually did eventually end the war in Vietnam,and that's a tremendous accomplishment," Jamessays...