Word: verba
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...course to many, these choices--outlined in a report on ROTC drafted by a committee headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53--offered a false choice. Why not simply cut all ties, even if that meant that Harvard students couldn't participate? It's a matter of principle, after...
What this interpretation ignores is that there are more than just one set of rights involved. The right of homosexual students to serve is an important right and one we firmly support. But, as the Verba report recognized, to end the availability of ROTC altogether would infringe on the rights of those students interested in the military option...
...Verba's report demanded that the University cut all ties with ROTC by the spring of 1993. But Rudenstine delayed making a decision until last week...
...interim, student groups repeatedly demanded that the president take action on the issue. Last spring, with Rudenstine a full year past the Verba report's deadline, leaders of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association (BGLSA) and the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) presented the president with hundreds of petitions asking him to cut ties with ROTC...
When he acted, he found a solution that he called a compromise. It was pragmatic, and for now seems to have pleased both sides. While he recommended to the Corporation that the University continue funding ROTC, he attempted to meet the Verba report's demands by limiting that funding to designated alumni donations...