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...will meet with President Summers this spring to discuss this very issue and intend to request he allow/enable us to take this next step, necessary to double our enrollment by 2008,” Baker told Advocates for Harvard ROTC, a group led by alumni and retired military officers, in a November 2004 speech...
...potentially bruising battle over the future of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at Harvard was postponed this year after the chief of the Army’s battalion at MIT backed away from plans to request office space in the Yard...
Summers has emerged as an outspoken backer of the officer training program since his arrival at Mass. Hall in 2001. But, last July, he said in a private meeting that he was “not prepared” to make the argument for ROTC space on campus, according to Baker...
Some faculty members are likely to object to any attempt to establish a ROTC office at Harvard. “I wouldn’t wish military service in Iraq on anyone,” Paul F. Hoffman, the Hooper professor of geology, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “So I am opposed to military recruitment on campus or anywhere else for the purpose of perpetuating the occupation...
...unfortunate that no organization with this role currently exists, especially since Harvard prides itself on its diversity. It trumpets its firm and morally appropriate backing of affirmative action and non-discrimination, going so far as to bar University students from participating in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) on campus because ROTC’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy unfairly discriminates against gays...