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Thomas A. Gerace '93, the chair of the Committee to End Discrimination by Harvard, which was created to urge Rudenstine to cut Harvard's administrative ties to ROTC, says he believes the University will be closely involved in the alumni fund...
...Harvard administers the alumni money and writes checks out of the fund to MIT, ROTC activists say, the University is still funding ROTC in violation of its non-discriminatory policy...
...Rudenstine's proposal does indeed end the use of general funds for ROTC, but the fact that funds are held in a special account does not, in our view, change the conclusion," Gerace says. "The fact is, the subsidy of ROTC violates Harvard's non-discriminatory policy...
...fact, the Harvard general fund receives money from many sources, including alumni in paying money to MIT's ROTC program," he says, "and that fund was found being non-compliant, so I don't see the difference...
...Some ROTC opponents say Rudenstine's plan it a move toward change, but doesn't fully answer their concerns...