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Harvard students in the military's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program have not been able to take their classes on campus since 1969. That year, under pressure from anti-war student protestors and the Faculty, the University agreed to discontinue the program. Since then, cadets have had to travel to MIT to take their classes. Up until 1994, Harvard helped subsidize the MIT program, but now the University doesn't even do that; the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays violates Harvard's anti-discrimination policy...
...shouldn't lose to this ball club," said Harvard Assistant Coach Gary Donovan after the loss to Columbia on Saturday. Coach Joe Walsh was attending to a family matter and did not travel to New York...
...shouldn't lose to this ball club," said Harvard Assistant Coach Gary Donovan after the loss to Columbia on Saturday. Coach Joe Walsh was attending to a family matter and did not travel to New York...
Currently, Harvard students who wish toparticipate in ROTC must travel to MIT to do so.The University banned ROTC from campus in 1969,when tensions over the Vietnam War enraged studentactivists. In 1994, the University stoppedpayments to MIT for the ROTC program, citingconcerns about discrimination against gaystudents...
Ballard was the first SF writer to realize that there was something basically lunatic about space travel. Ballard never predicted events or devices; instead, he described future sensibilities--how it might feel, what it might mean. A bizarre contemporary event like the paparazzi car-crash death of Princess Diana is perfectly Ballardian. No flow chart, no equation, no profit projection could ever have predicted that, but if you've read Ballard, you swiftly recognize the smell of it. I daresay that's the best the SF genre will ever do--and no more should ever be asked...