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Universities that don’t allow Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs on campus could lose millions in federal funds under legislation passed by the House of Representatives last week...
Members of Congress singled out Harvard for rebuke, sharply criticizing a 1969 vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to ban ROTC on campus...
...This bill…might just as well be called the Harvard Act—because it squarely addresses the scandal of Harvard University and other schools banishing ROTC and military recruiters rom campus, while cashing Uncle Sam’s checks for billions of taxpayer dollars each year from the Department of Defense and other federal agencies fighting the global war on terror,” said Cox, the fourth-ranking member of the House Republican leadership...
Under the legislation, Harvard could lose all funding from the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and a handful of other federal agencies unless the University allows the military the option of establishing an ROTC unit on campus. Currently, Harvard students participate in ROTC programs at nearby MIT. The University does not fund the program directly, instead letting anonymous private donors pick...
...Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, wrote in an e-mail that the Pentagon has “not—to my knowledge” requested permission from the University to set up a ROTC station on campus...