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...give that an “A” for asinine. Ditto the other UC candidates, none of whom disagree with keeping ROTC away. Yes, the military discriminates against gay students. Yes, this is a remarkably idiotic—not to mention ineffective—policy. No, it should not continue. But severing every relation Harvard has with the military is a disproportionate response—one might call it an excessive use of force. That would be like those wackjob conservatives who dismiss Harvard because of its association with commies, jews, and pinko liberals. It?...
What’s also unfair is how this has become a Rorschach test for supporting gay rights on campus, whereas the ROTC issue really isn’t about gay students at all. If it were, you’d see more antipathy toward the Internal Revenue Service when it swindles gay professors and staff from getting a marriage deduction according to the tax code. There would also be more antipathy towards Islamic fundamentalism—the regimes of which routinely torture and even execute gay people—instead of the complacent multicultural mollycoddling worshipped on campus...
...among rabid pacifists. The writer John Dos Passos ’16, for example, felt compelled to volunteer for “gentleman’s ambulance corps”—until his father vetoed it. During the First and Second World Wars, Harvard’s ROTC units used to train under the elms of Harvard Yard...
...ROTC at Yale, five years in the Navy—how does the atmosphere in D.C. compare to the environment of the military...
...campus protest over the presence of Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC) on campus came to a head with a forceful student takeover of University Hall. The protesters’ occupation ended only after over 400 policemen charged the building early one morning and forcibly–and at times violently–removed the several hundred students in the building. Between 250 and 300 people were arrested, and nearly 75 students were injured, according to The Crimson’s reporting from that...