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...President Faust’s behalf, did not specify what her specific role in the ceremony will be, but told The Crimson that President Faust would be “part of the program.” The ROTC program, which serves Harvard students in association with the battalion at nearby MIT, is a worthy one, and therefore President Faust should be commended for choosing to take part in the ceremony. The members of Harvard’s undergraduate community who take part in ROTC are admirable members of our College, who face service after graduation bravely and steadfastly. Particularly...
...protests. ROTC remains banished due to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which Harvard considers discriminatory, and is not deemed an official Harvard organization. Harvard students involved with ROTC conduct their exercises with a battalion at MIT. Last year, neither Faust, who had not yet taken office, nor then-Interim President Derek C. Bok attended the ceremony. Their absence drew criticism from student groups at Harvard and from the Wall Street Journal. A June 8, 2007 editorial in the Journal wrote that ROTC has been...
...Daniel C. Burbank provided a rare glimpse into life in space. The Coast Guard captain spoke about the space program and showed photos and videos of mankind’s most distinguished zero-gravity job, in a talk held by the Harvard College Aviation Club and the Paul Revere Battalion of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). “I still have to pinch myself in the morning. I can’t believe all I’ve done is real,” Burbank said. Captain David M. Gowel, a training officer in the ROTC...
...days the viet cong fired at Lieut. General Robert Haldane and his battalion from within the troops' own lines--then seemed to vanish in open terrain. After scouring the battlefield near Saigon, a soldier stumbled on an elaborately camouflaged trapdoor. Haldane's team had found the now infamous Cu Chi tunnels, a maze that at its peak went on for 155 miles (250 km) and now draws thousands of tourists every year. Haldane, who won a Silver Star for helping wounded GIs amid the sniping...
...said that one request came from a civil affairs battalion that had entered a Sunni area and found crowds of children armed with toy AK-47s. Insurgents had disbanded the soccer leagues, trashed soccer fields, and confiscated soccer balls, which they replaced with the toy rifles...