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...students were serving their country. Since then, he has questioned the “unorthodox” manner in which Harvard cadets receive funding and has made a personal appeal to the editors of Harvard’s yearbook to include ROTC in this year’s edition. ROTC??originally banished from campus during the Vietnam War—has been barred since 1994 because the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates Harvard’s non-discrimination rules. Currently, Harvard students...
...people knew there was a military presence on campus,” said ROTCA member Brian R. Smith ’02. “ROTCA aims to increase awareness on campus of the military and dispel misconceptions of what the military—not just ROTC??is in general...
...ROTC, Summers emphasized that ROTC??s leadership had no desire to return to Harvard, from which it has been banished from the campus since the early 1970s. Currently the military’s “don’t ask-don’t tell” policy on gays excludes ROTC from campus under the University’s discrimination policy...
...fully qualified to say whether the exigencies of military service require a ban on open gays, and neither are the activists and professors who oppose ROTC??s return. But the proposition isn’t totally implausible. The same sexual tension and concerns about privacy that undermine group cohesion when men and women live together in close quarters might also arise if open gays were fully integrated. Some will respond by reminding us that opponents of racial integration once justified their position by making a similar appeal to the importance of unity. But while the racial prejudice...
...best reason to lift Harvard’s ban is that it would encourage “progressive thinkers to...rise to the pinnacle of the military elite.” This may very well be an argument that can tip Harvard’s scale in favor of ROTC??that once we associate ourselves with the military, its backwardness as an institution will be more easily remedied. It would be better, though, if in debating the issue, Harvard administrators and students could show a bit of humility. Let us shift our focus away from the abundant gifts...