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...House of Representatives has its way, Harvard may soon face an important but difficult decision on its policy of barring the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program: make an exception in its long-standing anti-discrimination policy to allow the military to gain an official campus foothold, or lose heaps of federal funding. In this instance, although the cost to Harvard is potentially immense, the University has a responsibility to stand up for its principles. It must not be strong-armed by the federal government into providing for a blatantly discriminatory organization on campus...
...March 30, the House of Representatives approved the ROTC and Military Recruiter Equal Access to Campus Act of 2004 by a 4-1 margin. If passed into law by the Senate, as some politicos have predicted it will be before the November election, the bill stands poised to require schools to let ROTC through their doors. As the bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Christopher Cox, R-CA, a former Faculty member of the Harvard Business School, has noted, it “might just as well be called the Harvard Act” since most other schools have...
...blunt way, the act forces Harvard to face the practical reality of its policy barring ROTC. Since the bill is aimed squarely at Harvard—seeking to inflict maximum economic consequences for its moral stance—the real question becomes, how much does Harvard value its policy of nondiscrimination? When the Department of Defense, brandishing the Solomon Amendment, threatened to withhold federal grants unless Harvard Law School allowed military recruiters on campus, the University capitulated and gave the recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination clause. It should not do so again. If the Senate approves the bill...
David Clayman ’38, chair of Advocates for Harvard ROTC, leads a 1700-member group of faculty, alumni and supporters who are urging the University to offer the military greater support...
...Using ROTC as a hostage…serves no purpose,” Clayman said. “Why try to attack the very organization you’re trying to join...