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Third, there has been a widespread implication that people choose to participate in ROTC only for financial reasons. This is simply untrue. While ROTC scholarships are certainly an important avenue for students from from lower- and middle-income families, the desire to serve one's country comes before the need for financial aid in most cases. Serving as an officer in the military has been a desired and respected profession throughout the world for hundreds of years. To imply that the only reason one would choose to do ROTC is for money is an affront to the values and beliefs...
Some things have also changed for the worse. Several alumni expressed concern about the shrinking number of Harvard students from who come from lower-income Black families and attributed alterations in the Harvard Black community to this shift...
Furthermore, lower-income students who did come to Harvard faced additional pressures. Green said she came from a background that made coming through Harvard difficult. Her father attended school through eighth grade, and her mother dropped out to marry him. Her sister went to Kentucky State and earned a Masters degree, but Green was the first in her family to go to a prestigious Ivy League school and to attend law school...
ROTC and the U.S. military discriminate on the basis of race. Minorities vying for leadership in the ROTC programs are routinely given low-level jobs and systematically kept in the lower rungs of the military hierarchy...
Lashman testified that the state budget as drafted by the state House of Representatives drastically cuts local aid. The projected budget for cities throughout Massachusetts is $34 million lower than the current budget, he said...