Word: militaryã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...fundamentally about trade-offs; in economic terms, do the benefits outweigh the costs? The ROTC debate is no different. The question to ask, therefore, is do the benefits of encouraging the brightest students of our generation to have a career in the military outweigh the unmistakable unfairness of the military??s anti-gay bias? I think that the answer...
...help. The student populations at elite schools such as Harvard are overwhelmingly civil libertarian-minded and supportive of equal treatment of gays in the military. Rather than encouraging these people to join the military and progress through its ranks, Harvard stifles them. The best way to change the military??s policy is not a boycott that only increases the proportion of military policy-makers who advocate the status quo, but rather the encouragement of progressive thinkers to join and rise to the pinnacle of the military elite. After all, one of the foremost advocates of the softening...
...University ended its financial support of ROTC because of the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell policy...
...really just like to see an open dialogue on the issue,” Bash said. The debate, he said, should include traditional advocates of ROTC as well as groups like the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Association (BGLTSA) who have in the past opposed the U.S. military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...anything can be controversial, it is ROTC and the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding homosexuals...