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Since this spring, Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon (R-N.Y.) has introduced a series of amendments in four House bills calling for the end of first Department of Defense (DOD) and now civilian research funds to such schools...
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...grants for TT research; and the Department of Defense, through Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has just awarded a University of Alabama researcher the largest TT grant yet: $355,000 to study the effects of the practice on burn patients. "What next for the dod?" asks Scheiber. "Faith healing...
There is, of course, another way. No one is unhappy with the ROTC students' individual participation in the program, only with the DOD bureaucracy's unwillingness to allow homosexual students in the program. Harvard is a powerful institution, with many more substantial ties to the military than the ROTC program. If Harvard really wants to get the DOD policy changed, all it has to do is put its money where its mouth is, that is, behind the position on which we all agree--that the military's policy towards homosexuals must be changed. We can get the policy changed...
Besides the educational services Harvard provides for individuals within the military and the government, Harvard also receives $8.2 million annually from the DOD to conduct military research. If Harvard wants to influence the DOD bureaucracy, it is in a very good position to do so. Instead of jeopardizing a relatively insignificant officer training program (90 percent of whose participants say they would join ROTC at another school if it were shut down), Harvard could declare that it will stop participating in some or all of these research programs if the military does not change its policy by a certain date...