Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...institution which prides itself on being the premier educational institution in the world and one that values toleration, diversity and "rational discourse," I am baffled that the Undergraduate Council would recommend that the University ban ROTC ceremonies. Perhaps some of the undergraduates need remedial tutoring on the meaning of toleration and diversity. Is the appropriate response to percieved "discrimination" to retaliate by discrimination and punative measures? I doubt it. Can't we do better than this...
...better idea--one that might foster dialogue. Allow the ROTC ceremonies and then invite the new graduates who are entering the service of their country to tip a beer at John Harvard's with those who disagree with the present governmental policy. Let us not forget that this policy is one over which the ROTC students have no control. While I can't say that the ensuing discussion would be entirely rational, it would be more in keeping with our claimed appreciation for diversity and tolerance than the intolerant and punitive measures being proposed by the Undergraduate Council...
...compromise approved last year fully and fairly brought an end to the ROTC debate. The Harvard Corporation approved a new relationship between the University and ROTC that effectively ended Harvard's financial ties to the program by appointing independent alumni to administer funding...
...Harvard has already separated itself from the funding for ROTC, and ROTC students have long gone to MIT for their training. Individual ROTC members should not be punished further because of their group membership alone. Having the commissioning ceremony on campus is an appropriate memorial to the hard work the cadets have done over four years. The ceremony does not amount to an endorsement of the program's discrimination...
...move the ceremony off campus would be to deprive the ROTC participants of an honor they have rightfully earned. We urge Dean Lewis to veto the proposal in order to maintain the spirit of the original compromise...