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...ROTC were to disappear at Harvard, prospective students would have to choose between a Harvard education and a desire to serve their country. It's no surprise that members of the staff have no interest in military service themselves; if they did, they might see the injustice in taking away a career option for future students...
Finally, the students who comprise Harvard's ROTC contingent by and large oppose the ban on gays themselves. As members of the military, they are more likely than other officers to demand a liberalization of its policies. Thus, ironically, in the staff's overzealous attempt to do what is right, it would suppress the efforts of those students who dream of joining, and changing, the military...
...seemed like the perfect compromise--a convenient way for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to avoid taking a stand on ROTC. The University would stop paying MIT to run the ROTC program and thus further remove itself from the specter of the ban on gays in the military...
This is further proof that Harvard needs to take a firm position on the military's bigoted policy against homosexuals. It's time for Harvard to do what it should nave done years ago: dismantle Harvard's off-campus ROTC program, for as long as the ban on gays remains...
Harvard has, in the past, flirted with the idea of making a decision about ROTC. But the University has never taken a final stand on the program...