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...Faculty Council has been embroiled in controversy over the ban since their recommendation nearly three years ago that the University sever all ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), currently administered to Harvard students through M.I.T., because of its regulations prohibiting gays and lesbians in its ranks...
...Three years ago each house had its stereotype. Now [Adams is] not much different from any other house," the resident, an ROTC student, said. "What we like the most about it is that the house lets you get away with anything. At half the parties everyone's completely naked...
...Scouts, despite their admirable public service record, because they do not allow gay members or scoutmasters. Even had the Connecticut branch of the Boy Scouts wanted to change its policy due to these local pressures, the national headquarters would not permit it. (This is the same dilemma that the ROTC branches face when boycotted by universities...
...other. Harvard, for example, grants official recognition and support to student groups that define their membership by exclusion of one gender (Radcliffe Union of Students), race (Asian-American Association) or sexual orientation (Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association). If this does not violate the non-discrimination rule, neither should ROTC or the Boy Scouts...
...experience as a Navy ROTC midshipman was a very limited taste of military life. Except for the hectic boot camp at Quantico, I lived like any other college student. Regular active-duty military personnel live full-time in barracks racks, ships and submarines. And although all military personnel go through some kind of boot camp, subsequent service life is generally more normal (a relative term), allowing the common worries and concerns of life to creep back...