Word: rotc
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...wake of the infamous University Hall take-over in 1969, anti-war student protestors and sympathetic Faculty members pressured the University to sever its ties with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). These days, ROTC classes are banned for much a different reason--Harvard views an implicit support of the military's current "don't ask, don't tell policy" as a violation of the University's anti-discrimination policies...
...this light, it seems contradictory that while Harvard students are more willing to embrace gay rights than the nation as a whole, there is strong support to bring ROTC back. According to a recent poll by The Crimson, 80 percent of students support gay marriage; 51 percent support the return of ROTC, with only 20 percent opposed...