Word: rotcs
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...Undergraduate Council may donate $1000 to an independent fund proposed by President Neil L. Rudenstine last week to finance students in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), council President David L. Hanselman '94-'95 said yesterday...
Hanselman said he will make a motion at Monday's meeting of the council's student affairs committee to recognize Rudenstine's proposal as a good compromise and to offer financial support to the ROTC program...
According to Rudenstine's decision, the University will no longer directly pays for Harvard's participation in the ROTC program. Instead, the annual contribution of approximately $35,000 will come from unsolicited alumni contributions...
Professor of History James Hankins expresses a popular concern for the "people who are going to suffer if there's no ROTC at Harvard." The approximately 70 students on ROTC scholarships might indeed be left without support. Unfortunately, a far greater number of students are currently denied ROTC benefits simply because of their sexual orientation...
Harvard has yet to address the embarrassing truth that underlies the ROTC debate: if the military discriminated against heterosexuals, Harvard would long ago have served its ROTC ties. President Rudenstine's recommendation, though touted as a creative compromise, is just a creative way to conceal a compromise of principles. --Laurie Pane...