Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground-breaking period in Harvard's age-old history: established power was thrust aside in an institution which generally demanded--and received--respect for traditional authority. Many of the issues which this campus is grappling with today--minority representation in the Faculty, the University's continued affiliation with ROTC and the desire to assure individual rights without inviting victimization--first boiled to the surface, in dramatic fashion, during and after the takeover...
...military does nothing right. Whether it is sexual harassment or Marines blood-pinning each other, there is no question that in recent years the military has seen its share of problems. On campus, if I hear anything at all, it is yet another story about the controversy surrounding ROTC, an organization which violates Harvard's anti-discrimination policy due to the Department of Defense's "don't ask, don't tell" rule...
...started, as I remember it, when Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 raised the specter of ROTC, claiming that some of the candidates present at the BGLTSA meeting were supportive of the campus military organization that excludes gay people. Specifically, she charged that several of the candidates present were guilty of voting "no" on a council resolution last year that would have asked the administration to bar ROTC graduation services from Harvard Yard...
After the ROTC hit the fan, the candidates' speeches devolved into a discussion of their viewpoints on ROTC and gay people. All of the candidates, of course, argued that whatever their position on ROTC, they were still sensitive to gay and lesbian issues, that they were pro-gay rights, etc. The way many of the candidates were speaking, it was as if our homosexuality meant that we inevitably favored a gay students' center, gay rights, and kicking ROTC graduation exercises off campus...
...rights" mean. Some radical gay activists, for example, argue that the current focus on gay marriage is a capitulation to an institution that is inherently heterosexual, that gay people do not need and should not want conventional marriages. And we disagree over what needs to be done about ROTC, if anything...