Word: rotcs
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...marriages, and the living wage campaign for Harvard employees. We have also dealt effectively with on campus political issues such as the current policy on rape and sexual assault, and this week, we hope to continue that trend when the council navigates its way through a contentious debate on ROTC's status on campus...
...borrow a phrase from a friend, "the Undergraduate Council is atrocious." Or rather, it has proved its atrociousness in the recent Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) debacle, a debacle that, sadly, the campus has forgotten in its two-second attention span, a debacle that Dean Lewis, thankfully, recently quashed by indicating that ROTC's return to campus is nowhere near imminent. Nevertheless, I would like to ask two questions regarding the council's refusal Sunday night to reconsider the rescission of the ROTC Task Force Authorization Bill. 1) Whom does the council represent anyway? And 2) Since when did "compromise...
...even denounce the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. At the same time, the council apparently cannot grasp how the bill directly violates its own principles of non-discrimination and the Harvard wide policies that protect students of all minority status. By recommending that ROTC have recruiting privileges through the Office of Career Services, the bill endorses the practice of discriminatory recruiting on-campus. By recommending that Harvard adopt administrative oversight with the ROTC alumni fund, the bill asks that the University endorse the discriminatory disbursement of monies under Harvard's name. Both these activities can only...
...course, cadets deserve respectful treatment and access to their program. A ROTC shuttle service would have been acceptable, as would have been acceptable, as would have more of those "students service" initiatives that the council loves to extol. But the bill's supporters do not seem interested in negotiating ways of supporting cadets that do not blatantly endorse homophobic activities at the college...
Before the ROTC motion was defeated, Jeffrey A. Letalien '00 and John P. Marshall '01 proposed a "depoliticization declaration" as new business...