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Accepting ROTC on campus as a means for students to fund their education is antithetical to respect for income diversity. Have you taken the opportunity to talk with a low-income Harvard classmate to understand their situation, or have you, like many Harvard students, simply gone off about "lazy welfare recipients" in section, without ever realizing that some welfare recipient may have been sitting next...
Bringing ROTC to campus would enhance the incentive for students who have to work their way through college to opt for the free route. To be bribed by a tantalizing way to pay their ticket through here, and, yes, to take up a greater burden for our nation's defense than is equitable. To turn their time and talent away from other academic and extracurricular pursuits. To have the relief of paying a bill...
...purpose of Harvard's need-blind admissions policy is to ensure that anyone bright enough to get in can attend. Once low-income students get here, the University shouldn't subvert that policy by subtly encouraging them to divert their energies into the one activity on campus that will pay the entire bill. Instead, to take advantage of its diversity, Harvard must do all it can to encourage students to spend less time making ends meet and more time partaking in he campus community...
...sponsor of the original council resolution asserted that, "Those students who are attracted to ROTC are economically disadvantaged." Bringing ROTC to campus for that very reason is aiding and abetting the problem, and hopefully the decision-makers at this University will understand...
Backers of the resolution asking Harvard to enter into negotiations to bring ROTC back to the University after a 20-year hiatus seemed taken aback by students' arguments that the military's policy of barring gays and lesbians from service made ROTC's return to campus objectionable...