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What message are we sending the intellectual elite if by providing ROTC we condone the sacrifice of our classmates’ civil rights? Perhaps in Turnbull’s world BGLTQ students don’t exist; perhaps they don’t count as part of the intellectual elite; or perhaps, since they only make up about 10 percent of the student body, their concerns and rights are of only secondary importance...
Alex Turnbull makes an important point in “Recognize ROTC, Recognize War” (Opinion, Oct. 4) that America’s intellectual elite should “be allowed to grasp what exactly is involved” in war. However, his conclusion that Harvard should allow ROTC to recruit on campus, despite its explicitly discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, displays callous disregard for the civil liberties of American bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer (BGLTQ) individuals...
...Officer Training Corps (ROTC) facilities on campus—said the legislation was specifically targeted at Harvard, which banished ROTC from campus 35 years...
...logical solution would be to encourage those who seek civil service and political careers to join ROTC in college. It is not the same as going to war, but it does give a student destined for high places some idea as to what is involved in armed conflict and is likely the only way people can find out what it is really like. With the squeamishness of the American media and the folly of embedded reporting, it is unlikely that people are going to find out for themselves through mainstream media outlets. Under current Federal Communications Commission guidelines the average...
Currently, ROTC is not a serious option for Harvard students. If you want to take part in the program you get shuttled off to MIT at the crack of dawn in order to keep Harvard’s ideological stance against discrimination intact, as if Harvard were somehow able to dictate terms to the federal government. I would like to have the section of my taxes devoted to the Farm Bill and the War on Terror remitted to me, but sadly we can’t pick and choose. Harvard has to accept that if it is in the business...