Word: anti-rotc
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...student who uses scholarship and words to resist the authoritarianism and the injustice of senescent power gets an A for the lessons of Harvard College. In the history of Harvard, many students and professors will mistake the socialist student activism of the 1930s, the African-American and anti-ROTC activism of the ‘70s, the South African divestment activism of the ‘80s, and the workers’ rights activism of the ‘90s for rebellions against the university. In fact, they are the new fruits of knowledge fertilized by the old fallen leaves...
Moreover, student anti-ROTC activism seems to have relatively little to do with gay rights. If it did, much more would be made of compensating cadets who are discharged for their sexuality and then are stuck with thousands of dollars in debt. Indeed, if gay rights was the primary and only objection to ROTC, Harvard’s activism would be focused at lobbying Congress to change the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law. But this is hardly the reality. Last week, half of the Law School?...
...enforcement of the Solomon Amendment. Given an unpleasant campus history with the military—one that includes burning draft cards, denouncing the armed forces as fascists or more recently as “occupiers,” and flights to Canada—it is rather clear that anti-ROTC activism has more to do with an antipathy toward the military, rather than its exclusion of homosexuals...
...Cromwell wrote an op-ed in The Crimson in February in which he criticized what he called “the persistent anti-ROTC sentiment on Harvard’s campus...
...give free Sox tickets to these anti-ROTC pinko-liberals...