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...Just by saying we don't want ROTC on our campus is not adding constructively to the argument. It's casting it aside in the shadows," he says. "This debate is a great thing that a lot can be achieved from...
Laura C. Moore, MIT class of 1991, was a ROTC midshipman as an undergraduate and served on active duty. Moore says she never came out about her bisexuality while she was serving but saw many cases of discrimination against other recruits...
...ROTC unit at MIT had students from Harvard, MIT, Wellesley, and Tufts - a pretty enlightened and educated bunch of people," she says. "Yet when the topic came to gays in the military, the level of anger and closed-mindedness I saw was shocking...
Moore says that while she was in ROTC, there was a push by some Harvard midshipmen to bring the program back to campus. She remembers talking about the discrimination issue with one of the students behind the campaign: "He said that the military shouldn't have to accept people who had something wrong with them, whether they were gay or had a leg missing, or whatever--his words...
...There weren't any openly gay people in ROTC to discriminate against, but the atmosphere was certainly homophobic," she adds, saying that among midshipmen, the word "fag" was considered to be the ultimate insult...