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Harvard's vocal left-wing publications and activist groups--notably Perspective, The Crimson, Committee on Central America (COCA), Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC) and South African Solidarity Committee (SASC)--have reached virtually identical liberal conclusions on what is "correct" and have delineated the sides of campus debate in black and white...
...take the ROTC debate last spring. Among members of ARAC, for example, support for the mere existence of the military was wrong. The questions of the necessity of the military and of the possibility that Harvard students could change it from within were simply irrelevant. Many of the PC ideologues dismissed the military as homophobic, sexist, racist, classist, anti-intellectual and--God Forbid!--violent. Since the military is so clearly evil, we should not pay the least attention to its supporters...
...ARAC began its lobbying efforts in November after the navy ROTC program based at MIT held a drill at Harvard...
...ARAC members charge that ROTC has been granted "special privilege" because it has held official functions on campus while not complying with the anti-discrimination pledges other officially recognized groups must agree...
...ARAC member Jeanne F. Theoharis '91, a senior editor of the liberal magazine Perspective, said she was optimistic that the Faculty would modify its ROTC legislation...