Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They say that endorsing ROTC violates both the council constitution and Harvard policy, which each contain clauses prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
ROTC--like the United States military--has a well-defined policy of institutionalized discrimination against gays and lesbians. Gays are explicitly forbidden from participating in ROTC, and are regularly discharged from the armed services if they proclaim their sexual orientation. Several witnesses have stated that during a summer orientation session, one MIT recruit with an earring was forced to stand outside and yell "I am a faggot" for several hours...
This discrimination is alone enough to disqualify ROTC from both support of the University and the endorsement of the council. Both have explicit policies against abetting discrimination on grounds of gender or sexual orientation...
Morally, the question is cut and dried. If gays and lesbians are to be acknowledged as equal members of society, they must be treated equally by the government. And if they are to be equal members of the student body, they cannot be barred from activities because of their sexual orientation...
Activists have charged that Sunday night's decision to call for the reinstitution of ROTC violated a provision in the council's constitution that obligates it to oppose discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...