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...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...
...errors of fact have appeared in recent issues of The Crimson concerning Harvard's recent decision to enter into an agreement with NROTC...
DEAN SPENCE made the correct decision last week to accede to a Navy demand that Harvard sign an agreement with Navy ROTC. The controversy centered around the lack of a written agreement between Harvard and NROTC concerning the status of the three dozen or so Harvard undergraduates who are part of the MIT NROTC detachment. The "new" agreement is not really new at all; it is merely a recognition of the cross-town arrangement which began in 1976, and an acknowledgement that those ROTC courses recognized as credit-worthy by MIT should be accorded the same treatment by Harvard...
Harvard does not lose anything because of this agreement, and Harvard's ROTC officer candidates gain both moral and material satisfaction. There was the distinct possibility that the NROTC cross-town arrangement would have been terminated starting with next year's freshmen if Spence had refused to sign, and the future of the other ROTC arrangement might have been cast into doubt as well. The reconciliation takes out of limbo those high school seniors who have already won NROTC scholarships and wish to attend Harvard. Furthermore, the option to receive credit for those NROTC courses recognized in MIT's catalogue...