the president of harvard and the navy secretary will sign an agreement today allowing the rotc to return to campus. the change will end decades of dispute over war and military policy. it was the height of the vietnam war. and on harvard university's brik and ivy campus in the heart of cambridge, massachusetts, the anti-war movement was celebrating a symbolic victory, the banning of rotc, the reserve officer's training corps from harvard yard. the students who received scholarship money for training in the military. when the vietnam war ended, another battle took its place, between harvard and the armed forces. this time, it was over the military's policy of banning gays from openly serving their country. that was fuel enough for harvard and other ivy league colleges to keep the rotc ban in place. shortly before the don't ask,