Word: return
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Services Committee has forwarded four resolutions for debate Sunday. One would repeal the original resolution, another would make ROTC's return contingent upon the end to its discriminatory policies, a third would deny faculty positions to any military instructors, and the last would mandate that any new campus organizations comply with Harvard's anti-discriminatory policies...
...fifth resolution, introduced by Hornstein and Dana M. Bush '90, would call for an end to anti-gay rules in the military, but would not make ROTC's return contingent upon those changes...
Anyone on the council who bothered to look could have seen, as clear as day, why ROTC cannot return as an extracurricular activity. Anyone who looked a little further could have seen sound reasons why the current University policy exists...
...that ROTC should never return to campus puts the staff in the position of being prognosticators. The staff implies that it 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...
...over, but ROTC should not return ever, under any circumstances...