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...these couples deserve the opportunity to marry. Another area in which homosexuals are continually denied rights is the United States army. This year, there was a great amount of attention paid to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. Though we supported the University making it easier for ROTC students to cross-register at MIT, allowing military science courses to appear on transcripts, and improving the financial aid policy so that ROTC grants do not preclude students from receiving Harvard funds, we remained firmly opposed to the national “Don’t Ask, Don?...
...spoken admiringly of military service: Summers took enormous flack early in his tenure for saying that the military should have a larger role on campus, and Faust, a self-described military historian, has said that she has “enormous respect” for those who participate in ROTC...
...Similarly, student opinion seems considerably more favorable of the military than it once was. Where undergraduates once stormed University Hall to have ROTC thrown off campus, a recent poll conducted by ROTC advocates found that three-fifths of students support officially recognizing the program. And even those who remain opposed to the military are far more moderate in their approach than their counterparts of a generation past. During one of its principal demonstrations against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, the Law School’s gay-rights organization...
...course, any official recognition of ROTC will actually mean little to Harvard. As it currently stands, ROTC officials do not want to open an office at Harvard, largely because the number of prospective cadets is small. Recognition would be largely symbolic: dropping the official statement opposing ROTC, noting ROTC participation on transcripts, and releasing funds to cover administrative costs...
...symbols matter, just as Summers and Faust have shown by speaking at the ROTC commissioning ceremonies. If Congress repeals “don’t ask, don’t tell” and Harvard fully recognizes ROTC, the military and academia might finally heal a divide that is now four decades...