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While the military may have a legal right to recruit on campuses receiving federal funding--of which Harvard receives a significant amount, Dunphy said--Harvard has developed a reputation for being inhospitable toward the military and its traditional recruitment programs like the Army's Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC...
...University disbanded its ROTC detachment during the 1960s. Then, in 1993, the Faculty Council voted to stop paying MIT for including Harvard students in its ROTC program in protest of the military's "don't ask don't tell" policies toward gays...
...University does not give students academic credit for their ROTC training, and administrators rejected an Undergraduate Council proposal two years ago to allow ROTC to return to Harvard...
Aaliyah Williams '01 said, "I really don't think people would be at Harvard if they wanted to be in the military. Certainly some people are in ROTC, but this just doesn't seem like a fruitful place for recruitment...
Although Harvard students are underrepresented in ROTC compared to many other local schools, both the commander and vice-commander of the local Air Force ROTC unit based at MIT are Harvard students. ROTC members defended the Navy's direct solicitation of students...