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Rudenstine refused to take a stance on maintaining Harvard's ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). Many on campus had argued that the military's ban on homosexuals was in direct conflict with the University's policy of nondiscrimination...
Instead, the president appointed a committee, chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba, to make a recommendation on the University's funding of Harvard students enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ROTC program...
Verba's report demanded that the University cut all ties with ROTC by the spring of 1993. But Rudenstine delayed making a decision until last week...
...take action on the issue. Last spring, with Rudenstine a full year past the Verba report's deadline, leaders of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association (BGLSA) and the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) presented the president with hundreds of petitions asking him to cut ties with ROTC...
When he acted, he found a solution that he called a compromise. It was pragmatic, and for now seems to have pleased both sides. While he recommended to the Corporation that the University continue funding ROTC, he attempted to meet the Verba report's demands by limiting that funding to designated alumni donations...