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...debate over ROTC at Harvard dates back to 1969. In that year, during the height of the Vietnam War, a group of Harvard students and faculty protested ROTC's presence on campus because of its ties to the military. As a result, ROTC was pushed off campus, and Harvard students who wanted to participate in it commuted...
...this decade, the protests shifted to different grounds. Students and faculty alike lamented the military's policy on homosexuals, and a 1990 report by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences called on the administration to sever ties with the ROTC program because it discriminated against gays and lesbians...
...compromise approved last year fully and fairly brought an end to the ROTC debate. The Harvard Corporation approved a new relationship between the University and ROTC that effectively ended Harvard's financial ties to the program by appointing independent alumni to administer funding...
...Harvard has already separated itself from the funding for ROTC, and ROTC students have long gone to MIT for their training. Individual ROTC members should not be punished further because of their group membership alone. Having the commissioning ceremony on campus is an appropriate memorial to the hard work the cadets have done over four years. The ceremony does not amount to an endorsement of the program's discrimination...
...move the ceremony off campus would be to deprive the ROTC participants of an honor they have rightfully earned. We urge Dean Lewis to veto the proposal in order to maintain the spirit of the original compromise...