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...Faculty Council has been embroiled in controversy over the ban since their recommendation nearly three years ago that the University sever all ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), currently administered to Harvard students through M.I.T., because of its regulations prohibiting gays and lesbians in its ranks...
Joan R. Cheng '95 and Haewon Hwang '95 were elected co-presidents of the group at a three-hour meeting before more than 70 people in Sever Hall. They defeated three other candidates and take over immediately as leaders of the organization...
According to HMC President Jack R. Meyer, Rubin has not yet decided whether or not to sever his ties with the management company...
...then he and his team were put to the test. One after another the signals came: Chelsea's private school, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's reluctance to sever his ties to his lucrative clients, the corporate sponsorship of the Inaugural hoopla. He nominated a core of advisers that included 14 lawyers, many of them multimillionaires, all of them earning more than $100,000 -- a feat matched by only 3% of all Americans. His inner circle belongs to a class defined not by its inheritance but by its graduate degrees. At least five, like Clinton, studied in England, and half...
Rudenstine and Harvard are concerned with the issue of gays in the military because of its implications for Harvard's ROTC program. A University committee issued a report last fall recommending that Harvard officially sever ties with the program because of its discriminatory policies...