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...they came close. When model midshipman David A. Carney '89 revealed that he was gay, the military demanded that he return his scholarship money. At that point, the Faculty recognized that maintaining ties with ROTC represented a violation of Harvard's 1985 non-discrimination policy. But the Faculty stopped short of action. It pledged instead to cut ties with ROTC in two years, barring significant change in the military's policy toward gays...
Throughout the embarrassing saga, the Faculty relied on a bright hope and a false promise, praying that the election of Bill Clinton would make ROTC a moot issue. But Clinton's pledge to lift the ban went the way of most campaign promises. And the Faculty is still trying, by every means possible, to avoid taking a stand...
Harvard's administration must put an end to its cowardly dance with discrimination: Cut all ties with ROTC, effective with the Class...
Under close scrutiny, the arguments for keeping ROTC on campus--arguments we ourselves used two months ago--do not hold. It is easy to reduce the debate over ROTC to a quibble over technicalities, the very technicalities that have allowed the University to equivocate without losing face. What often gets lost in the squabbling is the matter of right and wrong...
...discrimination is decidedly, undoubtedly wrong. The military's policy only lingers because of lingering prejudice, which fosters ridiculous stereotypes and false assumptions. Were ROTC to discriminate against another group--against Black students, for instance, or against women--there would be no debate. The Faculty would toss ROTC out, without considering technicalities...