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Contradicting her claims that there have been no Harvard-MIT negotiations about the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), MIT's Assistant for Government Relations said yesterday that "conversations are ongoing...
Gallop is a member of the MIT working group on ROTC, and said she would be familiar with any formal discussions. Although the two university presidents may be meeting, she said "[the working] group was not meeting around this issue...
...only other discussion [the schools have had on ROTC] is trying to work together to try to change the [Department of Defense] policy" on gays in the military, she said. those meetings involved several representatives of the two schools, including Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba...
During his tenure as dean, Jewett oversaw and influenced Harvard policy on such contentious issues as the date rape, housing choice, ROTC and alcohol consumption...
...order to exert any real pressure, Harvard must server its connection to ROTC. By affirming its own ethical stand against discrimination, the University would be sending an urgent message to Washington, and to the rest of the country. Harvard could credibly use its bully pulpit to decry the military's ban on gays as nothing more than a homophobic defense of the status quo, similar to another by-gone era, when the military's ban on Black Americans was nothing more than a racist defense of another status...