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Needless controversy plagued the council this entire year. It voted without fanfare on divisive issues like expelling ROTC commissioning ceremonies from Harvard Yard, cutting funding for the Freshman Formal and supporting a multi-cultural student center, which many students oppose...
Meetings were spent condemning foreign nations, denigrating ROTC members and replacing "freshman" with "first-year"--a move which one female faculty member dismissed as "a non-issue." A favorite topic was gender equity. Councillors spent the entire year deploring the status of women at Harvard and their desire for more female leadership played a large role in electing Elizabeth A. Haynes '98 as chair of the student affairs committee...
...When general and admirals go to the President and say the policy should be changed, it will be," said Kurtis P. Wheeler '89, a captain in the marine reserve and student in the Graduate School of Education who served in Navy ROTC during his time as a Harvard undergraduate...
...should be doing everything you can to encourage [ROTC participants at Harvard]," he said...
...things were glossed over," said Sharmi S. Modi '99, a cadet in air force ROTC who attended the discussion...