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...University that prides itself on unflinching candor and logical consistency in the eternal pursuit of veritas, Harvard’s bizarre relationship with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) embarrassingly fails to live up to its own standards. Rather than take a decisive and unambiguous stance in the controversy over patriotism and “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the University seeks shelter from accountability in a murky ROTC policy that, in the end, pleases...
...Crimson’s editorial regarding funding for ROTC (“A Principled Stance on ROTC,” Jan. 31) was misguided and uninformed. In the first place, it is not up to “the military” to choose or to change its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. The military carries out the instructions of its civilian and elected commanders, and follows the laws created by political leaders. To blame those in uniform for the policies that they are obliged to enact...
Secondly, the argument that Harvard’s refusal to fund ROTC programs for its students is somehow a principled “moral stance” is asinine. If the University were really concerned about supporting an organization whose principles conflict with its own, it should immediately refuse to do any more business with the Department of Defense: no more applying for grants, no more consulting, no more admitting military personnel to study at the Kennedy School or to be visiting scholars, and no more accepting funding for research. The fact that Harvard chooses to follow...
...staff is right to reaffirm its support for the Harvard undergraduates who participate in ROTC. It is wrong, however, to argue that Harvard should continue not to recognize or directly fund ROTC because it opposes the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...argument boils down to which effect of not having ROTC is larger—the cost to national security or the benefit of appeasing some students’ and Faculty members’ equality-driven sensibilities...