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Campus "Unrest" demonstrations and consequences, 1970-1971

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4.) ABOLISH ROTC.
The issue of ROTC is complex. Many students have reservations. Despite these the facts are clear; ROTC contributes to the Indo-China insanity, ROTC officers are not in decision-making positions, ROTC is not part of the acamdeic community because its classes are not open and its system is independent; Eighty percent of the army's junior officers come from ROTC. The zeal with which it is defeated by the military indicate that it is important to them. Whether you think ROTC must be abolished for ideological, symbolic, acamdemic, or pragmatic reasons, you must realize its importance as an issue. One of the officers who is leading the U.S. into Cambodia is an ROTC-graduate. Our campus retains this link to the war; we must end it.
5.) END SEXISM.
Sexism is economic exploitation and discrimination under law in the job market, in oral standards, and in expected social roles. It damages all women in many ways; a woman who graduates from the university has already been conditioned into thinking she must depend on a husband for food and shelter. Her job - if she gets one at all - will pay approximately $3,000 less than the same job held by a man. "Women's jobs"- nursing, clerical, teaching, social work, motherhood - are the ultimate in low-wage service jobs. Women are socialized intothe female stereotype: emotional, irrational, without mind, will power, ir physical self-reliance. This university perpetuates and contributes to the training of women for inferior skills and aids in promogating an inferior self-concept. Fifty-one percent of the population is in bondage. End discrimination based on sex.

These demands are not a package or the outgrow of ideology. They are the issues students are disturbed by. If you agree with any of the above you sjould strike to put pressure on the school and aid in the national movement by students to force these issues into the open. The group purposing the strike and leading it are not and should not be the same people actively involved before but all of you who are concerned but uncommitted.
Above all, let us not act as merely students, but as the moral and rational conscious of our society. Education can provide us the distachment necessary for objectivity, but it must not lead to the distachment from problems and their solution.
STRIKE AND SHOW OUR UNIVERSITY AND NATION THAT YOU HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND WHAT TO FORCE DISCUSSION AND CONSTRUCTIVE CHANGE!!!

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4.) ABOLISH ROTC. The issue of ROTC is complex. Many students have reservations. Despite these the facts are clear; ROTC contributes to the Indo-China insanity, ROTC officers are not in decision-making positions, ROTC is not part of the acamdeic community because its classes are not open and its system is independent; Eighty percent of the army's junior officers come from ROTC. The zeal with which it is defeated by the military indicate that it is important to them. Whether you think ROTC must be abolished for ideological, symbolic, acamdemic, or pragmatic reasons, you must realize its importance as an issue. One of the officers who is leading the U.S. into Cambodia is an ROTC-graduate. Our campus retains this link to the war; we must end it. 5.) END SEXISM. Sexism is economic exploitation and discrimination under law in the job market, in oral standards, and in expected social roles. It damages all women in many ways; a woman who graduates from the university has already been conditioned into thinking she must depend on a husband for food and shelter. Her job - if she gets one at all - will pay approximately $3,000 less than the same job held by a man. "Women's jobs"- nursing, clerical, teaching, social work, motherhood - are the ultimate in low-wage service jobs. Women are socialized intothe female stereotype: emotional, irrational, without mind, will power, ir physical self-reliance. This university perpetuates and contributes to the training of women for inferior skills and aids in promogating an inferior self-concept. Fifty-one percent of the population is in bondage. End discrimination based on sex. These demands are not a package or the outgrow of ideology. They are the issues students are disturbed by. If you agree with any of the above you sjould strike to put pressure on the school and aid in the national movement by students to force these issues into the open. The group purposing the strike and leading it are not and should not be the same people actively involved before but all of you who are concerned but uncommitted. Above all, let us not act as merely students, but as the moral and rational conscious of our society. Education can provide us the distachment necessary for objectivity, but it must not lead to the distachment from problems and their solution. STRIKE AND SHOW OUR UNIVERSITY AND NATION THAT YOU HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND WHAT TO FORCE DISCUSSION AND CONSTRUCTIVE CHANGE!!!