Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the fall just beginning, activists on campus dream about the battles awaiting them. Which issues will share the spotlight this year? Although time will reveal all, we can be sure about one thing: The fight over ROTC is hardly over, especially after the deans rejected last April's pro-ROTC vote in the Undergraduate Council...
Harvard's arrogance toward the military and its men and women is an important facet of the ROTC debate which must be addressed. Not merely the standard left-wing, anti-military sentiment of many students, but the subtler arrogance of the contemporary Harvard mind--an arrogance which infects even the pro-ROTC side of the debate...
...reading the September issue of Harvard Magazine. It was morning, I could see my peaceful corner of the Hudson Highlands out the window and I could hear birds chirping and the occasional car go by--I was clearly far from sophisticated Cambridge. I was struck by two quotes about ROTC in Janet Tassel's "The 30 Years War: Cultural conservatives struggle with the Harvard they love." The first was from Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00: "ROTC being diminished on campuses means that the higher level officials in the military come from the academies or southern schools...
Addressing Harvard's ROTC controversy--and the ire of some conservatives who feel that Harvard's federal funding should be cut because several Harvard faculties ban ROTC--Bradley said the problem would no longer exist in his administration...
...Gays should be able to serve openly [as ROTC officers] on the Harvard campus because there'd be a change in the federal policy," he said...