Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduate Council's recent "depoliticized" bill supporting the return of the Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC) was a disappointing finale to an otherwise healthy and vigorous campus wide political debate. While declining to take any substantive political stance on the program itself--and by extension, the military's discriminatory don't-ask-don't-tell policy--the council instead passed a watered-down resolution from a strictly "student-services" perspective...
Although this move was intended to be a compromise between the opponents and supporters of ROTC, the council undermined its own credibility by sidestepping the fundamental issue. Moreover, we are deeply disappointed that despite the waffling language of the bill, the council saw fit to endorse ROTC--however tentatively--on the Harvard campus. Fortunately in the case, it seems unlikely that the College will act on the council's recommendation...
...ROTC students currently receive a mixed message, celebrated during Commencement in a Yard commissioning ceremony, yet barred from postering or otherwise acting like any other student group on campus...
...ROTC midshipman Jacqlynn K. Duquette '00 says she understands the University's stance against "don't ask, don't tell," but finds its ramifications unfair...
...recent debate, Air Force ROTC cadet Joe C. Lucas '00 said traveling to MIT for training was the least problematic part of the University's policy...