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Gather up the ammunition: It looks as though Harvard, reacting to the new "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy on gays in the military announced this July, is ready to start the battle over on-campus ROTC again this semester...
Without his ROTC scholarship, Pierce says, heand many others would not attend Harvard...
...ROTC instructors also argue that servingHarvard's connection with ROTC would hurt thecountry's military by depriving it of a source ofquality officers...
...Those characteristics that are so valuableabout a Harvard education are not going to bepresent in young officers," says Lt. Col. BucknerCreel, professor of military science at MIT. Creelsays, a Harvard student was the top-ranked cadetat this summer's ROTC training camp at Fort Bragg.Such students are "the Colin Powells of 25 yearsfrom now," he says...
...University's link to ROTC for many ofthese students is a reminder of a policy that barsthem based on their sexual orientation."Discrimination against gays is unacceptable,"says Dennis K. Lin '93-'94, co-chair of theBisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association...