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Summers said the military does not wish to reestablish an ROTC unit at Harvard, which sponsored one until the anti-war atmosphere of the ’60s and ’70s forced the program off-campus, because it has adopted a “cluster concept” in which one site serves for a number of schools...
...first-ever newsletter this fall, The Advocates for Harvard ROTC, which numbers among its supporters former Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger ’38 as well as about 1000 alumni, praised Summers as someone who “pierced the thirty-year dark cloud of disdain and intolerance that enveloped Harvard ROTC...
Despite his support of patriotism and military service, neither Summers nor the Faculty Council has indicated whether the University is considering changing its policy in regard to ROTC funding, a move that Clayman said would help legitimize the group...
...We’re out in limbo,” he said. “If Harvard officially recognized the curriculum of ROTC, they’d make an unusual contribution to it. The richness of the resources [of Harvard] would be available to the students...
Both Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox ’59 and Professor of Psychology Marc Hauser, a council member, said that they were unaware of any movement among council members to rework the current legislation that prohibits Harvard from funding ROTC directly...