Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your April 19 article on ROTC ("MIT Faculty Ask ROTC Program to Admit Gays") may give readers the mistaken impression that the MIT Faculty proposed that MIT guarantee the scholarships of all students enrolled in ROTC at MIT. Our Faculty proposed that MIT replace the scholarships of MIT students who have been discharged from ROTC due to their sexual orientation. We did not propose that MIT guarantee scholarships of Harvard or Wellesley students who participate in ROTC at MIT. --Lawrence S. Bacow, Chair of the MIT Faculty
Needless controversy plagued the council this entire year. It voted without fanfare on divisive issues like expelling ROTC commissioning ceremonies from Harvard Yard, cutting funding for the Freshman Formal and supporting a multi-cultural student center, which many students oppose...
Meetings were spent condemning foreign nations, denigrating ROTC members and replacing "freshman" with "first-year"--a move which one female faculty member dismissed as "a non-issue." A favorite topic was gender equity. Councillors spent the entire year deploring the status of women at Harvard and their desire for more female leadership played a large role in electing Elizabeth A. Haynes '98 as chair of the student affairs committee...
...change the council by joining the group next year. But don't count on it. There is no place on "The New UC" for thoughtful, sincere members. Imagine being elected next October and walking into your first council meeting. Look to your left: You see a white-male-hatin', ROTC-condemnin', Rudenstine-insultin' crusader. Look to your right: You see a raving lunatic. You'll soon feel out of place. And you'll have 25 meetings...
...things were glossed over," said Sharmi S. Modi '99, a cadet in air force ROTC who attended the discussion...