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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...
Harvard’s current policy stems from a Faculty Council vote in 1994 that Harvard money should not be used to support students who participate in ROTC at MIT, former vice president for alumni affairs and development Fred Glimp said. The costs of the program are administrative and total about $130,000 to $160,000 a year, Glimp said...
...University has pursued funding arrangements that are unorthodox to cover expenses at MIT.” He added that “It’s a compromise that is uncomfortable but resolves the matter so students can pursue ROTC activities...
...Harvard has had lots of interchange with the units at MIT,” he said. “The commissioning ceremonies for Harvard people in ROTC occur here at Harvard. It’s not as if ROTC is banned from Harvard...
Harvard has recently tenured two professors, who will begin teaching in the spring. Charles Langmuir, 51, of Columbia University, will join the department of earth and planetary sciences. Vahid Tarokh, from MIT, will join the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences...