Materials for Group Five

Topic: ROTC on Campus

Directions: Start with the core resources, then move to the additional resources if you have time. Click on each resource to navigate to the Internet Archive or Digital Repository System, where you can read documents and view photographs.   In the Internet Archive, use the zoom button and page turner on the bottom right of the viewer interface. In the DRS, click the download button to view the document in higher resolution and read multiple pages.

For each resource, note the number of sequential pages you should look through in the caption citations listed on this page. For resources from the Cauldron: if the citation specifies a single headline, read only the corresponding article. If a citation specifies "full page(s)", read and view all articles and images on those pages.

After you have examined your resources, return to the Lesson Plan page and reflect on the Document Analysis Questions.

Background Note: With a traditional focus on professional education and co-op rather than liberal arts studies, NU had  the largest voluntary ROTC army in the country as of 1968.  The first documented anti-Vietnam War protest on campus occurred in December 1965, organized by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Throughout the mid- to late-1960s the SDS would become more active and student and faculty opinion of the War and ROTC would begin to shift. Still, students found the University administration reluctant to eliminate or reform the campus ROTC program.


Core Resources

 Excerpt from two pages. Cauldron (Boston, MA, 1973), 68-69.*

*Begin with paragraph "Spring 1972 was highlighted…” [p. 68] through paragraph “… ROTC would stay just as it was.” [p. 69].


Additional Resources (Optional)