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Moreover, the military's broader values are antithetical to those of the Harvard 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...
Today's Xinhua report was significant because it did not accuse the students of calling for the overthrow of the government. Most students say they only want the leaders to do their job better and respect human rights...
...knows what ROTC will agree to in the future. No one, including current ROTC leaders, can say what ROTC policy will be in future years. In addition, the staff's assertion that the military is the most inflexible arm of the government does not hold water, at least with respect to ROTC. ROTC has reached extremely innovative and flexible arrangements with colleges which have had qualms about outside interference with their curricula...
PROBABLY the most troubling aspect of the council's proposal to bring ROTC back on campus is that it violates its own constitution, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. In that one respect, at least, the staff editorial is right on target...
...back to campus ignore the fact that it is, in effect, already here. Harvard already has "its hands dirty," since it allows students to participate in the program and, in fact, subsidizes MIT for teaching them. Thus, the University is currently getting a free ride off MIT in this respect...