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These were the issues SDS raised in its protest against ROTC. Harvard's established groups--HUC, HPC, SFAC, and the CEP--attempted to anticipate and re-direct the ROTC discussion along apolitical lines. Their resolutions spoke of the sanctity of the ivory tower and the need to stiffen up ROTC's academic face. They succeeded in defusing the discussion of ROTC in official channels. The eventual Faculty debate centered on the academic qualifications of the Training Corps and the nature of the University, not ROTC's role in sustaining U.S. imperialism...
...that point, SDS intervened with a symbolic presence in a last attempt to make the ROTC debate "honest." Amid such subtleties, they attempted to refocus debate on the political aspects of ROTC and its sponsor, the U.S. military. These are the aspects of ROTC which make it of life-and-death importance to millions of people outside of the United States. These are the aspects which SDS sought to raise in its initial protests against ROTC...
...illogical conduct, so uncharacteristic of him, in order to strip these students of whatever leverage they might ordinarily have as student body representatives. Also, if he recognized the HPC, a non-elected group, the Dean would expose himself to pressures to include other such groups of the Committee, like SDS...
...administrates them, and the third studies them. Their hopes for the Committee, conscious or not, probably go something like this: the study will take three months, the reaction will take some time, and in the meantime, several "student leaders" will have developed a large stake in a bad report. SDS will oppose it. Many others will feel compelled to support it in the name of democratic procedure." About this time, the semester will be over...
...program was announced at the SDS meeting last night by Russell T. Nufeld, section leader in Social Relations 149 and regional representative of SDS. Nufeld, who recently returned from Cuba, is organizing the program at Harvard and area schools...