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...addition, it recommended that Harvard stop commissioning ROTC cadets at Commencement ceremonies and encouraged "increased involvement...in the national debate" on gays in the military. A "committee or senior university officer" should monitor Harvard's relations with ROTC in the future, the report said...
Bill Clinton's election was hailed as the nail in the coffin of the ROTC controversy, and ROTC committee chair Sidney Verba '53, Pforzheimer University professor, said likely "the whole thing will go down in history...All the work I've done has been wasted...
...Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker said the vote could be seen as a "slap in the face" for Powell and said it "opens up a new area of discrimination, namely against those students who take part in ROTC." He also tried, and failed, to table the report...
Equating the loss of financial aid to ROTC students with the military's ban on gays "lacks a sense of moral proportion that strikes me as disgraceful," said Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah...
...vote sent a message, Knowles said, one noted by Rudenstine and himself. But the truth, admitted by nearly everybody involved in the drawn-out ROTC debate, is that pending a move by the Clinton administration, the issue is yet again in stasis...