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...blunt way, the act forces Harvard to face the practical reality of its policy barring ROTC. Since the bill is aimed squarely at Harvard—seeking to inflict maximum economic consequences for its moral stance??the real question becomes, how much does Harvard value its policy of nondiscrimination? When the Department of Defense, brandishing the Solomon Amendment, threatened to withhold federal grants unless Harvard Law School allowed military recruiters on campus, the University capitulated and gave the recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination clause. It should not do so again. If the Senate approves the bill...
...Amsterdam, I’d hoped nothing would shock me—in fact, it was something of a goal. I had a sense that there was something inherently judgmental in shock at the spectrum of humanity. I’d decided that interest was a more appropriate stance??one that didn’t moralize and didn’t pretend to a categorical normality...
...back to rallies two years ago. In fact, SAS has consistently refused to formally co-sponsor an event (neither social nor dialogue) with HSI at least as far back as my first year in 1998, as was evidenced by the article “Harvard Students for Israel Clarifies Stance?? in The Crimson, Oct. 20, 2000 which chronicled HSI’s open invitation to SAS to change its policy. This time SAS’s excuse is that the proposed idea would be “completely social, fake and uncomfortable...
President George W. Bush has always portrayed himself as a proponent of free trade. The imposition of heavy tariffs on steel imports announced this week runs counter to his usual free trade stance??and is a mistake. The trade barrier, which levies an import tax of up to 30 percent, is reminiscent of the protectionism of America’s isolationist age just before the Great Depression, and it marks a regression in this nation’s attempt to form a new, open global economy. While economists and academics in the United States proclaim the benefits...
Secondly, the argument that Harvard’s refusal to fund ROTC programs for its students is somehow a principled “moral stance?? is asinine. If the University were really concerned about supporting an organization whose principles conflict with its own, it should immediately refuse to do any more business with the Department of Defense: no more applying for grants, no more consulting, no more admitting military personnel to study at the Kennedy School or to be visiting scholars, and no more accepting funding for research. The fact that Harvard chooses to follow...