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...Pilbeam’s directive shocked the campus and marked the first of several new social life regulations instituted this year, including a ban on hard liquor at most House events and new guidelines for parties held by student organizations. While the changes often amounted to only slight shifts, they continually represented both the College’s predominant top-down approach and a decrease in House autonomy and individuality...
...simulating missions and training rather than “swanking it up” in a New York City sublet. Some of these extraordinarily dedicated young people are my friends, and I’m privileged to know them. But because of the culture Harvard has fashioned through its ban of the ROTC, these students’ biggest extracurricular is also their biggest source of separation from the University. If it weren’t for the few vestiges of their commitment that we see—Army fatigues worn every Tuesday or that sleek white Navy uniform?...
...Harvard, it’s been this way for a long time. Our university initially banned ROTC from campus in protest against the Vietnam War in 1970. But that war ended more than three decades ago, and ROTC was never re-instated. Instead, the University has simply shifted the justification of the ban to its protest over the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is profoundly discriminatory, no doubt. Nevertheless...
...political benefit Harvard University derives from banning ROTC is trivial compared with the detrimental effect the ban has on the selfless students involved. Instead of scapegoating a group of students, Harvard ought to make the bold political statement it pretends to be making, by publicly decrying the Government’s discriminatory policy. Maybe the University could even demonstrate its dissatisfaction with the policy by giving back the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds it has received over the last 15 years and refuse to take any more in the future. Instead, by punishing ROTC cadets, Harvard...
...students? We should take it upon ourselves to do what that our University won’t. We shouldn’t accept the excuse that the current ROTC ban is an effective form of protest against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Instead, we should work together with the University to persuade the Government to abandon “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” At the same time, we also have to embrace, respect, and learn from our fellow students...