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...yearbook to include ROTC in this year’s edition. ROTC—originally banished from campus during the Vietnam War—has been barred since 1994 because the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell?? policy violates Harvard’s non-discrimination rules. Currently, Harvard students who wish to participate in ROTC must travel to MIT, but their costs are paid in part by alumni donations that former President Neil L. Rudenstine arranged through indirect channels...
...University’s subsequent arrangements for funding through outside channels form a principled position. Those who wish to join ROTC can—with the knowledge that the school supports their service but not the “don’t ask, don’t tell?? policy. The position is consistent with the University’s policy toward other student groups, such as final clubs, which were cut off from the University in the mid-1980s because they did not allow women to join. The University should maintain the current arrangement with ROTC...
However, should Harvard decide to fund ROTC, it ought to donate matching funds to the Servicemembers’ Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a group which helps to fight “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?? and which defends men and women in uniform who are discharged under that policy...
...able to serve their country. This notion of inclusion in service is, in fact, the very sentiment that underlies the issue of ROTC funding. Therefore, should the University choose to extend funding, it ought either to fight “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?? by lobbying the Department of Defense and Congress, or it should fund a group that will...
...travel to MIT, which provides an ROTC unit for Tufts and Wellesley as well, it does not officially fund the costs associated with the program because of a Faculty decision regarding the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell?? policy, a policy Summers said many might consider discriminatory. Instead, the University requested that alumni fund the program without going through official channels...