Word: banning
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Moreover, there are far better ways of expressing the University's opposition to the ban on gays than by restricting the activities of Harvard students. A policy by senior University administrators of publicly and vocally opposing the ban would be at least as effective. This is, after all, the type of response the staff lauds from President James Bryant Conant on the issue of McCarthyism...
...measures for demonstrating opposition when the targeted institution is wholly illegitimate (the former South African government comes to mind). The U.S. military is hardly such an institution. Surely, the staff also sees the vital national need for the armed forces to attract the best possible recruits, despite the gay ban...
Finally, the students who comprise Harvard's ROTC contingent by and large oppose the ban on gays themselves. As members of the military, they are more likely than other officers to demand a liberalization of its policies. Thus, ironically, in the staff's overzealous attempt to do what is right, it would suppress the efforts of those students who dream of joining, and changing, the military...
...staff may be right in its opposition to the ban on gays in the military. They may be wrong...
Today, the ROTC debate has refocused on the military's ban on gays and its band-aid solution for its discrimination, the "don't ask, don't tell" policy...