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Official recognition for ROTC could help facilitate transfer of course credit for ROTC classes taken at MIT, allow financial support from Harvard for cross-registration, and mean the removal of language in the student handbook that says military and ROTC policies excluding openly gay people are “inconsistent with Harvard’s values...
Shawna L. Sinnott ’10, a Marine ROTC midshipman, said she believed the results showed that the current generation is better able to distinguish individual ROTC members from the political issue of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—the controversial policy that bars openly gay individuals from serving in the armed forces...
...poll follows a week-long campaign in April to gain recognition for ROTC on campus, with Motley noting that a similar poll on Columbia’s campus led to full-scale dialogue between students and faculty members on the policy...
Motley said that the policy’s exclusion from the GOP platform has prohibited the HRC from taking an official position on DADT, while Sinnott said that ROTC cadets find themselves bound by military free speech policies that require them to be “apolitical...
...Scholarship eligibility at Harvard College is entirely need-based and is determined by the Committee on Financial Aid after careful review of a student’s available financial resources, including family income and assets and other outside sources of assistance. If the receipt of ROTC or any other source of outside scholarship assistance meets a student’s full need, there is no remaining eligibility for Harvard scholarship assistance. However, if the ROTC or other source of outside funding does not fully meet a student’s need, then Harvard scholarship assistance is awarded...