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...focus of the fight, on a growing number of campuses, is the Reserve Officers Training Corpe (ROTC), which was kicked off most of the Ivy League campuses (or made an extracurricular activity) during the antiwar protests of the 1960s. The Yale Political Union concluded this fall that the university ought to bring ROTC back to campus, a move some students said would help the school live up to its motto: "For God, For Country, and For Yale." While many of the objections are based on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays...
...conduct a poll at all four of the university's undergraduate colleges on whether to bring back the military officer training program that was booted from campus in 1969 at the height of anti-Vietnam furor. While students voted 54% to 46% to keep the ban in place, ROTC advocates say the tenor of the debate was more revealing than the ultimate result. Take Learned Foote, for example, a sophomore who is gay but supports ROTC as a way to bridge the gap between civil and military service. "If you push [the military] off of campus and wait for others...
...Harvard graduate, Moulton addressed the unique position in which he and Harvard ROTC recruits are placed...
Isaiah T. Peterson ’12, who is in Air Force ROTC, said the panel gave him a sense of what serving in the military is really like...
...caption of the photograph associated with this article stated incorrectly that this event was sponsored by the group Advocates for Harvard ROTC. In fact, as the article itself makes clear, the event was sponsored by the Harvard ROTC Association...