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Back at her apartment, Lee-Lee makes me a gin and tonic with lots of lime. I pretend to drink it. What I really need is a glass of water, but I don’t want to ask for one because I think it might come off as, “I’m wasted party’s over.” So I go into the bathroom and scoop mouthfuls from the sink until I feel a little better...
...moved away from the era of radical anti-American student activism (for the most part), the policy results achieved by that activism still stand at Harvard. ROTC is now unwelcome here due to the Clinton administration’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids openly gay individuals from serving in the military. Harvard’s continued exclusion of ROTC from campus is not only embarrassingly out of touch; but it is also an egregious display of moral cowardice...
...Ostensibly, ROTC’s absence from campus life can be explained because the university deems the military a discriminatory organization. Harvard’s student handbook argues that the federal government’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy “is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination.” Thus, “the University does not provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program...
...Harvard’s administrators truly wish to dissociate the university from any organizations they deem discriminatory, intellectual consistency demands that the university dissociate itself from the federal government, not the military. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was signed into law in 1993 by then-President Clinton, not the armed services; the military has no influence over whether the law is repealed...
...Harvard to truly be consistent in its opposition to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, it would have to reject all federal grants and funding. However, the university is inconsistent in enforcing its view on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, penalizing the brave men and women who serve their country in ROTC to make a political point. Harvard is willing to make sacrifices to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell—as long as the sacrifices affect only ROTC students and not the university?...