Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Harvard sophomores were also named alternates for the fellowhip. Lori L. Outzs and Kam S. Wong will receive no financial aid unless the winners from their home-states decline the scholarship...
They are among the few Harvard graduates who actually look beyond their own worlds to aid others...
Poor people and people of color have always been militarized to a greater extent than their elite counterparts. Now members of Congress want to make some financial aid contingent upon national service--again foisting duties upon people because they can't afford to buy their way out of them...
...been a widespread implication that people choose to participate in ROTC only for financial reasons. This is simply untrue. While ROTC scholarships are certainly an important avenue for students from from lower- and middle-income families, the desire to serve one's country comes before the need for financial aid in most cases. Serving as an officer in the military has been a desired and respected profession throughout the world for hundreds of years. To imply that the only reason one would choose to do ROTC is for money is an affront to the values and beliefs of those...
...Crimson's coverage of the Undergraduate Council debate on the ROTC resolution is, at least in one place, critically misreported. Brian Hecht's article, "Council Votes, 41-24, to Reinstate ROTC" (April 24), mistakenly reports that Harvard ROTC members receive less ROTC aid because Harvard has no ROTC program on its campus. This is not true, as I pointed out in debate; Scott Frewing, co-sponsor of the resolution, responded by saying that only the Army ROTC program puts Harvard ROTC students at a disadvantage. The Navy and Air Force ROTC programs do not, and unless someone just has their...