Word: rotc
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Fred Fantini, a member of the Cambridge School Committee, said he voted against the decision to ban recruiting in 1991, and would vote for a ROTC program there if it were a possibility...
...Officer Training Corps (ROTC) facilities on campus—said the legislation was specifically targeted at Harvard, which banished ROTC from campus 35 years...
When the House debated the measure in March, Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., a former member of the Harvard Business School faculty and co-sponsor of the bill, said the legislation “squarely addresses the scandal of Harvard University and other schools banishing ROTC and military recruiters from campus, while cashing Uncle Sam’s checks for billions of taxpayer dollars each year...
Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, said this spring that the military has not requested permission to set up a ROTC station on campus. Harvard students currently attend ROTC at MIT, along with students from several area colleges...
When the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to send ROTC packing in 1969, professors railed against the military’s handling of the Vietnam War. Today, the fight over military recruiting on campus centers on the armed forces’ controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which requires the discharge of openly gay and lesbian service members...