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What a marvelous gift for our conservative, outspoken defense secretary. Harvard’s refusal to allow ROTC units to operate on campus has long been a burr under the military’s saddle, but the Solomon Amendment gives Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld the leverage to remove...
...difficult to say why Harvard’s ROTC policy has not yet been found in violation of the Solomon Amendment. Associate Dean David P. Illingworth ’71 suggests the reason is that Harvard students are able to ride the T to Kendall Square. “It would appear that the College is in compliance with the Solomon Amendment,” he writes in an e-mail. “Harvard students have full access to ROTC at MIT and take advantage of that opportunity...
...opportunities afforded through MIT’s ROTC program do not change the fact that official University policy prohibits the military from “maintaining, establishing or operating” an ROTC unit on the Harvard campus. The policy is, prima facie, a violation of the Solomon Amendment, and as such it is vulnerable to assault from the Pentagon...
...While Congress occasionally earmarks grants for particular universities, in most cases the defense department has discretion to award these grants where it pleases. At a very minimum the department could lay down, as a condition for future grants, that a ticker-tape parade through Harvard Yard be held for ROTC, in honor of its return to campus as an official student organization. If necessary, it would not be difficult to drum up support for a Congressional resolution backing this policy...
...hypocrisy of Harvard’s ROTC position, on the other hand, reduces the University administration and its myrmidons to a kind of prostitution. They are perfectly willing to accept millions of dollars from, and to do research for, the very institution whose policies they brand immoral and discriminatory...