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Council President Noah Z. Seton '00 described the Dunster situation much more optimistically...
...hear birds chirping and the occasional car go by--I was clearly far from sophisticated Cambridge. I was struck by two quotes about ROTC in Janet Tassel's "The 30 Years War: Cultural conservatives struggle with the Harvard they love." The first was from Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00: "ROTC being diminished on campuses means that the higher level officials in the military come from the academies or southern schools; as a result there isn't that liberalizing force in the military." The second is from Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington: "I absolutely favored the retention...
Normally I would ignore such talk, chalk it up to harmless Harvard egotism, and be thankful that these gentlemen support ROTC in their own way. But the unaffected atmosphere of home brought their arrogance into focus. Seton implies that Harvard students can do a better job with the military than those academy boys and those God-forsaken southerners. Huntington believes the My Lai massacre in Vietnam could have been avoided had a Harvard man been in command--that judgment and values are by-products of elite conditioning in academic Utopia...
...really has any idea of what the pre-randomization system was," said Noah Z. Seton '00, Undergraduate Council president...
communication open, with more students choosing a team of doctors and nurses as their primary care physician, hopefully people's care overall will get better," Seton said...