Word: nrotc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community. According to the Handbook for Students, Harvard aspires to be a "community idealiy characterized by free expression, free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others and openness to constructive change." After four years of contact with the Navy, I cannot fairly say that the NROTC program espouses those values. Any endorsement of a group without similar values weakens Harvard's claims to those defining characteristics...
...response to your editorial of October 2, 1986, denouncing MIT-NROTC [Naval ROTC at MIT which includes Harvard students] and the military in general for its exclusion of students infected by the AIDS virus from officer training, I feel compelled to point out that while this policy may seem discriminatory to a particular campus interest group, it is certainly consistent with the military regulations which exclude from active duty anyone suffering from a variety of ailments ranging from cancer to high blood pressure. On the contrary, the Navy's concern is, understandably, economic...
...Each NROTC scholarship student costs the government more than $70,000 in tuition and training. Consequently, the Navy wants to choose personnel that have a maximal chance of surviving the four-year commitment. AIDS-infected students are not only a high risk statistically, but potentially infectious. While some scientists in some labs don't feel this is true, their arguments don't sell too well in the sardine can-like enlisted berthing compartments of any U.S. Navy vessel...
...addition, the editors showed their ignorance of our situation by calling for a continuation of Harvard's "banishment" of ROTC. In fact, since Harvard officials ingraciously threw NROTC off campus in 1973, the Navy hasn't shown the least interest in renewing this arrangement. Christiana B. Huffaker '87 MIT-NROTC Battalion Executive Officer Stephen J. Smith '87 MIT-NROTC Battalion Operations Officer
...errors of fact have appeared in recent issues of The Crimson concerning Harvard's recent decision to enter into an agreement with NROTC...