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...those involved besides paying for tuition and denies the individuality and even humanity of officer candidates. His insinuation that ROTC students would not have attended Harvard had they not been involved in the ROTC program (receiving the scholarship) is generally true for me, but for a reason far different than any he mentions. If Harvard did not have a ROTC program, I would have attended the Naval Academy. I am not in the program for the money but for the opportunity to serve and defend my country. I understand that not everyone believes that the military is the right means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

...everyone believes that the military is the right means for such an end, and many here at Harvard see such attitudes as loyalty and patriotism as hackneyed, but I do not feel that they should have the right to discriminate against me as a student simply because my beliefs differ from theirs. Should I have to start checking out the attitude a professor has towards ROTC before taking a class? How would a professor such as Mr. Wylie react if I for some reason wore my uniform to class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of ROTC | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activites, I beg to differ. I am on the BSA's Executive Board and I know that we only have one committee specially designated for social activities. If people like Mr. Hsia would bother to look at the total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Self-Segregation | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activities, I beg to differ. I am on the BSA's Executive Board and I know that we only have one committee specially designated for social activities. If people like Mr. Hsia would bother to look at the total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities of the BSA. For example, did Mr. Hsia notice that, during the first weekend of February, the BSA sponsored the Inter Collegiate Conference (ICC), in which Black students from Ivy League and Boston area schools came...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Minorities | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

...explicitly call it opposition. I give full support to the general direction of perestroika, to the country's foreign policy and so on. But I have my own views on matters of political tactics that differ slightly from , the position of the official leadership. In this respect, there is a certain tension in our relationship, but I insist on certain limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with BORIS YELTSIN: One Bear Of a Soviet Politician: | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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