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...Harvard, by continuing to give money to MIT's ROTC program, is using University money to finance discrimination against its own students...
...Harvard's Faculty Council voted three years ago to terminate Harvard's relationship with ROTC in two years if the military ban on gays and lesbians was not lifted. This decision was reaffirmed last spring...
Over the past several years, universities across the nation have added "sexual orientation" as another criterion for which discrimination is forbidden in a admissions, participation in school activities, employment, etc. But this long-needed change has resulted in hypocrisy being practiced every day at universities that have ROTC programs for finance their students' participation in another university's ROTC program. At these schools, resources, facilities and opportunities that are available to heterosexuals are denied to gay, lesbian and bisexual students in clear violation of these universities' non-discrimination policies...
Several standard arguments are raised to justify the continued relationships between universities and ROTC. First of all, a typical non-discrimination policy allows exemptions where discrimination is important for, in Harvard's words, "job performance or course of study requirements." According to one argument, ROTC's discrimination is permissible because homosexuality is an impediment to military performance...
Another argument contests that by cutting ties with ROTC the University is denying educational opportunities to students who cannot afford school without ROTC scholarships...