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...Faculty called on the Harvard president to end the University's $130,000 subvention to MIT and to seek "arrangements that would preserve the opportunity for individual Harvard students to participate in ROTC...
While Rudenstine appeared to have several options in order to cut those ties, he was in fact quite constrained. One option was to require ROTC students themselves to foot the bill. Department of Defense regulations prohibit any such requirement, however...
...course to many, these choices--outlined in a report on ROTC drafted by a committee headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53--offered a false choice. Why not simply cut all ties, even if that meant that Harvard students couldn't participate? It's a matter of principle, after...
What this interpretation ignores is that there are more than just one set of rights involved. The right of homosexual students to serve is an important right and one we firmly support. But, as the Verba report recognized, to end the availability of ROTC altogether would infringe on the rights of those students interested in the military option...
...that would be an injustice. ROTC is one of the principal paths of entry to the military for college students. Indeed, in an era of military cutbacks, it is the only way for many...