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...alone in thinking there is something distasteful about the Faculty's attitude toward the Reserve Officers Training Corps? If participation in the program is wrong, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should have the courage of its convictions: condemn ROTC and make clear to applicants that they cannot participate if they choose Harvard...
...ROTC's advantages (be they civic or selfishly pecuniary) outweigh its faults then, having exposed the faults, participate fully in the program. The spectacle of this community trying to have its cake and eat it too reveals a sophistry wholly at odds with our central purpose, the pursuit of truth. "Trimming" is as demeaning to an institution as it is to an individual. --E. L. Pattullo
Knowles has had little time lately to attend to routine matters. He's been busy with President Neil L. Rudenstine's surprise leave of absence last November, the demands of a University-wide capital campaign and professors' outrage over changes to their benefits and a proposed ROTC compromise...
...meeting, the Corporation did not vote on Rudenstine's proposed compromise on the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), which would create a fund of alumni money to help support Harvard students' participation in MIT's ROTC program...
...administration should take a stand and completely reinstate ROTC. Harvard should establish its own ROTC program and fully fund it, rather than force students to travel all the way to MIT to do their training. The current policy represents discrimination against students who wish to serve their country...