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...wake of Harvard's invitation to Gen. Colin L. Powell to speak at Commencement, the full Faculty may vote tomorrow on the recommendations of the ROTC committee, which include a suggestion to discontinue paying the costs of supporting Harvard students enrolled in MIT's ROTC program...
After a hot debate over the ROTC committee's report during a meeting in November, the Faculty took no vote. But the University's invitation to Powell, who has expressed support for the military's ban against gays, has again put the report in the spotlight...
During a Faculty meeting earlier this month, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson proposed that the Faculty meeting reopen discussion of the ROTC report. She will move at tomorrow's Faculty meeting that the professors endorse the report's recommendations...
...Discrimination against homosexuals. The other issue by which we know Colin Powell is his opposition of allowing gays to serve in the military. Sure enough, the second most hotly disputed issue of campus during the last four years has been the issue of homosexual rights. The ROTC issue, homophobic graffiti and vandalism, the infamous Peninsula issue, the theological dispute between Reverend Gomes and Conservative Christians, and the BGLSA's graphic postering campaigns all helped to keep this issue in the campus consciousness...
...minority of our community, the issue is more than one of political principle; to Harvard's gay, bisexual and lesbian students, faculty and staff, it is an issue of personal identity and personal safety as well. While much progress has been made towards insuring homosexuals equal civil rights, the ROTC issue in particular has not yet gone away. In part, we have Colin Powell to thank for this. And while our administration offers a hefty dose of principled rhetoric to address both the ROTC issue and the Powell invitation, it has not yet allowed such considerations to affect its actions...