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...Students should ask for a refund on tuition dollars that fund ROTC...
Harvard currently contributes $130,000 a year to MIT's ROTC program. That amounts to $20 a year for each of Harvard's 6,500 undergraduates. Because of ROTC's ban on openly gay, lesbian and bisexual students, this means that every Harvard undergraduate spends $20 a year of his or her own money to finance such discrimination. While that may be fine with some Harvard students, we believe that the majority of Harvard students find the military's ban on gays and lesbians repugnant and would not choose to finance such discrimination...
...that reason we invite members of the Harvard community to write or call President Neil L. Rudenstine and ask that their share of Harvard's financing of MIT's ROTC program be refunded...
...Harvard's underwriting of MIT's ROTC program problematic? There are several reasons...
...ROTC, as part of the United States military service, bans openly gay men and lesbians from proudly serving their country...