Word: navales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, proponents of keeping ROTC at Harvard are again bringing up the same misleading arguments that failed to convince anyone four years ago. Back then the campus was flush with indignation that the military had thrown out one of Harvard's own, Naval ROTC officer David E. Carney '89, and demanded that he return $51,000 in ROTC scholarships. Back then, the issue was clearly discrimination...
...lead, of course, set the tone for the entire article; it seemed to be offered as a sensible man's take on the issue (Carde's tagging as "a retired Naval commander" gave him added stature). When I first saw the piece, I accepted it without much thought, and it thoroughly colored my reading...
...honor code could work anywhere, it would be at the nation's military academies. There academic and moral training extends 24 hours a day. The honor code of the Naval Academy is simple: "a midshipman does not lie, cheat, or steal...
...Yoon claims that the student body at Harvard would be effective at dealing with these types of incidents. The prestigious student body of the Naval Academy certainly did prove effective--effective at whitewashing their recent cheating incident...
...Naval Academy cannot make an honor code work, it seems unlikely that "a brief statement about morality, conscience and academic duty to be printed somewhere in the Handbook for Students" along with a short inscription on the inside of each blue book will be an effective substitute for the watchful eye of Mother Harvard...