Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While we empathize with and understand the staff's concern for the Harvard students who participate in ROTC, we believe that Harvard's non-discriminatory policy supersedes the privilege of holding a commissioning ceremony on campus...
...staff acknowledges that the military's ban on openly gay cadets is unfair, and yet it would still allow ROTC to use precious Harvard Yard space during Commencement Week. This strikes us as inconsistent and wrong; Harvard should not give any kind of support to organizations or programs that discriminate against its own students...
...Undergraduate Council's recent recommendation to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to move the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony at Commencement off campus is misguided and overwrought. We understand the council's reasons: leaving it on campus could be construed as a violation of the University's non-discriminatory policy. Yet holding the ceremony off campus ignores the importance of ROTC to participants' college experience...
...debate over ROTC at Harvard dates back to 1969. In that year, during the height of the Vietnam War, a group of Harvard students and faculty protested ROTC's presence on campus because of its ties to the military. As a result, ROTC was pushed off campus, and Harvard students who wanted to participate in it commuted...
...this decade, the protests shifted to different grounds. Students and faculty alike lamented the military's policy on homosexuals, and a 1990 report by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences called on the administration to sever ties with the ROTC program because it discriminated against gays and lesbians...