Word: optioned
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...Rudenstine plan ends direct University subsidies of the MIT-based ROTC program, thus meeting the strict requirements of the Harvard non-discrimination policy. At the same time, to keep the ROTC option open for students, Rudenstine has allowed several University alumni to make voluntary, supposedly unsolicited contributions to cover the costs. Provided there is no difficulty in keeping the funds coming, the effect of the plan should be negligible on current and future ROTC students...
While Rudenstine appeared to have several options in order to cut those ties, he was in fact quite constrained. One option was to require ROTC students themselves to foot the bill. Department of Defense regulations prohibit any such requirement, however...
...more than just one set of rights involved. The right of homosexual students to serve is an important right and one we firmly support. But, as the Verba report recognized, to end the availability of ROTC altogether would infringe on the rights of those students interested in the military option...
Rudenstine, in his report, said his decision "comes as close to achieving the committee's objectives as I believe we practicably can, without terminating the ROTC option altogether...
...option raised in the meeting was to include house committee funding on student term bills in the same way that the council gets money, Lansky said...