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Currently, Harvard does not recognize ROTC for what the administration considers to be discriminatory policies, and the Dems and Republicans have joined in past years to campaign for ROTC??s return...
Although the number of Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students on college campuses is increasing nationwide, enrollment in Harvard’s ROTC??which has long had a contentious relationship with the University—has remained flat. Most of the 273 colleges and universities officially associated with ROTC have reported growth in their Army programs this year, according to the Associated Press. Air Force ROTC Captain Joseph P. Adelmann, an instructor in aerospace studies at MIT, said that the increases may be due to the draw of ROTC scholarships and the current state...
...poll could easily have distinguished between absolute opposition to ROTC??s official recognition and principled conditional support by adding a fourth option: “Yes, I support official recognition, but only after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” But the question and available responses were likely framed under the false assumption that no such distinction exists. Shortly before the poll’s release, Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, president emeritus of the HRC, denied the claim that DADT constituted legitimate grounds for Harvard?...
...critics of the poll said that none of the advocates of ROTC??s recognition have made public gestures to fully address the issue of non-discrimination and officially condemn the DADT policy, saying that without openly condemning DADT, only one side of the issue is actually being examined...
...Harvard Republican Club sponsored the campaign, which coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the ROTC??s 1969 expulsion from campus...