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...Harvard cadets receive funding and has made a personal appeal to the editors of Harvard’s yearbook to include ROTC in this year’s edition. ROTC—originally banished from campus during the Vietnam War—has been barred since 1994 because the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates Harvard’s non-discrimination rules. Currently, Harvard students who wish to participate in ROTC must travel to MIT, but their costs are paid in part by alumni donations...
...don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in favor of a more enlightened stance toward gays. If the policy changes, the University should not hesitate to offer ROTC the opportunity to return to campus. Summers should realize that such a change in the military??s policy—and not a change in Harvard’s—is the best way to resolve the “uncomfortable” relationship between Harvard and ROTC...
Although Harvard allows students to travel to MIT, which provides an ROTC unit for Tufts and Wellesley as well, it does not officially fund the costs associated with the program because of a Faculty decision regarding the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, a policy Summers said many might consider discriminatory. Instead, the University requested that alumni fund the program without going through official channels...
...choose to join ROTC through its presence at MIT. The work of protecting our nation has become even more urgent in the past two months, and those who serve in the military deserve our praise and our thanks. There is a widespread perception that Harvard looks down upon the military??media reports often contrasted Summers’ comments with the reputation the student body has gained since the violent anti-war protests during the Vietnam era. But our disagreement with the military??s policy on homosexuals stems from a desire to improve the military...
...feel like a lot of people knew there was a military presence on campus,” said ROTCA member Brian R. Smith ’02. “ROTCA aims to increase awareness on campus of the military and dispel misconceptions of what the military??not just ROTC—is in general...