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In recent years Harvard has had a strained relationship with the military, stemming from its decision to ban ROTC from campus in 1969—a ban that the University has continued out of opposition to the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell?...
But in her adress yesterday Faust repeatedly emphasized the University’s strong connections to the armed forces that predate the controversy.
President Barack Obama has said that he plans to repeal the policy, meaning that ROTC might be able to return to the Harvard campus. Currently, students at the University who participate in ROTC must commute to MIT to train.
Faust’s decision to speak at commissioning ceremonies has garnered strong reactions from both sides of the issue. ROTC graduates said yesterday that they felt supported by Faust—who also gave them a book by West Point instructor Elizabeth Samet about teaching literature through war and...
But two years later, the once-heralded banners emblazoned with “Green is the New Crimson” now go unnoticed in Harvard Yard, and faculty and students worry that Harvard’s efforts thus far will only have a limited impact in leading the fight against...