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...Michael J. Arth '08, an Air Force cadet who was president of the Harvard ROTC association during the past year, took a more sympathetic view toward Faust and Bok, saying that he respected the president-elect's prior commitments and that most ROTC cadets will pay close to attention to what she does next year...
...June 8, The Wall Street Journal criticized the absence of Harvard's leaders at the ceremony. The ROTC program has been “mostly spurned by the school's administration” and that the graduating cadets' “honor and service deserve better from their academic tutors,” the newspaper wrote in an editorial. The Journal also praised Summers for having attended and spoken at the commissioning ceremony service in past years...
...understand that she couldn't make it this time, and we hope that she's in attendance next year,” Arth said last week. “We'll look into that as an indication of her support for ROTC...
While Summers declined to comment on whether he believed Bok or Faust should have attended the ceremony, he wrote in an e-mailed statement that he made an effort to attend the ROTC commissioning ceremonies because he considered it "very important to show institutional support for the students who were entering the armed forces...
Discontent with Harvard's support for ROTC peaked in April 1969, when students stormed University Hall to protest, among other grievances, ROTC's presence on Harvard's campus. In recent years, Harvard and other elite universities have barred military recruiters from their campuses due to the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy, which prohibits gay individuals from serving openly in the military...