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However, all Harvard students have the choice to cross-register for classes at MIT, or even other schools of the university, some of which are located in far more "inconvenient" locations. In choosing to join ROTC, students accept the commute as an inconvenience in exchange for the opportunity to serve as a cadet or midshipman, and this is certainly a noble choice. Similarly, students who wish to cross-register at another school accept the commute as a cost of participation. However, while gay and lesbian students are allowed to register for most classes at MIT, they do not have...
...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: accom- modating 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. DAVID CHAO '99 April...
...Undergraduate Council's bill to put a Harvard stamp of approval (even if it is a compromised stamp) on the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) makes it clear that the majority is unable to take into account the interests of minorities and often even themselves, resulting in a persistent democratic threat: a tyranny of the majority...
...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...