Word: vietnamize
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...doubt reigned supreme even after invasion began. What was most remarkable about student opinion at Harvard on March 20, the first full day of bombing, was not that 56 percent opposed war—a far cry from the 94 percent of seniors who disapproved of U.S. policy in Vietnam in January 1968. More surprising, especially in the world’s most opinionated zip-code, was that only 41 percent took a strong stand either way, according to The Crimson’s poll. Apathy is a seductive explanation, but for the 37 percent of students who said they...
...legacy of the Vietnam War and the accompanying distrust of government shaped professors’ views on war. By contrast, students focused on gaining adherents at the expense of ideological consistency...
While students led the take over of University Hall protesting the Vietnam War in 1969 and occupied Massachusetts Hall in 2001 demanding a “living wage” for Harvard workers, this time the activists’ ranks included both students and their professors...
McCarthy says that it was inevitable that the Faculty’s first attempt to address the conflict was political given the enormous percentage of them who protested during the Vietnam...
...Faculty had to think through the use of American force in Vietnam,” he says. “You had to develop some sort of set of politics to be anti...