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...10’s opinion piece supporting lifting the ban spots the main obstacle: among faculty members, antipathy for the military is concomitant to the ban. In talks with Harvard students and graduates in last winter, I found that the majority favor lifting the ban on ROTC; they, and I, feel that the ban makes a negative statement about those in the military now, stigmatizing young officers for the sake of trying to combat the stigma that faces gay military personnel...
...personnel there is little or no desire to injure fellow military. The view is that the case is for Congress to decide and is not the fault of young people who are either currently in the military or are committed to join after college. When Harvard refuses to allow ROTC on campus, it sends the message that service to one’s country is not a priority. At its core, Harvard’s ban “blames the warrior” for a policy issue. That is the same mistake the ban originally made in 1968, when...
...policy, military recruiters were temporarily banned from the Law School's campus until a 2006 Supreme Court ruling upheld the Solomon Amendment, which prevents universities from receiving federal funding if they do not allow the military to recruit on campus. Currently the University refuses to officially acknowledge ROTC programs...
According to Paul E. Mawn ’63, chairman of the Advocates for Harvard ROTC, the organization is seeking official recognition for ROTC on campus with or without the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell...
According to Greenwald, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” prevents people from making their own decisions about military service, but Mawn said he believes the university’s policies discriminate against students who want to serve in ROTC...