Word: rotc
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...presence of the Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)—banished from campus since 1969—has increased suddenly and significantly since the student group Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps Association (ROTCA) held its first meeting of the year yesterday...
...group is four years old, but until recently, has kept a relatively low profile. Now, the events of Sept. 11, along with a recent push to bring ROTC back to Harvard, have prompted the group’s leadership to try to increase campus awareness of the military...
Association officials stressed that while the group carries the ROTC name, its purpose is different from that of the military training program...
Associate Dean David P. Illingworth ’71 said that difference explains why the organization exists despite Harvard’s exclusion of regular ROTC programs on campus...
Equally refreshing is Summers’s emphasis on the necessity for Harvard to support the military. While these statements have not yet been accompanied by any serious effort to end the University’s wrongheaded, identity-politics-driven anti-ROTC policy, it is heartening, to say the least, to hear our president stressing Harvard’s commitment to back “those who fight and are prepared to die” for this country...