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Harvard continues to have a difficult relationship with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)—it supports students who serve but not ROTC itself, due to the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of discrimination against gays. In this context, the recent Undergraduate Council bill that encourages cooperation between professors and military officers to make relevant Harvard courses fulfill military course requirements is a positive step—it will help cadets without undermining the University’s moral position...
Others claim that inconvenience to ROTC cadets is insignificant compared to the fact that gay students cannot serve. But many of Harvard’s cadets may privately disagree with the military??s discriminatory policy, and they should not be punished for a policy which is not theirs to decide...
Harvard maintains no official ties with ROTC because the Faculty has ruled that the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuals violates the University’s stance on discrimination. But the University does allow cadets to participate in a unit at MIT, in a program funded by an independent group of Harvard alumni...
...skepticism can…The skeptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser. Omniscience only knows.” While it is our prerogative to believe in nothing before we believe in something that could be wrong, it is not the military?...
...military??s days in Afghanistan may be numbered, but for many humanitarian workers—including Anne E. Goldfeld, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—the work is just beginning...