Word: united
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...ROTC unit at MIT had students from Harvard, MIT, Wellesley, and Tufts - a pretty enlightened and educated bunch of people," she says. "Yet when the topic came to gays in the military, the level of anger and closed-mindedness I saw was shocking...
...tells the story of an MIT student who was in her company in ROTC for a semester. When the student came out to his unit commander at the beginning of his senior year, the Navy demanded he pay back the first three years of his full scholarship...
...successful military service? Most Harvard students would presume not, but both officers and scholars of military affairs have made an interesting case that it does. For instance, they argue that the sexual tension that would result from the presence of openly gay soldiers would constitute an unacceptable threat to unit cohesion. They contend the same logic that demands that heterosexual men and women be segregated in barracks and wash facilities ought to apply in some extension to the matter of homosexuals in single-sex units...
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...example, why couldn't they convert some of the Harvard-owned apartment rooms into off-campus housing for seniors, or even into a new satellite housing unit...