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...third argument claims that, in order to be consistent, a university that severs ties with ROTC must also cut all ties with the Department of Defense--including the receipt of research grants...
With respect to the second argument, it should be emphasized that financial concerns are not exclusive to ROTC cadets. This argument exploits a common concern regarding financial resources. Furthermore, at least at Harvard, a large part of the discrepancy between ROTC's scholarships and the University's means-tested financial aid could be made up by transferring funds used to support ROTC to the University's Financial Aid fund. This would eliminate most financial concerns...
...allocating grants. Moreover, in order to protect academic freedom, a university has no right to tell researchers from where they may receive their funds, no more than it has the right to tell students from which groups they may receive scholarship money. The key word here is "receive." With ROTC programs, the University is giving its resources to a discriminatory organization. That is exactly the opposite of the case with research grants...
Still, all these arguments fail to address the real issue. Either the University's policy on discrimination must change or ROTC must go. Yes, the military will lose talented people. But universities that continue to associate with ROTC give implicit approval and explicit support to an organization that already kicks out talented people every...
...believe that Harvard should fund education, not discrimination. We hope students will join us by asking for a refund of their share of Harvard's payment to MIT's ROTC program. Toward this end, we have already collected over 500 undergraduate signatures on a refund petition that we will present to President Rudenstine today...