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...says.Moving off campus with her husband freed Karmel from many of the social restraints imposed by the house mothers and her parents.“Whatever my husband and I decided, that’s what we did—I didn’t have to ask my parents,” she said.However, Karmel’s move was within the confines of her generation. “You were passed from your father’s care to your husband’s care,” she said. DEFYING CONVENTIONSAlthough only a handful of women entered...
...society Phi Beta Kappa graduates at the Signet Society, an official from the Eisenhower administration had been recruited to give the after-dinner speech. He addressed the importance of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as a crucial component of national defense.Marglin said he stood up to ask a question.“Why does everything we do for a good reason have to be in the name of defense?”According to Marglin, the official was taken aback.Though the remarks may have presaged his later stances, Marglin hardly emerged from Harvard a radical?...
...found that three-fifths of students support officially recognizing the program. And even those who remain opposed to the military are far more moderate in their approach than their counterparts of a generation past. During one of its principal demonstrations against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, the Law School’s gay-rights organization confined itself to placing pink soldiers on students’ desks and asking students and faculty to write letters to Congress. When I asked one of the organizers if his group planned...
...policy would strip Harvard of its basis for opposing the military’s presence on campus. Since most liberal politicians—including Obama—have criticized Harvard’s current position, continuing to reject the military after “don’t ask, don’t tell” is repealed would be a public relations disaster, not to mention extremely hypocritical...
...symbols matter, just as Summers and Faust have shown by speaking at the ROTC commissioning ceremonies. If Congress repeals “don’t ask, don’t tell” and Harvard fully recognizes ROTC, the military and academia might finally heal a divide that is now four decades...