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...same time that we endorsed Rudenstine's plan last November, we questioned the autonomy of the proposed ROTC fund. According to the President, Harvard would administer unsolicited donations from alumni in order to pay the annual subvention to enable students' participation. While ROTC would be nominally separate from Harvard's regular fundraising activities, we questioned whether it would be so in practice...
Consequently, we asked the administration to further distance itself from ROTC funding by appointing an independent administrator. And so we are pleased that Acting President Albert Carnesale has since amended Rudenstine's proposal, creating an independent charitable trust to continue ROTC funding. According to Carnesale, appointed alumni, and not the Harvard administration, will be responsible for raising and tending the annual subvention that allows Harvard students to enroll in MIT's ROTC program...
Carnesale further cleared up Rudenstine's proposal by permitting the ROTC commissioning ceremony to continue at Commencement. By allowing students to receive their commissions during commencement, the University recognizes the importance of ROTC to participants' college experience. It does not amount to an endorsement of the program's discrimination...
...Harvard must be careful to preserve its separation from the program elsewhere. The spirit of the new policy is that ROTC is essentially a private extracurricular activity, neither condoned nor prohibited by the University...
...While ROTC opponents may have wanted Harvard to go further, to do so would have detracted from campus diversity and discouraged future students interested in military careers from coming to Harvard. After five protracted years of discussion, Harvard has not ended this nationwide debate, but it has acted wisely and fairly to all parties involved...