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...ROTC program requires cadets to take a fifth course each semester about military science, leadership or military history in addition to their Harvard classes. It also requires students to participate in a rigorous physical training and drill schedule. To take these courses and to participate in other ROTC activities, Harvard cadets must commute to MIT three to five times a week. Harvard’s cadets will benefit if they can integrate at least some of the required ROTC courses into their normal curriculum. Even if cadets must still take five classes per semester, they could be spared at least...
...only have so much time and energy. Harvard’s cadets deserve anything the University can do to help; it is largely because of past, present and future cadets fighting to protect our freedom that the rest of us have the luxury of pontificating about whether we support ROTC. Students with the courage and bravery to become military officers should not have unnecessary inconveniences imposed on them when they can be reasonably avoided...
...potential downside to the council’s action is that the proposal might be seen as a betrayal of Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy. However, this new policy won’t bring ROTC directly to Harvard—it will continue the arms-length separation between the University and the military. Like the unofficial funding of ROTC through a group of independent alumni, increased cooperation would make Harvard’s relationship with ROTC more feasible for cadets but keep it morally defensible for the University...
Others claim that inconvenience to ROTC cadets is insignificant compared to the fact that gay students cannot serve. But many of Harvard’s cadets may privately disagree with the military’s discriminatory policy, and they should not be punished for a policy which is not theirs to decide...
This resolution is not, and shouldn’t be perceived as, an attack on the beliefs or ideals of non-cadets; it rightly keeps the ROTC program off campus, where it belongs as long as cadets of any sexual orientation cannot serve. Instead, it recognizes and salutes the dedication with which Harvard’s cadets serve their country...