Word: rotcs
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When Lawrence H. Summers served as president, he addressed the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony each year to voice his support for Harvard’s future military men and women. This year, University President Drew G. Faust will follow in his footsteps by attending the commissioning ceremony on June 4, but she will also use the venue to speak out against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that currently prevents openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the military. In an interview last...
Colin J. Motley ’10, an HRC vice president, said that the idea for the bill came from informal conversations with ROTC members, and the list of proposed policy changes was developed in cooperation with leadership of the Republican and Democratic clubs and the Harvard ROTC Association...
...being politically neutral, Eliot House resident Andrew D. Fine ’09, who is a former Crimson editorial editor, pleaded the UC not to pass the bill because of its third clause, which “recommends to the President of the University that the commissioning of Harvard ROTC cadets and midshipmen continue to be permitted to take place on Harvard’s campus...
...ROTC was expelled from the Harvard campus in 1969 and the University continues to oppose its presence on campus because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prevents gay and lesbian individuals from serving openly...
...similar sentiment was expressed in the separate “DADT Act” which the UC passed in addition to the ROTC bill...