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Meanwhile, proponents of keeping ROTC at Harvard are again bringing up the same misleading arguments that failed to convince anyone four years ago. Back then the campus was flush with indignation that the military had thrown out one of Harvard's own, Naval ROTC officer David E. Carney '89, and demanded that he return $51,000 in ROTC scholarships. Back then, the issue was clearly discrimination...
Even The Crimson, which long called for the severing of ROTC ties, recently reversed itself and declared that refusing ROTC scholarships would hurt Harvard students...
...common tact is to accuse the anti-ROTC camp of hypocrisy. After all, goes this argument, Harvard accepts all sorts of scholarships limited to specific groups: Cuban-Americans, students from a particular town, female science students, etc. Isn't this the same as the ROTC discrimination...
...ROTC is not intended to promote the presence of any particular group; its purpose is to train college students to be military officers upon their graduation. This opportunity is naturally limited to those who meet the military's description of those fit for duty...
Moreover, the harm to students is grossly exaggerated. To begin with, present ROTC students would no doubt be grandfathered out of any new policy (as they were in 1969). Some then argue that would be Harvard students would be forced to go elsewhere without ROTC...