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Harvard continues to have a difficult relationship with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)—it supports students who serve but not ROTC itself, due to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of discrimination against gays. In this context, the recent Undergraduate Council bill that encourages cooperation between professors and military officers to make relevant Harvard courses fulfill military course requirements is a positive step—it will help cadets without undermining the University’s moral position...
Brian Smith and other supporters stressed that the bill did not require any financial support of ROTC from the University—which the Faculty has expressly prohibited...
...Oluseyi A. Fayanju ’05 said that, in the case of lotteried courses, encouraging ROTC students to enroll for credit would limit courses’ availability to the rest of the student body—effectively diverting resources to the cadets...
Fred Smith also joined Simon in questioning the purpose of the resolution. Since professors can already discuss their course syllabi with whomever they chose—including ROTC officials—the only purpose of the bill was to make a “political” statement, he said...
Earlier in the year University President Lawrence H. Summers, who has raised questions about what he described as the “unorthodox” alumni funding for cadets who train at MIT, had asked the council to take a position on ROTC...