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...Lee’s credit, she has said she intends to focus on political issues that relate to Harvard—ROTC, grade inflation and the Summers/West controversy, to name a few. But addresssing those issues risks diluting the council’s power by alienating both students and administrators, and it remains unlikely that the council would be able to make a significant difference. Worse, addressing these controversial issues would jeopardize the council’s ability to make tangible improvements in the quality of life of undergraduates. Part of Gusmorino’s success lay in the trust...
While tabling in front of the Science Center earlier this year with the Harvard Democrats and the Harvard Republicans, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets offered students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to sign Holiday Cards to be sent to servicemen and women overseas. Yet even this bi-partisan and non-politically charged event saw Harvard cadets meet with irrational and often frighteningly humorous chides. The most notable came from a woman who dashed by and yelled “fascists!” at the uniformed students. It seemed comical at the time, and I simply smiled, waved...
...convinced the fascist parallel is prevalent among enlightened citizens, but certainly a large distrust and skepticism of the U.S. military still pervades the campus. This distrust was the motivation for ROTC cadets and its supporters to form a club whose main objective is to dispel the ignorance and false innuendo that hurts our image and unfairly blames cadets for issues we have little to do with. The Harvard ROTC Association (HROTCA), aims to “bridge the gap” between the Harvard community and the military. We want to accomplish this goal through education, compromise and friendship, hoping...
Cadets are continually disheartened by the persistent anti-ROTC sentiment on Harvard’s campus. This sentiment, of course, is largely due to memories of the Vietnam War and the “Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t harass, don’t pursue” policy that the military was mandated to implement in the mid-90s. HROTCA recognizes these points of contention and strives to remind students and faculty that the military itself is not an autonomous branch of government but is subordinate to the wishes...
Contrary to popular opinion, the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy did not result from the scheming of discriminatory military brass, and certainly did not intend to stymie Harvard cadets from seeking an education. Yet, ROTC is counter-intuitively banned from campus and directly associated with the policy’s creation and implementation. Does the ban make any sense? Civilian government, the very people we vote for, shoulders the responsibility for the policy, but groups and events associated with our government here on campus don’t seem...