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...Paul E. Mawn ’63, the chairman of Advocates for Harvard ROTC and a retired Navy captain, said in an interview yesterday that ACTA “may not understand what the realistic target is” and that the goal should be official recognition by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, not the opening of a ROTC branch at Harvard...
...reality is that there are so few students at ROTC anyway, so tomorrow if Harvard begged and pleaded the Pentagon to bring it back on campus, they wouldn’t,” Mawn said. “What has evolved around the country is core sites like MIT that service several different schools. MIT has the critical mass and good facilities and classrooms for the courses and drilling and other activities. There is no critical mass at Harvard...
Mawn added that he would rather see the Faculty officially recognize ROTC by sending the money it receives from ROTC scholarships—an amount that totals in the hundreds of thousands of dollars—to MIT to pay for overhead and other costs. He noted that Harvard used to make the payments but cut them off in the early 1990s. Since then, a group of alumni have been giving money to MIT to cover the administrative costs...
Harvard students interviewed yesterday were split on the issue of whether ROTC should be allowed to return to campus...
...understand why Harvard would feel that way,” said Aaron R. Scherer ’11, an ROTC cadet. “But it just makes it really inconvenient for the students who have to do ROTC...