Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success with the War. The War is over. But did anything we do in and around University Hall in the Spring of 1969 contribute to that end? As a result of the Strike, the Harvard Faculty did eliminate the ROTC program. But did that help end the War in Vietnam...
...transform Harvard, we ignored politics, our militant action probably had little effect on the War in Vietnam, and we did not even enjoy ourselves very much. Is there anything that can still be said today for our part in the 1960s...
Neal I. Koblitz '69, a mathematician at the University of Washington, donates the royalties he receives from his books to a fund he and his wife set up to aid women scientists in Vietnam. Koblitz's Harvard classmate, Michael K. Fenollosa '69, now an assistant vice-president at Boston's Shawmut Bank, writes in recent Class Record Book: "Needless to say, and I suppose, somewhat regretfully. I have become a political conservative (it seems hard to believe that I once voted for George McGovern for President.)" The two men represent two of the many different solutions to the dilemma that...
...some, like Ross C. Owens '69, the events of '69 were a brief prelude to a longer period of activism. Owens entered and dropped out of divinity school after Harvard, and did two years of service as a minister to fulfill his duty as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war. After being involved in community organizing and issues of social justice during those two years. Owens went to law school and worked for several years in a federally-funded legal services organization. "It took me a little while to put it all together," he says...
Since 1969, Harvard protests have not reached this level again, in either numbers of intensity. Neither, however, has Harvard returned to the placid era of the early 1950s. For example, when the Vietnam War ended, students refocused on a cause of even greater longstanding--full racial equality. Initially attention was directed at the University's internal policies. Student protest helped in establishing the Afro-American Studies Department one of the standards of the '69 strikers...