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This week, a panel of Harvard ROTC students and a student protest against Harvard’s refusal to officially recognize ROTC reminded the campus of Harvard’s troubled relationship with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. During the Vietnam War, Harvard banned ROTC from campus and continues to impede student participation because of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy enacted in 1993. Because openly gay and lesbian students are excluded from ROTC under this policy, the University says that its refusal...
...Panel: "Office of Career Services: Connecting Students with Information and Opportunities" (Science Center B) — The event description starts most inauspiciously with this sentence: "Are you wondering what you might do next summer?" Look Harvard, these prefrosh are just looking for a good time. But you just took them into uncharted territory and then spanked their already future-oriented complexes into high gear. "Have you begun to think about what you might explore as possible career paths after graduation?" You don't have to tell Harvard students to worry prematurely—they'll do it fine themselves...
...Panel: "What It's Like to be a Harvard Freshman" (Science Center B) — We already have the answer for you: perpetually confused, periodically drunk, consistently disillusioned...
...Harvard (Sever 102) — Do you ever "[w]onder what the Harvard sex scene is really like?" Or, better yet, "if it exists?" Come get the sobering answer at this panel discussion manned by some of the biggest groups on campus that work with gender/sexuality issues. If there's anything that might deter hedonistic prefrosh from choosing Harvard, it might be this...
Mohler's view is, to a certain extent, shared by Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville, who leads an ad hoc panel of U.S. Catholic bishops set up to fight gay marriage. He too sees a potential future when a greater acceptance of homosexuality leads to pressure on churches to conform, and even to change their teachings. "There are grave threats that decisions by the courts, legislative actions or regulations could erode religious freedom," Kurtz tells TIME. "With regard to marriage, this implicates the right of Catholics to practice our beliefs. Here we are talking about the bedrock of society...