Word: rotcs
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...vision for the Harvard community, the very least we expect is honesty. We neither expect that everyone will agree with us nor that they should. But John Voith’s attempt to pander to our respective organizations by clearly misrepresenting his ticket’s stance on ROTC is both dishonest in principal and harmful in practice. Regardless of who wins this election, and both our organizations agree that it shouldn’t be the Voith-Gadgil ticket, the least Harvard students expect from our next leaders is the backbone to stand up for their beliefs, whatever they...
Question: “Currently Harvard ROTC students are actually members of the MIT ROTC group and train there. If the U.S. Military were ask to form a ROTC chapter on the Harvard campus, would you speak up in favor of allowing a chapter, against it, or remain neutral? Why? Also, should the U.S. Military be allowed to recruit students on campus?” Voith-Gadgil’s Answer: “Yes to both questions. Were it not for the bravery and sacrifice of America’s Armed Services, this university would not be here...
Voith showed unqualified support for ROTC and said that he would co-sponsor a bill the following night, if it were introduced, inviting ROTC back to campus. Not once did he qualify any statement of support for ROTC or so much as mention Don’t Ask Don’t Tell...
...planning to join the Marine Corps. “It’s exciting to see so many people in uniform with the red-blood stripe down their leg,” said Joseph M. Kristol ’09, a Midshipman 4th class in the Naval ROTC. “It’s good to be around real Marines.” In a bow to their Business School surroundings, the traditional re-telling of the Corps’ history was presented in a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation. Marines have celebrated the birthday since 1921, when...
...Moreover, Harvard quartered George Washington’s troops in Massachusetts Hall, and the current university president’s home, Wadsworth House. Harvard’s affiliation with the military continued until 1969 when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to expel the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from campus in protest of the Vietnam War. At present, no branch of the armed forces is allowed to have an office on campus. While Harvard’s policy towards the U.S. military has become increasingly complex, issues such as ROTC recruitment, department of defense research grants, and support...