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...College, the situation is remarkably similar, yet the outcome has been far different. Since 1995, Harvard students who have traveled to MIT to participate in ROTC have had their expenses covered by alumni donations, independent of the University. President Lawrence H. Summers, who has made several commendable and courageous overtures to ROTC, has called this arrangement “uncomfortable” and “unorthodox”—but so far he has not changed...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) rule prohibits any “financial or other direct support” of the Harvard students who travel to MIT to participate in ROTC, and the ROTC courses they take there do not count for credit...
Former cadet Brian R. Smith ’02 and Col. John Kuconis, who commanded the Air Force ROTC detachment at MIT before retiring this summer, led the effort to win ROTC headquarters’ approval of Government 1730, “War and Politics” to fulfill the Air Force’s sophomore military history requirement...
...Force had already approved two MIT courses, one for a senior-year ROTC requirement on national security policy and one for a junior-year requirement on leadership and management, to substitute for officer-taught courses. Harvard cadets can earn joint credit for those two courses because the University has a cross-registration agreement with MIT...
...about, or how the Silicon Valley model applies to the vastly different world of life sciences. But as the public’s confidence in corporations continues to fall with the Dow, the dream of Biotech Valley, Boston seems more and more like a project Harvard should leave to MIT...