Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, the ROTC campaign has shown that the Corporation is not neutral. In fact, the courses which they approve, from the economics department where Marx is a dirty word, to the humanities where art is separated from reality, to the ROTC program which enlists Harvard in the Vietnam war effort, to the riot control course, are hardly neutral. These courses help maintain the status quo of American capitalism and fight those trying to change it. Must we really accept such courses in the name of "freedom," even of "academic freedom" or of "neutrality...
...Fags Out of Harvard." Other picket signs read "Nuke the Pukes" (referring to the nickname for non-jocks at Columbia during the time of the revolt), "We're with you, Sam Huntington" (mentioning the name of the author of the CEP ROTC resolution), and "Send the anarchists to Vietnam" (fine irony in this last...
Early last Fall, SDS focused its attention on the presence of ROTC at Harvard. As the New York Times pointed out in December. ROTC-graduated second lieutenants play a vital role in the Vietnam War. From a broader perspective, the U.S. military provides support for America's more refined imperialist presence in underdeveloped countries around the world with soldiers, weapons technology, and training in counter-insurgency methods...
...meeting on 4 February 1969 invariably lumped everything together as "the Army." Let us nor further insult the intelligence and sensitivity of those interested by pretending that the Faculty motion, and the approval by Harvard Corporation, rest on academic principles. To call a spade a spde, the war in Vietnam precipitated the action at Harvard, not concern for academic quality. There is absolutely no justification for imputing what has happened to a higher (or purer) motive. It is simply political, not academic. Vive le viscera. The cavalier treatment given to ROTC by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences must...
Because some among the 113 professors have contributed to other causes--such as ending the brutal war in Vietnam, it is all the more regrettable that these faculty members should join the attack on the black students. The stark reality of racism in our country requires a fundamentally different approach to questions of this kind. Arnold Lockshin Lecturer in Biology