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...reporting" of the debate surrounding the ROTC issue was inexcusably biased. On Monday, April 24, your front page featured the screaming headline, "Dissent Threatens to Undermine UC," for no apparent reason except that Undergraduate Council had finally taken a stand on an issue which seems to be contrary to the underlying sympathies of the Crimson staff. True, there was a vocal minority which expressed its dissent, but that in no way calls into question the UC's right to take a stand on a controversial issue...
...ironic that the protest began with "Let us speak!" Let me speak. Let me tell you, all of you, including any of you that protested that night, that the UC is a forum with a procedure to guarantee in a fair manner that people can speak, that they will not be shouted down, or that the process be so disrupted that meetings will have to be adjourned. Let me tell you that when the meeting had been forced to adjourn, I was at first elated by this Pyrrhic victory, thinking something to the effect of "that will show them." Show...
Despite this, I remain hopeful if angry. Undoubtedly not all future UC meetings will be as controversial as the one that occurred Sunday, but for any that do, I remind the protesters of this: you may not grab Crimson headlines as effectively, but protesting outside is a valid option. I would like to hear you outside protesting as well as being a part of the discourse inside the UC meetings. What we--and I speak in terms of the undergraduate community--should not allow is total disruption of the proceedings. It is not fair to us, you or the undergraduates...
Viewed this way, the debate resolves itself differently, and it does not, as it did at Sunday's UC meeting, have to turn into a referendum on the very principle of ROTC programs. Once we realize that Harvard ROTC members aren't really being hurt by Harvard not having a program on campus, the issue looks like this: on one side, there's a 15-minute bus ride every once in a while for 3 percent of Harvard's students, which is apparently "inconvenient." On the other, there's an institution that openly and systematically discriminates against a minority which...
ROTC is a philosophical and moral morass that we need not mire ourselves in. Let those who benefit from its discrimination take the bus. Wade Lagrone UC Representative Dunster House