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THIS is a useful paradigm through which to view the Undergraduate Council's decision last Sunday to bring ROTC back to campus. This vote attests to what all the doomsayers were saying about our generation, what few college liberals are willing to admit...
...Eliot House council member support bringing ROTC back to campus because "we're talking a lot about people who need to do ROTC for financial reasons--the militarization of the lower classes...
Many of those supporting a return of ROTC to campus argue that this will ease the way for low-income students who use ROTC scholarships to pay their way through college. But Harvard students already have the option of joining ROTC. Bringing ROTC to campus would go beyond providing opportunity--it would be embracing the organization and accepting the argument that low-income students need to join it. And that is a step Harvard cannot afford to take...
...Undergraduate Council's call to reinstate ROTC on campus violates every tenet of its anti-discrimination policy. Should Harvard University decide to allow ROTC back on campus, it will violate its own anti-discrimination policy as well. Inconveniencing a Harvard student with traveling to MIT--in council terms, known as "discrimination against the economically disadvantaged"--justifies this flagrant disrespect for all minority groups on campus...
...some ROTC members and council representatives, patriotism means supporting U.S. foreign and military policy. But for others, and for the Constitution ROTC claims to defend, patriotism also means the protection of minority rights. By endorsing the presence of ROTC on campus, the council is denying an enormous portion of Harvard students those rights...