Word: rotc
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...Faculty’s 1969 decision to remove ROTC from campus came in protest of the Vietnam War, but Harvard soon after allowed students to travel to MIT to participate in the program. In April 1990, the Faculty passed a resolution pledging to end cooperation with ROTC because the military does not allow gays and lesbians to serve openly. Three years later, the Faculty voted to stop paying for MIT to train Harvard’s ROTC students. The Faculty also recommended that the University bar ROTC from holding its commissioning ceremony for Harvard cadets in the Yard...
...administrators suspended all three Faculty decisions, keeping the Harvard-MIT consortium alive. Since 1995, however, the University has not directly provided the money for students who cross-register in MIT’s ROTC program, instead allowing a few anonymous philanthropists to donate the funds needed to keep the arrangement going...
Since taking office, University President Lawrence H. Summers has expressed his support for ROTC on multiple occasions—including a November 2001 appearance in an Army videotape promoting the program...
...opposes the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but Summers in the past has repeatedly criticized the ROTC funding arrangement Harvard has with MIT. Speaking to the Undergraduate Council in 2002, Summers called permitting the anonymous alumni to fund the program a “uncomfortable, back-door policy inconsistent with transparency...
...House measure is the latest development in the effort to bring ROTC back to Harvard’s campus...