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...pulls at both our principles and our patriotic feelings. ROTC, which was originally kicked off campus in a climate of protest against the Vietnam war, is currently banned from Harvard due to the Clinton administration policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell?? concerning homosexuals in the military. The College’s policy on student groups specifically prohibits groups from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. We support the College’s policy and maintain that ROTC should not return to campus until the U.S. military stops discriminating...
...ROTC, Summers emphasized that ROTC’s leadership had no desire to return to Harvard, from which it has been banished from the campus since the early 1970s. Currently the military’s “don’t ask-don’t tell?? policy on gays excludes ROTC from campus under the University’s discrimination policy...
...late, there has been no shortage of sparring over whether ROTC—which is denied University recognition due to the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell?? policy—should be invited back to Harvard. But there is one thing all sides—even ROTC supporters—seem to agree on: keeping open gays out of the uniform is a discriminatory act. Witness, for example, the words of John F. Bash ’03, whose opinion piece on this page began with...
...United States military has an undeniable anti-gay bias. This fact is incontrovertible. Despite the imposition of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?? policy in the last decade, which has substantially reduced the problem, there remain rules that restrict and deter homosexuals from joining the armed forces. For instance, if a soldier is so much as seen with a romantic partner of the same gender off-duty, he or she can be discharged. This is wrong and has no place in a society, unlike those of which we have read...
...misguided,” said Stephen N. Smith ’02, a council member and former council presidential candidate. “No one would ever suggest that if we were to put a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell?? policy on any other group, such as Muslims or Jews, it would be reasonable or non-discriminatory...