Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Petition was circulated through the Harvard community asking people to remove the "stool pigeon" clause that said Navy ROTC students had to report other students "associating or acting with or attending informal or social functions of an attached list of 'subversive' organizations." The petition was sponsored by The Crimson, the Young Republicans, the American Veterans Committee, the National Lawyers Guild, the Teachers Union and was sent to the administration. Harvard loyalty oath declared invalid--wording was wrong...
...While Schlesinger found this position "interesting," he does not see Harvard as the perfect institution--he recently criticized the administration's stance on ROTC...
...penalize a handful of undergraduates who choose to join ROTC--as a way of expressing the faculty's frustration in not being able to determine national policy--strikes me as ignoble; it will not go down as Harvard's finest hour," he wrote...
...Schlesinger seemed to feel this mistaken position of the faculty concerning ROTC was symptomatic of Harvard's disconnection with the real world...
...international banker and ex-Governor's aide. First Sergeant Terry Horton, 47, retired from the Army three years ago. Currently, instead of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or traveling with the Army drill team, he teaches the 160 boys and girls enrolled in Chamblee's Junior ROTC. "I have a great rapport with the kids," he says. "They respect me, and I respect them." And, he adds, "there is not a day that goes by when I do not feel blessed. I would not change this job for anything else...