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...West Germans believe superpower arms talks should be attempted on a broad scale because of the current disarmament climate in Moscow...
...that ROTC should never return to campus puts the staff in the position of being prognosticators. The staff implies that it knows what ROTC will agree to in the future. No one, including current ROTC leaders, can say what ROTC policy will be in future years. In addition, the staff's assertion that the military is the most inflexible arm of the government does not hold water, at least with respect to ROTC. ROTC has reached extremely innovative and flexible arrangements with colleges which have had qualms about outside interference with their curricula...
...council's biggest mistake was its failure to inform the student body of its impending vote. The current campus debate, raging in dining halls and dorm rooms, should have contributed to the decision, rather than come after the fact. When the council discussed the finals club resolution earlier this fall, it postered the campus announcing the meeting; ROTC has proven to be as controversial, and students should have been given as much advanced warning...
However, the issue of homophobia in the military is not all that's at stake here. After all, the council's vaguely-worded constitution also prohibits what it terms "economic discrimination." And surely the current arrangement constitutes a violation of this principle: Harvard students enrolled in the Army branch of the ROTC program receive only 80 percent of the aid that their counterparts at MIT and other campuses do, and receive this aid for only three years instead of the full four...
ROTC provides a badly-needed financial option for many middle- and lower-income students who would rather not be saddled with massive debt after graduation. Harvard's current aloof attitude is both duplicitous and insulting to students involved in the ROTC program and to all those highly-regarded universities that allow ROTC on campus...