Word: rotcs
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Three days after the Undergraduate Council gave its support to greater accommodation of students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said yesterday no policy change is likely anytime soon...
...April 4 letter, Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00 tries to deflect criticism of his administration, specifically regarding the recent ROTC bill. But in defending himself, Seton seriously mischaracterizes both the nature of the debate and the content of the final bill...
...most disturbing characteristics of the recent council debate, and the current administration, are not that the council is truly depoliticized. Rather, the council tries to disguise conservative political statements in apolitical language. The ROTC bill clearly contradicts Harvard's nondiscrimination policy and is a strong political statement that military recruitment on campus is more important than protection of homosexuals from discrimination at Harvard...
That bill, which passed in an amended form, asks the University to allow ROTC to openly recruit on campus, to help oversee the funding for the program and to provide shuttle service for ROTC students...
...Harvard administration should stand by the principle of non-discrimination that it asserted five years ago in barring ROTC activities and recruitment on our campus. In considering this issue, think about which is more valuable: accommodating the inconveniences of ROTC students who have participated in MIT's ROTC program successfully for the past 30 years or upholding the principle of non-discrimination which protects us as members of the Harvard community...