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Jason M. Scherer ’08, one of the five students honored in the ceremony, said he thought Faust’s remarks struck an appropriate balance, and that some attendees likely did not understand her references to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell...
While Summers was more outspoken than Faust in calling for an increased role of the military on campus, saying that "degree of cleavage between the military and the academy is very detrimental for both," he also criticized "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the harshest of terms, calling it "offensive to human dignity and to principles of nondiscrimination...
Oelstrom, a retired lieutenant general who now directs National Security Programs at the Kennedy School, and the other speakers did not reference either “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” or Faust’s oblique references to it. Instead, the attention was on the new officers—and keeping dry from the pouring rain...
...testified in front of the U.S. Senate in favor of increasing the funding of the National Institutes of Health. And just yesterday, at the Reserve Office Training Core commissioning ceremony, she leveled much-needed criticism against the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although she took some misguided stances, such as her opposition to beer advertising at NCAA tournaments, she rightly avoided taking controversial stands on issues that were unrelated to her position in academia...
...wonder whether they have ever actually seen this president stare down a storm on his own, and whether he has ever, with the privilege of principle and information on his side, overruled the bleak drumbeat of his éminence grise. And, if not, we may be forced to ask if he is instead merely a overgrown boy, coasting along a dark sea—full of bravado, without a care, and with...