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Afterwards, a bill was introduced calling for increased support of lesbians on campus that was intended to mock a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) bill passed last month that asked for more support of ROTC cadets...
...ROTC bill was opposed by students who saw the bill as a tacit endorsement of the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals...
...even denounce the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. At the same time, the council apparently cannot grasp how the bill directly violates its own principles of non-discrimination and the Harvard wide policies that protect students of all minority status. By recommending that ROTC have recruiting privileges through the Office of Career Services, the bill endorses the practice of discriminatory recruiting on-campus. By recommending that Harvard adopt administrative oversight with the ROTC alumni fund, the bill asks that the University endorse the discriminatory disbursement of monies under Harvard's name. Both these activities can only...
...course, cadets deserve respectful treatment and access to their program. A ROTC shuttle service would have been acceptable, as would have been acceptable, as would have more of those "students service" initiatives that the council loves to extol. But the bill's supporters do not seem interested in negotiating ways of supporting cadets that do not blatantly endorse homophobic activities at the college...
...unacceptable on all terms. A non-discrimination policy that does not set limits on a discriminatory organization, even one committed to the defense of the nation, is like a drag queen without her spikes. Many have argued that the existing policy privileges the LGBT community, at the expense of ROTC, committing "ideological" discrimination. Quite the contrary. Nondiscrimination policies protect specific classes of people for good reason: to prevent oppression. Nondiscrimination policies require the ethical courage to limit organizations which, no matter how noble we imagine them to be on other fronts, violate the principles of our community...