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...BEEN THE ISSUE for the Class of '93, ROTC, Colin Powell, Leonard Jeffries, the Women's Street Theater Project and the Coalition for Diversity all fall under the umbrella of identity politics--the push for the recognition and protection, in the curriculum and in student life, of differences in race, gender, religion and sexual orientation...
...Rudenstine finished his first year as president, he watched the May 1992 ROTC deadline creep closer. The Faculty was busy avoiding taking action, electing instead to allow six-month extension on a report on the issue...
...deadline passed, and finally in November the report, including its recommendation that the University discontinue paying MIT $130,000 to cover the costs of Harvard students enrolled in MIT's ROTC program, reached the deaks of faculty members. But still the Faculty cowered before making a decision, shuttling the report back and forth from Faculty Council and full Faculty meetings. The opinions of Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, who said he opposed the Faculty taking any stance on such a political issue as the gay ban, held sway...
Time charged on, and still the Faculty hadn't voted. Rudenstine was getting anxious that Harvard would never vote. Although the ultimate decision on ROTC lay with Rudenstine and the Corporation, he wanted public support before he simply made a unilateral decision against the program. Time, Rudenstine thought, to take action...
Rudenstine, however, had no such intentions. By inviting Powell to speak, he hoped to finally get the Faculty off its collective derriere for the vote against ROTC...