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...latest news, but a family doctor in a Chicago suburb cancels her subscription to the New York Times because the relentless coverage of fear and threats was taking a toll on her. Peace Corps applications are up 72% in San Francisco, even as Harvard alums fight to restore ROTC, and 100 times as many Smith College students turn out to meet the CIA recruiter as did a decade ago. People decide to get in shape in case they have to run down 50 flights of stairs, while others abandon their diets because fudge is a great antidepressant...
Equally refreshing is Summers’s emphasis on the necessity for Harvard to support the military. While these statements have not yet been accompanied by any serious effort to end the University’s wrongheaded, identity-politics-driven anti-ROTC policy, it is heartening, to say the least, to hear our president stressing Harvard’s commitment to back “those who fight and are prepared to die” for this country...
...ROTC, Summers emphasized that ROTC’s leadership had no desire to return to Harvard, from which it has been banished from the campus since the early 1970s. Currently the military’s “don’t ask-don’t tell” policy on gays excludes ROTC from campus under the University’s discrimination policy...
...Summers noted that he has been presented with a variety of viewpoints on the school’s fiscal ties to the program. Currently the school does not in any way subsidize ROTC and is entirely separated from its operation financially...
While he declined to say whether he was reconsidering this and other ROTC related policies, Summers repeated the University’s moral commitment to support the armed services...