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ROTC is a good program. It provides a service to students and our government that only such a program could. It is patriotic and develops a specific style of leadership. It is also discriminatory, and the council's action is nothing less than a direct affront to Harvard's discrimination policy and an endorsement of homophobia in general...
ROTC is a program in direct defiance of Harvard's policy of non-discrimination and also an organization whose presence on campus would be threatening and offensive to at least one specific minority group. By approving of ROTC, the council has validated homophobic discrimination...
...last Sunday's council meeting, the ROTC debate was framed in terms of "accommodating" cadets who are "inconvenienced" by their participation in an ROTC program at MIT. The authors of the bill introduced it as one which addresses "student services" rather than political issues...
...Harvard administration should stand by the principle of non-discrimination that it asserted five years ago in barring ROTC activities and recruitment on our campus. In considering this issue, think about which is more valuable: accommodating the inconveniences of ROTC students who have participated in MIT's ROTC program successfully for the past 30 years or upholding the principle of non-discrimination which protects us as members of the Harvard community...
...found locally in Massachusetts that there was a 13 percent increase [over 1997] in serious injuries reported that victims suffered," said David M. Shannon of the Violence Recovery Program (VRP) at the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston...