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...ethnic studies efforts continue at Harvard, if the number of minority faculty increase, if President Clinton lifts or softens the gay ban that riles ROTC opponents, the internal contradictions of minority student groups may reduce the number of activists and the number of identity-politics issues...
Twenty-five years ago, interestingly enough, the issues were different. When the class of 1968 was in college, antimilitarism was a popular cause, and students questioned the level of involvement Harvard should have with the military establishment. Recent debate over ROTC does not focus on when Harvard should be connected to a military program it all, a consuming question in the late 1960's. Today those we oppose the ROTC program think Harvard should sever ties with an organization whose selective discrimination violates University policies...
Although the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been reluctant to do so, think Harvard should take a stand and dissociate itself from a discriminatory program. Until the military allows. Americans to serve in ROTC, Harvard shouldn't support that program. The University should send a message that intolerance is unacceptable, that it is un-American...
...Faculty approves the recommendations of the 1992 report on the status of ROTC. The vote may prevent Harvard students from participates in ROTC, as one of the report's recommendations calls for the university to "stop paying the MIT fee" for Harvard students to enroll in the program...
...recalls, it was some "relatively early event," perhaps National Coming Out Day, that brought her back to the BGLSA. She quickly got involved in BGLSA activities, becoming an at-large member of the board and helping organize protests against ROTC's presence at Harvard. She was elected co-chair in the spring...