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Despite Harvard's statements that negotiations are underway, an MIT official this week said she knows of no discussions between Harvard and her school regarding the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program...
Last February, Rudenstine told the Faculty that he would delay ending payments to MIT for Harvard students' participation in MIT's ROTC program. A report approved by the Faculty last year recommended that the University end those payments because of discrimination against gays in the military...
According to several faculty members, Rudenstine said he was attempting to negotiate an agreement with MIT to allow Harvard students to continue in the ROTC program without the $120,000 compensation Harvard now pays each year...
...cost, however, is coming under greater scrutiny. A 1992 General Accounting Office report said the academies, which are free to the student, except for a commitment to serve for five years in uniform, cost about $250,000 a graduate. ROTC costs about $60,000 apiece and usually requires a four- or five-year hitch. OCS costs about $25,000 each, and its service obligation varies. The academies cost more because each is a "four-year- immersion experience," says David Palmer, retired three-star Army general and West Point superintendent from 1986 to 1991. "That's very different from ROTC, where...
...found no proof that academy graduates make better officers than those commissioned through ROTC or OCS. And promotion statistics raise doubts about the academies too. From 1972 through 1990, the share of academy graduates among generals and admirals fell from 43% to 33%, while those from ROTC rose from 5% to 41%. Under congressional orders, starting in 1997, academy graduates will have to compete against their ROTC and OCS colleagues for "regular" commissions, meaning academy graduates will initially hold "reserve" commissions, offering less protection against involuntary discharges. That's likely to depress interest in the academies even more. "Why should...