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Following student demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1969, administrators banned ROTC from campus. (Harvard students have participated in ROTC through MIT since the early 1970s...
...Policy.” “We’re proud to count him among our graduates,” said Stock. “I’m delighted he’s going to be here.” After Harvard, Bernanke earned his Ph.D. at MIT, where he specialized in the monetary origins of the Great Depression. At a 2002 celebration for the economist Milton Friedman—who had long blamed poor monetary policy for exacerbating the Depression—Bernanke famously said, “Regarding the Great Depression, you are right...
...year, the Undergraduate Council passed “Supporting ROTC,” a jointly-proposed bill by the Harvard Republicans and Democrats. The bill aims to allow the ROTC courses Harvard students take at MIT to be printed on their school transcripts. Furthermore, it recommends that Harvard add that it is “proud” of the ROTC students’ service to the country in its description of the organization in the Student’s Handbook. Yet while this measure is a step in the right direction, it doesn’t go nearly...
...Students in ROTC have to wake up at six in the morning for Physical Training. They cross-register for an extra class at MIT which, UC legislation aside, still doesn’t show up on their transcripts. Many spend their summers away simulating missions and training rather than “swanking it up” in a New York City sublet. Some of these extraordinarily dedicated young people are my friends, and I’m privileged to know them. But because of the culture Harvard has fashioned through its ban of the ROTC, these students?...
...place overall. The second freshman eight was awarded the bronze medal after finishing behind Navy and Cornell in its Grand Final.Both the varsity eight and JV eight took fourth in their opening heats. The varsity crew ended up taking second behind Navy in the Petite Final, battling Penn and MIT for the silver, while the JV eight won its Petite Final. “We would obviously have liked to do better, but I think it’s unfair to chalk up a whole season’s worth of work into one six-minute piece...