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University President Lawrence H. Summers raised questions about Harvard’s “uncomfortable” and “unorthodox” funding support for students in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) in a study break at Winthrop House Wednesday night...
Although Harvard allows students to travel to MIT, which provides an ROTC unit for Tufts and Wellesley as well, it does not officially fund the costs associated with the program because of a Faculty decision regarding the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, a policy Summers said many might consider discriminatory. Instead, the University requested that alumni fund the program without going through official channels...
...opposed to people discussing it, but I don’t think anyone should bring forward a piece of legislation to the UC without undertaking substantial research in preparing it—especially for an issue as complicated as ROTC at Harvard,” he says...
Over the course of the semester, the council—rarely locked in debate or controversy—issued more reports on student issues than any previous council. In October, the group came close to a formal debate over the presence of the Reserve Officers Training Corps’ (ROTC) presence on campus, but Gusmorino quashed any possibility that a bill would be written for a floor debate, saying that the time spent on debate would likely be contentious and meaningless...
...We’ve been silent on the living wage, on ROTC, even on Afghanistan,” he said...